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  • Courtyard Houses of India by Pandya, Yatin
    Yatin Pandya

    Courtyard Houses of India

    - Extensive documentation of courtyard houses, both traditional and contemporary- More than a thousand images, drawings, plans and maps- Overview according to climate, geography, philosophy and religionIndian architecture is not about an object in space; instead it integrates space within the object where the...
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  • Italy: Contemporary Domestic Landscapes 1945-2000 by Bosoni, Giampiero
    Giampiero Bosoni

    Italy: Contemporary Domestic Landscapes 1945-2000

    These twelve essays by leading architectural critics, sociologists, and designers are devoted to the unusual story of the transformation of residential living space in a country rich with architectural meaning. Home design and construction in Italy shifted after World War II from a base...
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  • Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin by Libeskind, Daniel
    Daniel Libeskind

    Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum Berlin

    The Jewish Museum in Berlin tells the story of German-Jewish history from the fourth century to the present. It consists of two buildings: the first, a former courthouse, was built in the eighteenth century, and the second, a massive extension that opened to the...
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  • Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region: Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D. by Palonka, Radoslaw
    Radoslaw Palonka

    Defensive Architecture and the Depopulation of the Mesa Verde Region: Utah-Colorado in the Thirteenth Century A.D.

    The thirteenth century A.D. was a time of many changes and reorganization in the ancient Pueblo world in the Mesa Verde region. Still unresolved are the causes of the migration of Pueblo people from the Mesa Verde region to the south and southeast in...
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  • Mexico City Architecture Guide by Adrià, Miquel
    Miquel Adrià

    Mexico City Architecture Guide

    An essential guide to Mexico City, surveying more than 180 architectural works from the early 20th century to the presentThis new edition of Arquine's essential guide to Mexico City compiles more than 180 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to...
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  • Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State by Maher, Ashley
    Ashley Maher

    Reconstructing Modernism: British Literature, Modern Architecture, and the State

    Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unexplored architectural criticism by British authors, this book reveals how arguments about architecture led to innovations in literature, as...
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  • Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America by Grubiak, Margaret M.
    Margaret M. Grubiak

    Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America

    The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus...
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  • Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Buildings and Society in the Modern Age by Gillin, Edward
    Edward Gillin

    Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Buildings and Society in the Modern Age

    Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user - rather...
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  • Connective Tissues: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001-2016 by Waldman, Peter
    Peter Waldman

    Connective Tissues: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001-2016

    This is not another treatise on the heroic nature of the Jeffersonian imagination. Rather, it offers another reading generated by Joseph Campbell's reluctant hero in The Hero of A Thousand Faces as offered by Jeffrey Hildner in his prescient Epilogue "Labyrinth R.U.N." It is...
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  • An Architecture of Dialogue: Learning from the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse by Sector, Katelyn
    Katelyn Sector

    An Architecture of Dialogue: Learning from the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse

    In 1987, the Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse was gifted to the City of Boulder as an architectural monument to celebrate its sister-city relationship with Dushanbe, Tajikistan. This book tells the story of the Teahouse and its connection to place through student essays and architectural analyses. Environmental...
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  • The Rasch Brothers and Their Influence on Modern Architecture: The Unfettered Gaze by Leuschel, Klaus
    Klaus Leuschel

    The Rasch Brothers and Their Influence on Modern Architecture: The Unfettered Gaze

    This book examines the careers of German brothers Heinz (1902-96) and Bodo Rasch (1903-95), an architectural duo of the 1920s New Architecture movement, comparing their buildings and graphics to work by artists such as Erika Hock and Ernesto Neto.Author: Klaus LeuschelISBN-10: 3803007801ISBN-13: 9783803007803Publisher: WasmuthLanguage:...
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  • 50 Buildings You Should Know by Kuhl, Isabel
    Isabel Kuhl

    50 Buildings You Should Know

    This collection of great buildings is a highly entertaining lesson in architectural history for readers of all ages. The fifty buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from all over the world. Readers will learn about masterpieces...
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  • Basics Facade Apertures by Krippner, Roland
    Roland Krippner

    Basics Facade Apertures

    Author: Roland Krippner, Florian MussoISBN-10: 3764384662ISBN-13: 9783764384661Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2007Pages: 83Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.30w x 0.30d
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  • Switzerland - An Urban Portrait: Vol. 1: Introduction; Vol. 2: Borders, Communes - A Brief History of the Territory; Vol. 3: Materials by Diener, Roger
    Roger Diener

    Switzerland - An Urban Portrait: Vol. 1: Introduction; Vol. 2: Borders, Communes - A Brief History of the Territory; Vol. 3: Materials

    Author: Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel MeiliISBN-10: 3764372842ISBN-13: 9783764372842Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/25/2005Pages: 1015Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.58h x 6.52w x 2.92d
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  • Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait by Camacho, Ricardo
    Ricardo Camacho

    Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait

    Between 1949 and 1989, remarkable buildings of late modernity were constructed in the coastal city of Kuwait. Within these four decades, the city state on the Arabian Gulf was comprehensively restructured and practically redesigned. Following a first volume with 150 carefully selected exemplary buildings,...
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  • Ancient City Walls in China: A Heritage Rediscovered by Yang, Guoqing
    Guoqing Yang

    Ancient City Walls in China: A Heritage Rediscovered

    In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can be traced back to the 21th century BC as fortified symbols of power and manifestation of the Middle Kingdom. In the course of the country's...
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  • Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions by Como, Mario
    Mario Como

    Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions

    From the content.- Masonry Strength and Deformability.- Fundamentals of Statics.- Masonry Arches.Author: Mario ComoISBN-10: 3319547372ISBN-13: 9783319547374Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2017Pages: 649Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.44d
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  • Make New History: Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 by Johnston, Sharon
    Sharon Johnston

    Make New History: Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017

    Make New History, the companion publication to the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, invites speculation on the status and importance of historical material to the field of architecture today. The book brings together an eminent collection of historians, curators and practitioners and features over a...
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  • Bricks Now & Then: The Oldest Man-Made Building Material by Van Uffelen, Chris
    Chris Van Uffelen

    Bricks Now & Then: The Oldest Man-Made Building Material

    Bricks are the only non-natural building material that can look back at several thousand years of history. And as Mies van der Rhohe stated: "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins". Buildings made of this fabric from very different...
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  • Architecture in Norway: An Architectural History from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Skjold Lexau, Siri
    Siri Skjold Lexau

    Architecture in Norway: An Architectural History from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    Author: Siri Skjold Lexau, Nils Georg Brekke, Per Jonas NordhagenISBN-10: 3035611386ISBN-13: 9783035611380Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2019Pages: 568Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.25lbsSize: 9.70h x 6.60w x 1.60d
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  • Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City by Brogden, Jim
    Jim Brogden

    Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City

    This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of "non-place" as an act of cultural reclamation. Through the restorative properties of photography, it re-conceptualises the cultural significance of non-place. The non-place is often referred to as "wasteland", and is usually avoided. The sites investigated...
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  • Trianon and the Queen's Hamlet at Versailles: A Private Royal Retreat by Moulin, Jacques
    Jacques Moulin

    Trianon and the Queen's Hamlet at Versailles: A Private Royal Retreat

    Exceptional new photography brings readers behind the scenes of the Trianons and Marie Antoinette's Hamlet at Versailles--including areas usually closed to the public. Life in the Ch穰eau de Versailles was dense with pomp and circumstance, and the royals often craved a quiet moment with...
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  • Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost in by Eliot, Henry
    Henry Eliot

    Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost in

    Beautifully designed and gorgeously illustrated, this immersive, puzzle-like exploration of the history and psychology of mazes and labyrinths evokes the spirit of Choose Your Own Adventure, the textual inventiveness of Tom Stoppard, and the philosophical spirit of Jorge Luis Borges. Labyrinths are as old...
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  • From the Templars to the most sensational love story of all time: Culture Hikes in Portugal by Roubien, Denis
    Denis Roubien

    From the Templars to the most sensational love story of all time: Culture Hikes in Portugal

    What became of the Templars? Why is Friday the 13th considered unlucky? What is the most sensational love story of all time? You will find the answers in this book on three top landmarks of Portugal. Portugal is perhaps the most exotic country in...
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  • Loire Valley. Two great monuments, two amazing stories of two great women: Culture Hikes in France by Roubien, Denis
    Denis Roubien

    Loire Valley. Two great monuments, two amazing stories of two great women: Culture Hikes in France

    Interested in discovering the cultural treasures of France and at the same time the stories of people who changed the course of history? This is the book for you. The purpose of this book is to present the castle of Chenonceau and the Royal...
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  • Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History: Pino Shah and Eileen Mattei by Shah, Pino
    Pino Shah

    Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History: Pino Shah and Eileen Mattei

    Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History reveals the heritage and history of Texas's southernmost city as told by its buildings. Outstanding architectural images by Pino Shah show the influence of diverse cultures and regional styles that have shaped the border city's built environment since 1841....
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  • Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage by Inglese, Carlo
    Carlo Inglese

    Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage

    Cultural heritage identifies and preserves past achievements for the benefit of future generations. Examining the extent to which heritage preservation is feasible in an era governed by modernism and globalization is essential for both regional development and cultural conservation. Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of...
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  • Remembering the Old Dominion: Readings on Virginia History by Whitlock, Matthew
    Matthew Whitlock

    Remembering the Old Dominion: Readings on Virginia History

    The interdisciplinary anthology Remembering the Old Dominion: Readings on Virginia History deepens students' understanding of the history of the state of Virginia. Readers learn about the experiences of Virginia's citizens over four hundred years, as well as the impacts of these experiences and related...
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  • Coyotes Go To Heaven: A Biographical Account of F. Robert Henderson and Karen Lee Henderson 1933 - 2016 by Henderson, F. Robert
    F. Robert Henderson

    Coyotes Go To Heaven: A Biographical Account of F. Robert Henderson and Karen Lee Henderson 1933 - 2016

    Author: F. Robert HendersonISBN-10: 1514425610ISBN-13: 9781514425619Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2015Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
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  • Cryptic New Orleans: Cemetery Secrets and Symbols by Bozant, Kevin J.
    Kevin J. Bozant

    Cryptic New Orleans: Cemetery Secrets and Symbols

    Writer and photographer Kevin J. Bozant takes you on a haunting expedition to unearth the secrets of Cryptic New Orleans. Explore 30 above-ground cemeteries and discover a mysterious world of personal, religious, cultural, and fraternal symbolism. Memorial art is celebrated in New Orleans with...
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  • Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees by Seebold, Herman
    Herman Seebold

    Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees

    History of the state's families and homes, originally published in 1941.Author: Herman SeeboldISBN-10: 1589802632ISBN-13: 9781589802636Publisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2005Pages: 564Format: Boxed SetWeight: 5.10lbsSize: 9.58h x 6.58w x 3.01d
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  • Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858 by Faherty
    Faherty

    Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858

    A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home buildingAuthor: FahertyISBN-10: 1584657723ISBN-13: 9781584657729Publisher: University of New Hampshire PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2009Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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  • The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama by Nichols, Ann Eljenholm
    Ann Eljenholm Nichols

    The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama

    Fifteen years in the making, Ann Eljenholm Nichols's The Early Art of Norfolk: A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama is the most comprehensive listing of early art from Norfolk ever compiled. It is based on careful...
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  • Centuries of Hands: An Architectural History of St. Francis of Assisi Church by Hooker, Van Dorn
    Van Dorn Hooker

    Centuries of Hands: An Architectural History of St. Francis of Assisi Church

    St. Francis of Assisi Church in Taos, New Mexico, is one of the most widely recognized buildings in the United States. It has been photographed by thousands of people who have visited it including professional photographers, and painted by scores of artists in various...
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  • Los Angeles Central Library: A History of Its Art and Architecture by Schwartzman, Arnold
    Arnold Schwartzman

    Los Angeles Central Library: A History of Its Art and Architecture

    Declared one of the most beautiful libraries in the world, Los Angeles Central Library is a monument to fine architecture and artwork, its renowned collection of the written word, and its world-class special collections. The Central Library and its history are as fascinating as...
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  • Revealing the Charterhouse: The Making of a London Landmark by Ross, Cathy
    Cathy Ross

    Revealing the Charterhouse: The Making of a London Landmark

    The Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in the City of London, has served as private mansion, a boys' school, and, since 1611, as an almshouse, which it remains to this day. This souvenir volume features illustrated essays on its archaeology, history, landscape, environment, and...
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  • Domestic Interiors: Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns. Edited by Georgina Downey by Downey, Georgina
    Georgina Downey

    Domestic Interiors: Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns. Edited by Georgina Downey

    In the act of enclosing space and making rooms, we make and define our aspirations and identities.Taking a room by room approach, this fascinating volume explores how representations of domestic space have embodied changing spatial configurations and values, and considers how we see modern...
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  • British Architectural Styles: An Easy Reference Guide by Yorke, Trevor
    Trevor Yorke

    British Architectural Styles: An Easy Reference Guide

    Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed drawings, to help put a date to the variety of buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary...
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  • Georgian & Regency Houses Explained by Yorke, Trevor
    Trevor Yorke

    Georgian & Regency Houses Explained

    The Georgian and Regency house conjures up a distinct and much admired image. Elegance, refinement and beautiful proportions have made this period an inspiration for later architects and a popular choice for today's house buyer. Using his own drawings, diagrams and photographs, author Trevor...
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  • The 1930s House Explained by Yorke, Trevor
    Trevor Yorke

    The 1930s House Explained

    The English have a love affair with the period house. We find the intoxicating blend of rustication and detailed styling more appealing than the plain and synthetic houses of recent years. The house-building boom of the late 1920s and the 1930s put home ownership...
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  • Norman Stone Castles (2): Europe 950-1204 by Gravett, Christopher
    Christopher Gravett

    Norman Stone Castles (2): Europe 950-1204

    Following the creation of the Duchy of Normandy, the Normans were soon introduced to the castle and they built them in large numbers. In the mid-11th century, other Norman adventurers began carving out dominions for themselves in Southern Italy: some crossed to Sicily in...
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  • Historic Maine Homes: 300 Years of Great Houses by Glass, Christopher
    Christopher Glass

    Historic Maine Homes: 300 Years of Great Houses

    There's nothing like a historic home to enlighten us about architectural styles and help us imagine what it was like to live in another time. Such houses can also provide inspiration for enriching our own homes and lifestyles today. Architectural historian Christopher Glass and...
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  • Twentieth-Century Building Materials: History and Conservation by Jester, Thomas C.
    Thomas C. Jester

    Twentieth-Century Building Materials: History and Conservation

    Over the concluding decades of the twentieth century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its attention to modern buildings, including bungalows from the 1930s, gas stations and diners from the 1940s, and office buildings and architectural homes from the 1950s. Conservation efforts, however, were...
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  • The Decoration of Houses by Wharton, Edith
    Edith Wharton

    The Decoration of Houses

    Individuality in house-furnishing has seldom been more harped upon than at the present time. The cheap originality which finds expression in putting things to uses for which they were not intended is often confounded with individuality; whereas the latter consists not in an attempt...
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  • Lost Churches of Mississippi by Cawthon, Richard J.
    Richard J. Cawthon

    Lost Churches of Mississippi

    Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or neglect. Constructed primarily from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, these places of worship were often...
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  • A History Through Houses: Cape Cod's Varied Residential Architecture by Conry, Jaci
    Jaci Conry

    A History Through Houses: Cape Cod's Varied Residential Architecture

    The rugged beauty of the Cape's landscape has been captured in writing since the days of Henry David Thoreau. Yet few mention the area's architecture, aside from references to the Cape Cod houses, the basic cottages that the earliest settlers built. From Provincetown at...
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  • Rhinebeck's Historic Architecture by Kelly, Nancy V.
    Nancy V. Kelly

    Rhinebeck's Historic Architecture

    Nestled on the banks of the Hudson River, Rhinebeck, New York, is a shining example of American architectural history. Lifelong resident and Town Historian Nancy Kelly scrutinizes Rhinebeck's eclectic structures, from modest cabins to Victorian estates, framed colonial homes to elaborate Beaux Arts mansions....
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  • Savannah's Little Crooked Houses: If These Walls Could Talk by Johnson, Susan B.
    Susan B. Johnson

    Savannah's Little Crooked Houses: If These Walls Could Talk

    Writer Susan B. Johnson documents the interesting histories of of the famous antebellum cottages which dot Savannah's historic district.In a warm, accessible style, Savannah writer Susan B. Johnson gives voice to the walls of the famous antebellum cottages that dot the city's historic district...
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  • W.L. Dow: The Architect Who Shaped Sioux Falls by Dumke, Jennifer
    Jennifer Dumke

    W.L. Dow: The Architect Who Shaped Sioux Falls

    Wallace L. Dow's enduring legacy is visible throughout Sioux Falls and across South Dakota. His distinctive structures, whether civic buildings or private residences, are beholden to no single architectural style. A New Hampshire native, Dow was brought to the Dakota Territory in the 1880s...
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  • The Architectural Jewels of Rochester, New Hampshire: A History of the Built Environment by Behrendt, Michael
    Michael Behrendt

    The Architectural Jewels of Rochester, New Hampshire: A History of the Built Environment

    Rochester may be better known for its rolling hills and lilac fields than for its architecture, but look closely and the city s hidden gems reveal themselves. In this survey of Rochester s historic architectural elements and styles, city planner Michael Behrendt encourages you...
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