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  • Building Community, Keeping the Faith by Peterson, Fred W.
    Fred W. Peterson

    Building Community, Keeping the Faith

    Conveys an understanding of the vernacular architecture in the parish and the German-American culture that infused it with meaning.Author: Fred W. PetersonISBN-10: 087351369XISBN-13: 9780873513692Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/1998Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 7.82w x 0.51d
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  • House Born of Mud by Gates, William N.
    William N. Gates

    House Born of Mud

    This is a story of the struggle to create beauty. A novice may find it useful in building an adobe house-how to mix the mud, how to grade a pipeline, how to tell a two-by-six from a one-by-ten: such details abound. But above all,...
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  • The Architectural Ornament of Diocletian's Palace at Split by McNally, Sheila
    Sheila McNally

    The Architectural Ornament of Diocletian's Palace at Split

    A magnificent treasure house for a study in decoration, no other extant Roman monument has such rich examples of ornament from a single building campaign. McNally grabs the opportunity to consider the functions of rare fragments in situ to find a grand decorative scheme...
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  • Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology by Fritsch, Al
    Al Fritsch

    Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology

    Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond. It is also the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the most basic technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, to this specific region. Authors Al Fritsch and...
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  • Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain by Grindrod, John
    John Grindrod

    Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

    A captivating exploration of Britain's most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome. "A love letter to contemporary buildings and a fantastic account of recent British history, rich in humour." NINA STIBBE "Brilliant, encyclopaedic, funny and often cutting." DANNY DORLING...
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  • Living in Morocco. 40th Ed. by Stoeltie
    René Stoeltie

    Living in Morocco. 40th Ed.

    Though it lies just across the Mediterranean from Europe, barely a stone's throw from Spain's southernmost tip, Morocco couldn't possibly be farther away. With its mountainous and desert landscapes, labyrinthine souks, delectable cuisine, exquisite rugs and textiles, vibrant mosaics, fragrant odors, mesmerizing music, and...
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  • The Housing Design Handbook: A Guide to Good Practice by Levitt, David
    David Levitt

    The Housing Design Handbook: A Guide to Good Practice

    Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent or...
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  • Rare Birds, True Style: Extraordinary Interiors, Personal Collections & Signature Looks by Naylor-Leyland, Violet
    Violet Naylor-Leyland

    Rare Birds, True Style: Extraordinary Interiors, Personal Collections & Signature Looks

    The private realms of well-known creatives reveal how unique personal style can color the home with a sense of history, autobiography, and, above all else, magic. This lively book celebrates unique and inspiring British style and those who own it. Spanning generations--from Nicky Haslam...
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  • Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 8 by Meier, Richard
    Richard Meier

    Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 8

    This is Rizzoli's eighth volume in the definitive series of monographs on the work of Richard Meier, one of America's most acclaimed architects. Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 8 vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. Thirty residential, commercial, and...
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  • Parisian by Design: Interiors by David Jimenez by Dorrans Saeks, Diane
    Diane Dorrans Saeks

    Parisian by Design: Interiors by David Jimenez

    A beautiful apartment in Paris is something we all dream of. A bohemian retreat, full of character and charm. Here, designer David Jimenez inspires us with his interiors while sharing his secrets for how to decorate like a Parisian. Interior designer David Jimenez has...
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  • Living in Bali. 40th Ed. by Lococo, Anita
    Anita Lococo

    Living in Bali. 40th Ed.

    Loved by travelers for its lush tropical scenery and charming people, Bali is one of the most magnificent places on Earth. Spirituality and nature are integral parts of everyday life for the Balinese, so one can easily see why the island's traditional architecture has...
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  • Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica by Philogene-Heron, Adom
    Adom Philogene-Heron

    Still Standing: The Ti Kais of Dominica

    Still Standing tells the story of the traditional wooden homes (known as ti kais) of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean. This gorgeously illustrated book pays tribute to these humble buildings that have withstood hurricanes and earthquakes since the end of slavery. Often ignored and...
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  • Modern Container Architecture by Hart, Aidan
    Aidan Hart

    Modern Container Architecture

    - Container architecture is fresh on the market, full of artistic sense, and liked by the public - This book includes many innovative descriptions and color images of converted containers - An excellent reference for container-centric designers, and those aspiring to enter the field...
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  • Designing Tall Buildings: Structure as Architecture by Sarkisian, Mark
    Mark Sarkisian

    Designing Tall Buildings: Structure as Architecture

    This second edition of Designing Tall Buildings, an accessible reference to guide you through the fundamental principles of designing high-rises, features two new chapters, additional sections, 400 images, project examples, and updated US and international codes. Each chapter focuses on a theme central to...
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  • Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate: An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production by Schwartz, Chad
    Chad Schwartz

    Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate: An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production

    This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environment - place, material, and assembly. These catalysts provide the organizational framework for a collection of essays discussing their significant influence on the...
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  • 1 BHK House Plans As Per Vastu Shastra: (100+ Different Sizes of 1 BHK House Plans Inside) by Pathi, As Sethu
    As Sethu Pathi

    1 BHK House Plans As Per Vastu Shastra: (100+ Different Sizes of 1 BHK House Plans Inside)

    This book is all about House Plans as per Vastu Shastra. In this book, you get 100+ Different sizes of 1BHK house plans as per Vastu Shastra principles. In this book, you will get the best ideas to make your dream house. You can...
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  • Knole: A Private View of One of Britain's Great Houses by Sackville-West, Robert
    Robert Sackville-West

    Knole: A Private View of One of Britain's Great Houses

    The Sackvilles have inhabited Knole, one of Britain's greatest houses, for more than four hundred years. Robert Sackville-West, the thirteenth generation of the family, takes the reader on a personal tour of this "calendar house," with its legendary 365 rooms, fifty-two staircases, and seven...
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  • Ultimate Book of Modern Farmhouse Plans: 350 Illustrated Designs by Design America Inc
    Design America Inc

    Ultimate Book of Modern Farmhouse Plans: 350 Illustrated Designs

    A collection of 350 of today's newest and most popular modern farmhouse designs with open, functional floor plans and simple, striking exteriors, Ultimate Book of Modern Farmhouse Plans is the one-stop shop for anyone looking to find their dream home. Carefully chosen and curated,...
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  • Eco Homes Of The World by Doak, Amy
    Amy Doak

    Eco Homes Of The World

    Travel the world and meet 14 people living an eco friendly, sustainable life. From a giant greenhouse on a Norwegian island in the arctic circle to a cave house in southern Spain...from a small farm in southern Australia to an apartment in Ho Chi...
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  • Housing as If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for the Planning of Medium-Density Family Housingvolume 4 by Marcus, Clare Cooper
    Clare Cooper Marcus

    Housing as If People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for the Planning of Medium-Density Family Housing Volume 4

    From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies. Signs of life...
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  • Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology by Terrenato, Nicola
    Nicola Terrenato

    Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology

    The Roman villa is a classic icon of Western culture, and yet villa can be used to cover a multiplicity of ideas, experiences, and places. In the late Republic and early Imperial periods, villas are inseparable from elite lifestyles, providing a prestigious setting for...
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  • Shelter by Kahn, Lloyd
    Lloyd Kahn

    Shelter: 40th Anniversary Edition

    Read the definitive, complete guide to shelters--more than 300,000 copies sold!Shelter is so amazing, so revolutionary, that the best way to describe it is with one word: everything! It's a history of architecture, a do-it-yourself (DIY) guide, a scrapbook, and a collection of essays...
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  • Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues by Baeten, Guy
    Guy Baeten

    Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

    This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts. It explores displacement as a prime act of housing injustice - a central issue in urban injustices. With international case studies from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Spain,...
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  • Eco Houses by Publications, Loft
    Loft Publications

    Eco Houses

    Author: Loft PublicationsISBN-10: 1632205955ISBN-13: 9781632205957Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2015Pages: 400Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.85lbsSize: 7.30h x 7.40w x 1.50d
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  • Architect's Reference Manual: Residential Architectural Practice by Shingleton, Gerald
    Gerald Shingleton

    Architect's Reference Manual: Residential Architectural Practice

    Author: Gerald ShingletonISBN-10: 1425903169ISBN-13: 9781425903169Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2005Pages: 484Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.97d
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  • Building for Boomers: Guide to Design and Construction by Schriener, Judy
    Judy Schriener

    Building for Boomers: Guide to Design and Construction

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Design and Build Housing for the Boomer GenerationThis unique resource provides the latest housing data, options, and trends...
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  • Shared Walls by James, Diana E.
    Diana E. James

    Shared Walls

    The 1900 edition of Polk's Seattle City Directory listed four apartment buildings. By 1939, that number had grown to almost 1,400. This study explores the circumstances that prompted the explosive growth of this previously unknown form of housing in Seattle and takes an in-depth...
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  • Romancing the Home: Stylish Interiors for a Modern Lifestyle by Manger, Stewart
    Stewart Manger

    Romancing the Home: Stylish Interiors for a Modern Lifestyle

    Stewart Manger is regarded for his bespoke interiors in which exquisite craftsmanship and a classic-meets-modern flair. This rising star's first monograph showcases his imaginative ways to create vibrant and stylish rooms. Having apprenticed with celebrated New York interior designers such as David Easton, Bunny...
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  • Recovery from Disaster by Davis, Ian
    Ian Davis

    Recovery from Disaster

    Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery-providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives-generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. On average 650 disasters...
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  • Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt: Supercrit #1 by Rattenbury, Kester
    Kester Rattenbury

    Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt: SuperCrit #1

    The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major...
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  • The Roman House in Britain by Perring, Dominic
    Dominic Perring

    The Roman House in Britain

    This authoritative and original work sets the results of recent archaeological research in the context of classical scholarship, as it explores three main aspects of Romano-British buildings: * general characteristics of form and structure* the ways in which they were built and decorated* the...
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  • Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World by McKay, Alexander G.
    Alexander G. McKay

    Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World

    This attractively illustrated book surveys Roman domestic architecture from the time of the Etruscans to the late Roman Empire.In Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World, Alexander G. McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates, and palatial buildings, and he pays particular attention to...
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  • Timeless: Classic American Architecture for Contemporary Living by Ahearn, Patrick
    Patrick Ahearn

    Timeless: Classic American Architecture for Contemporary Living

    Award-winning architect Patrick Ahearn treats readers to an exclusive tour of the timeless classical homes he's created in some of New England's most affluent communities, along the way revealing the unique, site-sensitive philosophy, point of view and principles that allow him to seamlessly balance...
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  • Villa Design by Toromanoff, Agata
    Agata Toromanoff

    Villa Design

    Surrounded by a magical flair, villas have been the gleaming diamond of residential design since ancient times, characterized by generosity, representation and individuality.This classic form of habitation is a synonym for architectural distinctiveness with the nimbus of a refined way of living and sophisticated...
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  • The Evolution of Home: English Interiors for a New Era by Sims-Hilditch, Emma
    Emma Sims-Hilditch

    The Evolution of Home: English Interiors for a New Era

    English interior design is respected throughout the world, and Sims Hilditch is at the forefront of understanding how decoration and practicality can work hand in hand. Explore the firm's many projects and see how interiors have evolved to embrace new ways of living. Emma...
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  • Experiments with Life Itself: Radical Domestic Architectures Between 1937 and 1959 by De Canales, Francisco Gonzalez
    Francisco Gonzalez De Canales

    Experiments with Life Itself: Radical Domestic Architectures Between 1937 and 1959

    Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile,...
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  • Container and Modular Buildings: Construction and Design Manual by Dörries, Cornelia
    Cornelia Dries

    Container and Modular Buildings: Construction and Design Manual

    Prefabricated housing is a pressing issue--for those looking for affordable homes as well as for refugees fleeing wars or natural disasters. In common with politicians, architects were caught unawares by the largest wave of migration since the end of the Second World War. However,...
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  • Give Me Shelter: Architecture Takes on the Homeless Crisis by Borges, Sofia
    Sofia Borges

    Give Me Shelter: Architecture Takes on the Homeless Crisis

    Give Me Shelter documents the work of the MADWORKSHOP Homeless Studio at the USC School of Architecture and their solutions for tackling the Los Angeles homeless crisis through design, compassion, and humanity. The book features exclusive content from leaders in the field including Michael...
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  • Cabin Fever: Sheds and Shelters, Huts and Hideaways by Boyer, Marie-France
    Marie-France Boyer

    Cabin Fever: Sheds and Shelters, Huts and Hideaways

    Author: Marie-France BoyerISBN-10: 0500015759ISBN-13: 9780500015759Publisher: Thames & HudsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1993Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 9.37h x 8.25w x 0.72d
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  • The Monocle Book of Homes by Brûlé, Tyler
    Tyler Brûlé

    The Monocle Book of Homes

    Good homes are places where lives unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, and friends share meals. They're also spaces to find some solitude--a quiet corner to read a book or have a Saturday afternoon nap. Homes need to do it all--they sustain...
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  • The Modern A-Frame by Rahn, Ben
    Ben Rahn

    The Modern A-Frame

    Midcentury spaces made new: A-Frame homes from rustic to ultra-modern, mountain retreats to seaside getaways.The A-Frame home surged in popularity in the 1950s, and has captured the public's imagination with its playfully modern, steep-sloping roofline ever since. The Modern A-Frame celebrates seventeen diverse accounts...
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  • A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Pollan, Michael
    Michael Pollan

    A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams

    "A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace." --Chicago Tribune A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work "A room of one's own:...
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  • Patina Homes by Giannetti, Steve
    Steve Giannetti

    Patina Homes

    Patina style imbues Giannetti client homes in a variety of architectural styles.For anyone who has loved the Giannetti books about Patina Farm, this book continues the aesthetic in a variety of styles.Steve Giannetti's architectural designs springboard from his image of ultimate beauty--a place where...
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  • The Architecture of Happiness by De Botton, Alain
    Alain de Botton

    The Architecture of Happiness

    The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of...
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  • Cabin Porn: Inside by Klein, Zach
    Zach Klein

    Cabin Porn: Inside

    Learn to make your own quiet place somewhere with this inspiring journey inside tranquil cabins and handmade homes, from the creators of the wildly popular Cabin Porn phenomenon. Cabin Porn began as an online project created by a group of friends to inspire their...
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  • The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon by Stahl, Bruce
    Bruce Stahl

    The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon

    The official biography of a midcentury modern architectural gem and the family that made it their home. The Stahl House--envisioned by owners Buck and Carlotta Stahl and designed by architect Pierre Koenig--has been an icon of midcentury modern architecture since its construction in the...
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  • Case Study Houses by Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
    Elizabeth A. T. Smith

    Case Study Houses

    The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern homes that could be both easily replicated and readily...
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  • Resident Dog (Compact): Incredible Homes and the Dogs That Live There by England, Nicole
    Nicole England

    Resident Dog (Compact): Incredible Homes and the Dogs That Live There

    In this stunningly photographed book of architecturally superb houses--many of them architects' own homes--we see how the presence of a dog brings warmth and life to the most dramatic spaces. From midcentury raw brick to a penthouse apartment, gracious Edwardian to Scandinavian modern, from...
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  • The Poetics of Space by Bachelard, Gaston
    Gaston Bachelard

    The Poetics of Space

    A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard's seminal work brims with quiet...
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  • Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses by Bradbury, Dominic
    Dominic Bradbury

    Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses

    The most complete in-depth survey of global Mid-Century Modern homes ever published - more than 400 stunning homes from 40 countries, designed by more than 290 of the world's greatest architectsThe love of Mid-Century style is at an all-time high, with a steady flow...
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