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  • The First Passive Solar Home Awards by U. S. Department of Energy
    U. S. Department of Energy

    The First Passive Solar Home Awards

    This book reviews the 162 passive solar home designs chosen for awards, providing drawings and descriptions. It also discusses selection of solar alternatives, commonly-made thermal mistakes, construction details, energy calculations, and more.Author: U. S. Department of Energy, Et AlISBN-10: 1410224961ISBN-13: 9781410224965Publisher: University Press of...
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  • Village and Farm Cottages by Cleaveland, Henry W.
    Henry W. Cleaveland

    Village and Farm Cottages

    One of the most important architectural pattern books, originally published in 1856. Contents: The House Considered in its Influence on the Occupants The Value of a Permanent Home Home in the Country The Village The Choice of a Lot The Adoption of a Plan...
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  • American Architects and the Single-Family Home: Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau by Tucker, Lisa M.
    Lisa M. Tucker

    American Architects and the Single-Family Home: Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau

    American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects' Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces,...
    $220.00
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: American Architecture in the Depression Era by Zipf, Catherine W.
    Catherine W. Zipf

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: American Architecture in the Depression Era

    New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable MentionFrank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater. The book reinterprets the history of this iconic...
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  • An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture by Loudon, J. C.
    J. C. Loudon

    An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture

    Ranging in coverage from humble cottages to grand villas, this encyclopaedia was compiled by the Scottish landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843). Its ambition, as stated in the introduction, was 'to improve the dwellings of the great mass of society'. Hundreds of types of...
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  • The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the Parsonage to the Palace by Kerr, Robert
    Robert Kerr

    The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the Parsonage to the Palace

    After Scottish architect Robert Kerr (1823-1904) published this book in 1864, he was given a commission to build what would become his best-known work, Bearwood House, in Berkshire, for the then proprietor of The Times of London, John Walter. Kerr gives a thorough explanation...
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  • Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellor's Residence: North Carolina State University 1928-2012 by Little, Margaret Ruth
    Margaret Ruth Little

    Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellor's Residence: North Carolina State University 1928-2012

    Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellor's Residence brings you inside the original 1928 Chancellor's Residence at 1803 Hillsborough Street to share the vision and the family life of each of the university's leaders, from President Brooks to Chancellor Woodson. Just as the glass...
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  • Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 3, Southern England by Emery, Anthony
    Anthony Emery

    Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 3, Southern England

    This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150...
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  • Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 1, Northern England by Emery, Anthony
    Anthony Emery

    Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300 1500: Volume 1, Northern England

    This the first of a three-volume survey of more than 700 greater houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that survive in England and Wales, and the first to be undertaken for over 150 years and by far the most comprehensive to date. All...
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  • Artists' Homes by Harford-Thompson, Tom
    Tom Harford-Thompson

    Artists' Homes

    In this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music producer's studio to an ecowarrior's treehouse. His evocative photographs show how our life/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse, or a reclaimed factory,...
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  • A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility: Everything Architects and Builders Need to Know about the Fair Housing ACT Accessibility by Steven Winter Associates Inc
    Steven Winter Associates Inc

    A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility: Everything Architects and Builders Need to Know about the Fair Housing ACT Accessibility

    The guide that takes the guesswork out of Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines conformance The Federal government is stepping up its enforcement of the Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines, and failure to comply with these guidelines can result in a complaint for discriminatory housing...
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  • Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity by Chusid, Jeffrey M.
    Jeffrey M. Chusid

    Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity

    "Dear Mrs. Freeman: I am glad to know that you are still happily 'at home.' Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright."Winner of The University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation's 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize, this book is a case study on the preservation of...
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  • Interior Landscapes: Horticulture and Design by Malitz, Jerome
    Jerome Malitz

    Interior Landscapes: Horticulture and Design

    Delving into all aspects of designing and maintaining unique interior landscapes, this colorfully illustrated book demonstrates how to realize landscapes for a variety of different interiors, from private homes to corporate office buildings, and in styles ranging from naturalistic to abstract. Photographic examples of...
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  • Islamic Palace Architecture in the Western Mediterranean: A History by Arnold, Felix
    Felix Arnold

    Islamic Palace Architecture in the Western Mediterranean: A History

    Palaces like the Aljafer�a and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at C�rdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in...
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  • Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good by Brower, Sidney
    Sidney Brower

    Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good

    Residents look at their neighborhood differently than visitors and designers do. The features that they see as most important can differ significantly, so that spaces that are viewed as successful by designers may be disliked by residents. Designers who hope to create successful residential...
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  • Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury by Harris, Neil
    Neil Harris

    Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury

    The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, money, style, and development lies at the heart...
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  • The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright by Connors, Joseph
    Joseph Connors

    The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Robie House in Chicago is one of the world's most famous houses, a masterpiece from the end of Frank Lloyd Wright's early period and a classic example of the Prairie House. This book is intended as a companion for the visitor to the...
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  • The Architect's Guide to Residential Design by Malone, Michael
    Michael Malone

    The Architect's Guide to Residential Design

    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.A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESIDENTIAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTSWritten by a successful practitioner of both residential and...
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  • Beautiful Built-Ins: Plans for Designing with Stock Cabinets by Edwards, Connie
    Connie Edwards

    Beautiful Built-Ins: Plans for Designing with Stock Cabinets

    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.ALL THE DETAILS, PLANS, AND IDEAS YOU NEED TO USE STOCK KITCHEN CABINETS TO CREATE BUILT-INS THROUGHOUT THE...
    $59.00
    $59.00
    $59.00
  • 150 Best New Eco Home Ideas by None
    None

    150 Best New Eco Home Ideas

    Discover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles.Architects, designers, and homeowners today looking for comfortable, beautiful...
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  • 150 Best New Bathroom Ideas by Zamora, Francesc
    Francesc Zamora

    150 Best New Bathroom Ideas

    For homeowners and architects alike, an irresistible collection of hundreds of inspirational full-color profiles of 150 of the most exciting contemporary bathroom designs.Showcasing an extensive collection of designs and style, captured in stunning full-color photos, 150 Best New Bathroom Ideas provides an in-depth review...
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  • 150 Best Apartment Ideas by Canizares, Ana G.
    Ana G. Canizares

    150 Best Apartment Ideas

    New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have...
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  • Modernist Icons: Midcentury Houses and Interiors by Gestalten
    Gestalten

    Modernist Icons: Midcentury Houses and Interiors

    A celebration of mid-century modern interiors, architecture, and design.Step into the world of mid-century modern design with Modernist Icons, a stunning explora- tion of the era's groundbreaking architecture and interiors from around the world. Discover how this design movement evolved from organic forms and...
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  • In The Village by Bailey, Anthony
    Anthony Bailey

    In The Village

    Anthony Bailey's intimate look at life in Stonington borough made waves when it was published. First appearing in 1971 as a serialized version in the New Yorker, a hard-cover version was published soon thereafter. In 1992, a second paperback edition was printed locally and...
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  • Upgrade Your House: Rebuild, Renovate, and Reimagine Your Home by Gestalten
    Gestalten

    Upgrade Your House: Rebuild, Renovate, and Reimagine Your Home

    Turning an unassuming house into a desirable home requires creative vision and skillful execution but not a huge budget.Discover the art of transforming old architecture into a haven of comfort and style. This is your guide to upgrading your home without breaking the bank,...
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  • Victorian Homes of San Francisco by Way, Terry
    Terry Way

    Victorian Homes of San Francisco

    The Victorian architecture of San Francisco is known the world over for its distinctive look and charm. More than 200 color images show broadshot views of homes tightly stacked together along steep streets, as well as close-ups of details. The text provides a historic...
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  • The Minimum Dwelling Revisited: Ciam's Practical Utopia (1928-31) by Kallis, Aristotle
    Aristotle Kallis

    The Minimum Dwelling Revisited: Ciam's Practical Utopia (1928-31)

    This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), addressing their engagement with the...
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  • Architectural Engineering of Second Chicago School Structures 1947-2009 And Genesis of a House 1956 by Asrow Fasce, Sherwin P.
    Sherwin P. Asrow Fasce

    Architectural Engineering of Second Chicago School Structures 1947-2009 And Genesis of a House 1956

    Sherwin P. Asrow, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1922, became a renowned Architectural Engineer working on numerous world-class Second Chicago School structures built between 1947 and 2009. Among these structures are Prudential Building (Chicago, IL), Chicago O'hare International Airport, University of Illinois Student Union,...
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  • Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation, and Management by Butcher-Younghans, Sherry
    Sherry Butcher-Younghans

    Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation, and Management

    Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects, and industrial magnates. These are the places, carefully saved and preserved, that represent a...
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  • Great Houses of Mississippi by Miller, Mary Carol
    Mary Carol Miller

    Great Houses of Mississippi

    The sweeping staircase of Auburn. The imposing ironwork of Ammadelle. The forlorn, ambitious geometry of Longwood. Mississippi homes boast some of America's great architectural marvels. Great Houses of Mississippi highlights the state's exceptional antebellum houses in color photographs and lively and informative text. Federal...
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  • Houses for Sale by Meredith, Michael
    Michael Meredith

    Houses for Sale

    Journey with architects Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample through the history of architecture on their quest to find a perfect homeIn Houses for Sale, architects Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS Architects invite readers on their family's quest for a new home through...
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  • Understanding Architectural Details - Residential by Walshaw, Emma
    Emma Walshaw

    Understanding Architectural Details - Residential

    Understanding Architectural Details - Residential is packed full of over 120 construction details in 2D and 3D. This new 4th Edition has been updated in line with the June 2022 Building Regulations updates. We look at the principles behind construction detailing, and delve deep...
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  • Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930 by Barczewski, Stephanie
    Stephanie Barczewski

    Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930

    Country houses and the British empire, 1700-1930 assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the...
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  • Home for Health: Creating a Sanctuary for Healing by Tudhope, Hilton a.
    Hilton a. Tudhope

    Home for Health: Creating a Sanctuary for Healing

    More than 15 percent of North Americans report an unusual sensitivity to common chemical products such as those used in construction. Another 40 percent may have mild symptoms of which they're unaware. The author's wife is one of those who suffered from environmental hypersensitivity....
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  • Hollywood Homes: Postcard Views of Early Stars' Estates by Martin, Mary L.
    Mary L. Martin

    Hollywood Homes: Postcard Views of Early Stars' Estates

    This wonderful book takes you on an architectural tour into the lives of over 100 early demi-Gods of the Silver Screen. Preserved on postcards, these images are as collectible today as they were when first bought by tourists who flocked to the burgeoning film...
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  • Inside the Korean House: Architecture and Design in the Contemporary Hanok by Park, Nani
    Nani Park

    Inside the Korean House: Architecture and Design in the Contemporary Hanok

    A rare glimpse into Korean hanok, Inside the Korean House takes readers on an unprecedented tour through the modern interiors of twelve magnificent tradional homes. Amidst the glass-and-steel skyscrapers and luxury apartments of modern-day Seoul, traditional Korean houses known as hanok survive and play...
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  • Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and Ff&e for Residential and Commercial Interiors Projects by McGowan, Maryrose
    Maryrose McGowan

    Specifying Interiors: A Guide to Construction and Ff&e for Residential and Commercial Interiors Projects

    Based on the International Building Code (IBC), this updated and expanded edition of the industry standard covers today's diverse materials, regulations and requirements, specification formats, and more. Just as detailed as the specifications it explains, this comprehensive Second Edition provides all the critical information...
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  • The Scottish Castles Story by Alexander, Marc
    Marc Alexander

    The Scottish Castles Story

    The turbulent and dramatic history of Scotland's castles, including Edinburgh, Balmoral, and Cawdor Castle, and castles still venerated by members of clans such as Castle CampbellScotland's castles reflect the turbulent history of Scotland and its many conflicts and skirmishes, whether against invaders from the...
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  • The English Castles Story by Alexander, Marc
    Marc Alexander

    The English Castles Story

    To use a phrase from Shakespeare, castles are "stories in stones." They remained the architectural landmarks of 1,000 years of British history. They have also provided the setting for some of the most dramatic deeds in British history in war and political conflict. This...
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  • Encyclopedia of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture [With CDROM] by McLeod, Virginia
    Virginia McLeod

    Encyclopedia of Detail in Contemporary Residential Architecture [With CDROM]

    This is a comprehensive sourcebook, containing newly commissioned scale drawings of every type of architectural detailtaken from 100 of the best contemporary houses. Over 700 detailed drawings of walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, and staircases feature keys explaining construction techniques and materials used. Each...
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  • Housing Design for an Increasingly Older Population: Redefining Assisted Living for the Mentally and Physically Frail by Regnier, Victor
    Victor Regnier

    Housing Design for an Increasingly Older Population: Redefining Assisted Living for the Mentally and Physically Frail

    "Longer lifespans and the needs of the oldest old are challenging the senior living industry to find bold and compassionate solutions to combine programs and services with housing. Victor Regnier's latest research provides a thoughtful and insightful roadmap that arrays new ways of thinking...
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  • Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico by Carranza, Luis E.
    Luis E. Carranza

    Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico

    Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially...
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  • The Iconic British House: Modern Architectural Masterworks Since 1900 by Bradbury, Dominic
    Dominic Bradbury

    The Iconic British House: Modern Architectural Masterworks Since 1900

    A comprehensive survey of fifty of Britain's most architecturally significant houses from 1900 to the present, featuring established names alongside the work of fresh emerging talents in the twenty-first century. Covering the major design movements of the past 120 years, including art deco, modernism,...
    $65.00
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  • Passive House Details: Solutions for High-Performance Design by Corner, Donald
    Donald Corner

    Passive House Details: Solutions for High-Performance Design

    Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals, research, analysis, systems, details, and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, healthy, and satisfying buildings currently built...
    $59.95
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  • Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century by Sagharchi, Alireza
    Alireza Sagharchi

    Traditional Architecture: Timeless Building for the Twenty-First Century

    A comprehensive overview of current trends in classicist and vernacular architecture. This book presents 130 projects that reconsider what it means to practice as a traditional architect in the twenty-first century, including a substantial body of work from non-Western countries as well as work...
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  • Design for Dementia: Living Well at Home by Halsall, Bill
    Bill Halsall

    Design for Dementia: Living Well at Home

    Design for Dementia is written by an interdisciplinary team of professionals and academics whose aim is to present lessons learnt from the Dementia Demonstration House at the Building Research Establishment's Innovation Park. Known as Chris and Sally's House, the project represents a unique opportunity...
    $160.00
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  • Lost Informal Housing in Istanbul: Globalization at the Expense of Urban Culture by Dulgeroglu-Yuksel, F. Yurdanur
    F. Yurdanur Dulgeroglu-Yuksel

    Lost Informal Housing in Istanbul: Globalization at the Expense of Urban Culture

    The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies. This unique book provides a worldview of multi-stakeholders in the urban housing market. With a longitudinal research approach, it paves the way...
    $59.95
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  • Housing for Hope and Wellbeing by Samuel, Flora
    Flora Samuel

    Housing for Hope and Wellbeing

    Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing system...
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  • Urban Coalition for Ukraine: Strategies and Proposals by Urban Coalition for Ukraine
    Urban Coalition for Ukraine

    Urban Coalition for Ukraine: Strategies and Proposals

    This publication reflects the work of the first year of Ro3kvit - Urban Coalition for Ukraine. The members are profes-sionals from Ukraine and elsewhere who have come together to rethink Ukraine's future. In six chapters covering topics ranging fromurbanism to housing and from identity...
    $39.95
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  • Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro by Goldberger, Paul
    Paul Goldberger

    Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

    The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the HamptonsArchitecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton--Blue Dream, the result of a...
    $85.00
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