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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture by David Brownlee Publisher Comments This exhibition and its catalogue represent the first extensive scholarship devoted to Louis I. Kahn's life and work since his drawings and office files became readily available for study.... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Portland's Streetcars: (Images of Rail) by Richard Thompson Publisher Comments Street railways arrived early in Portland and made lasting social and economic contributions that are still apparent in the layout and character of the city's neighborhoods today. During the 1890s, streetcar lines spread rapidly into the West Hills and... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Production of Houses by Christoph Alexander Publisher Comments As an innovative thinker about building and planning, Christopher Alexander has attracted a devoted following. His seminal books--The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, the Oregon Experiment, and The Linz Cafe--defined a radical and... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $38.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski Review "[A] gem of a book....[I]n marvelously clear prose, he gives valuable insight into the limits of engineering and its practitioners." Library... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Architecture Pack by Ron Van Der Meer Synopsis An interactive chronicle of the history of world architecture combines dramatic three-dimensional, pop-up illustrations of the world's architectural masterpieces, accompanied by working models of key building components, color illustrations, and an audio... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon: 1850-1950 by William Hawkins Publisher Comments The majority of Portland's classic houses are still standing, a rich legacy and essential link to a time of stunning architectural accomplishment. This lavishly illustrated volume features more than 300 residences representing twenty-three distinct... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi Publisher Comments "Learning from Las Vegas" created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Northwest Style Hc by Ann Wall Frank Publisher Comments With its lush forests, rugged coast, and long rainy season, the Pacific Coast has spawned a style that is informal, organic, and above all eclectic. Northwest Style captures the spirit and diversity of this region's architecture, landscape, and lifestyle... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Architecture on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka Publisher Comments Sarah Susanka contends that people are naturally drawn to intimate spaces. Large structures inspired by outdated patterns tend to result in houses that just don?t work. In The Not So Big House, she proposes clear guidelines for creating homes that serve... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's by R A Scotti Publisher Comments In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter's Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Frank Lloyd Wright: Master Builder by Bruce Broo Pfeiffer Publisher Comments This book presents twenty-five of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s. Published in association with... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $1.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greene & Greene: Masterworks by Bruce Smith Publisher Comments In the first decades of the 20th century, Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene almost single-handedly defined the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in America as the architectural firm Greene & Greene. The only full-color survey of the firm's... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing people's attitudes about convenience, decor, and technology in home design and furnishing. 10 black-and-white illustrations.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Drosscape: by Alan Berger Publisher Comments Do you really know what is under that new house you just bought? How about what lies beneath the neighborhood playground? Was that ¿big box¿ retailer down your street built over a toxic site? These are just a few of the worrisome scenarios facing us... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $12.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori Publisher Comments The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena. Their subjects range from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping by Harvard Design School Graduates In Collaboration With Rem Koolhaas Publisher Comments "Not only is shopping melting into everything, but everything is melting into shopping." Sze Tsung Leong Harvard Design School's Project on the City is a graduate thesis program that examines the effects of modernization on the urban condition. Each... (read more) Your price $125.00 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Airport Terminal 2ND Edition by Brian Edwards Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. Contemporary... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price $68.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House by Victoria Kastner Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-234) and index.... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $32.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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