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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America
by Rosenbaum, Alvin
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- First Edition
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- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780471144304
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A$426.62
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Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1993. The fascinating parallel narratives of three men who influenced the era between 1920 and 1950-- Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ford and Franklin D. Roosevelt--are interwoven with provocative details about other lives, historic events and personal insights to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have shaped modern America. Describes how the architect's vision failed and succeeded and how… Read more about this item Item Price
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LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Reference Guide
by USGBC
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 2008
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- Paperback
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- 9781932444131
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Washington, D.C.: U.S. Green Building Council, 2008. The LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance Rating System provides a tool for building owners, managers and practitioners to maximize the operational efficiency of their buildings, while minimizing environmental impacts. For each credit, the LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M Reference Guide provides: overview and points per credit, summary of reference standard (where… Read more about this item Item Price
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Retrofitting Buildings for Energy Conservation
by Meckler, Milton
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- Second Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780881731835
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Hygiene, Colorado, USA
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Lilburn, Georgia: Fairmont Press, 1994. This comprehensive and highly acclaimed design handbook focuses on upgrading buildings to meet the energy requirements and new standards for the 21st century. Containing new data and case studies, it provides practical tips on commissioning buildings and applying the latest heating, ventilation and air conditioning strategies. Analyses of centralized versus distributed fan systems, how to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Critical Path
by Fuller, Richard Buckminster
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- Very Good
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- First Edition, Second Printing
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780312174880
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Hygiene, Colorado, USA
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A$860.48
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern… Read more about this item Item Price
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Space 478
by Sang-Leem, Lee; Hyun-Sik, Min; Eun-Young, Yi; Siza, Alvaro
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- 2007
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Hygiene, Colorado, USA
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A$180.77
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Seoul, Korea: Space Magazine, 2007. Detailed text contains topics covering architectural news, urban issues- power of disused railroad sites, Seoul Greenway, Stuttgart 21, the High Line; international competition for the Dongdaemun World Design Park & Complex; architects- Min Hyun-Sik and Yi Eun-Young; art exhibitions;critique design and photography; etc. 180 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear.. Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 4to - over… Read more about this item Item Price
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Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta
by Hersey, George L
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
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- 9780262081214
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Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1983. The great palace of Caserta, near Naples, probably the largest building erected in Europe in the eighteenth century, became an archetypal expression of absolute monarchy. It was begun in 1752 for Carlo di Borbone, King of the Two Sicilies, who worked closely with its chief architect, Luigi Vanvitelli. Although Vanvitelli was one of the most… Read more about this item Item Price
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Some Dorset Country Houses: A Personal Selection
by Cecil, David
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- Fine
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- Reprint
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780946159314
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Dorset, England: Dovecote Press, 1988. Detailed text presents Lord David's personal selection of seventeen of Dorset's historic and picturesque country houses, including Cranborne Manor, Herringston, Bettiscombe, Eastbury Park, Encombe, Melbury, Kingston Lacy, Mapperton House, Sherborne Castle, Smedmore, Purse Caundle Manor, Bingham's Melcombe, Came House, Waddon Manor, Wolfeton, Stepelton House, and Sandford Orcas Manor. 135 pgs. Illustrated with over 150 watercolors,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Washington on View: The Nation's Capital Since 1790
by Reps, John W
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- New
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- First Edition
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- 1991
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- Hardcover
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- 9780807819487
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Hygiene, Colorado, USA
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Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Few histories of urban planning are visually appealing as well as scholarly, but the expert Reps has created a successful blend of well-written text and 172 handsome illustrations, mostly reproduced as plates. Spanning 1790 to 1985, the book is divided into 77 folios, each consisting of descriptions and criticisms drawn from… Read more about this item Item Price
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The New Urban Landscape
by Martin, Richard
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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- Paperback
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- 9780962491603
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A$216.93
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USA: Olympia & York, 1989. This catalogue documents the art and architectural installatiions in "The New Urban Landscape" exhibition held at New York's World Financial Center in 1988, and contains a bewildering collection of arcane stories, cryptic essays, impressionistic photographs, and even a five-foot fold-out collage. The exhibition successfully addressed the ever-changing urban environment through images, music, and dance. 131… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
by Drexler, Arthur
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- First Edition
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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- 9780262040532
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New York: Museum of Modern Art/ MIT Press, 1977. Classic comprehensive text presents a detailed analysis and examination of the philosophy of the Beaux-Arts school of architecture, whose two-hundred-year history culminated the body of ideas and buildings against which the modern movement rebelled. Based on the doctrines of architecture formulated by the French Academy during the eighteenth century, the Ecole… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Temple for Byzantium: The Discovery and Excavation of Anicia Juliana's Palace-Church in Istanbul
by Harrison, Martin & Runciman, Steven
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1989
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- Hardcover
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- 9780292781092
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Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1989. Comprehensive text presents a detailed record of the discovery and archaeological excavations of the Church of St. Polyeuktos, and immense Palace Church erected in Constantinople in the sixth century A.D. by the Byzantine Princess Anicia Juliana. The illustrattions include photographs taken on site during the excavations and also comparative works of art and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jean Nouvel
by Boissiere, Olivier
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- Second Revised Edition
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- 1996
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- 9783764353568
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Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 1996. Scholarly monograph presents a comprehensive and systematic survey of Nouvel's buildings and projects, including Nemausus in Nimes; the Institut du Monde Arabe; and the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Jean Nouvel is among the most prominent and extraordinary architects of our time, his works combine a unique sense of poetry with the latest technologies. 208 pgs. Illustrated.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Castillos De Espana: Castles of Spain
by De Lozoya, Marques
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- First Edition
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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Barcelona, Spain: Salvat Editores, S.A., 1970. Comprehensive text presents a detailed history of the castles of Spain. Includes an alphabetical index of 107 individual castles, and an index of the castles within the particular province. Contains 107 full-page color photographs of each of the castles. Frontispiece. Approximately 200 pgs. Text in Spanish. Tiny scuff on the blank margin of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sir Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses
by O'Neill, Daniel
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780823073610
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New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1981. Comprehensive text presents a critical analysis of one of Britain's most famous and controversial architects- Edwin Lutyens, and traces his prolific career and reveals aspects of his architectural theory by focusing on his country houses. Topics include: Lutyen's background and influences; his work derived from the vernacular; his association with the noted landscape… Read more about this item Item Price
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C.F.A. Voysey: An Architect of Individuality
by Simpson, Duncan
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780823074839
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New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1981. Comprehensive preminent monograph on Voysey's architecture, traces the progress and development of Charles Voysey's career and features major buildings as well as unbuilt projects. Includes coverage of the establishment of Voysey's practice; early experimental designs for both furniture and houses which laid the groundwork for his mature style; Voysey's most prosperous years during… Read more about this item Item Price
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Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion
by Siry, Joseph M
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780521495424
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Scholarly text examines the Unity Temple in light of Wright's earlier religious architecture, his methods of design, his innovative construction techniques, particularly the use of reinforced concrete, which was here exploited and deployed for the first time. The Unity Temple is treated as a work of art that embodies both Frank Llloyd Wright's theory… Read more about this item Item Price
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Marco Fidolini: Atmos E Thanatos: Energia-Fabbrica-Technologia Dipinti 1981-1982
by Macacchi, Dario; Fidolini, Marco
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- Limited/Numbered First Edition
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- 1983
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- Hardcover
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Firenze, Italy: Edizioni Il Ponte, 1983. Atmos and Thanatos contains the extraordinary works of the Valdarnese painter, Marco Fidolini, inspired by electric power stations. Fidolini associates two aspects of the contrast of dualism (fascination and repulsion) in his works to the Freudian theory of Eros and the instict of death. Atmos being the symbol of steam, a component of power… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of Lincoln Minster
by Owen, Dorothy
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780521254298
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Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. This is an illustrated volume of specially-commissioned studies of the history of the cathedral foundation of Lincoln which traces its historical development, architectural evolution and musical history from its post-Norman foundation to the present day. The book synthesises the findings of modern scholarship and presents an important and comprehensible interdisciplinary survey for anyone interested… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Architectural History of Scotland: Scottish Architecture from the Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation 1371-1560
by Fawcett, Richard
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- First Edition
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780748604654
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Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. Comprehensive text deals with the late 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, surveying and analyzing the range of ideas that gave Scottish late-Gothic architecture its distinctiveness. Includes a detailed overview of the individual building types from cathedrals and religious houses to royal palaces and towerhouses to artillery fortifications. 386 pgs. Illustrated with photographs, engravings, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Maisons En Bois: Wooden Houses
by Miller, Judith & Merrell, James
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- As New
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- As New
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- First Edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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- 9782082019545
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Paris, France: Flammarion, 1998. This book celebrates the simple beauty of authentic wooden houses. Les intérieurs de ce type d'habitation se déclinent en une multitude de styles, du style colonial au style rustique, en passant par les styles western et shaker. The interiors of this type of housing is available in a variety of styles, from colonial style to western… Read more about this item Item Price
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