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  • International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku by Oshima, Ken Tadashi
    Ken Tadashi Oshima

    International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku

    After World War I, architects around the world aspired to transcend national boundaries that had been devastated by conflicts. The result was a flurry of artistic creativity. In Japan, young architects strove to create an "international architecture," or kokusai kenchiku, an expression of increasing...
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  • The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port by Um, Nancy
    Nancy Um

    The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

    Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the...
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  • The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port by Um, Nancy
    Nancy Um

    The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port

    Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the...
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  • Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic by Bozdogan, Sibel
    Sibel Bozdogan

    Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic

    Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural HistoriansWinner of the M. Fuat Koprulu Book Prize in Turkish Studies sponsored by the Turkish Studies AssociationWith the proclamation of the Turkish republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923, Turkey's political...
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  • Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Jordan, Terry G.
    Terry G. Jordan

    Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture

    Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas...
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  • White Walls, Designer Dresses by Wigley, Mark
    Mark Wigley

    White Walls, Designer Dresses

    In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious, but least discussed, feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative...
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  • Journey to the East by Le Corbusier
    Le Corbusier

    Journey to the East

    Available again after many years, the legendary travel diary kept by the young Le Corbusier on his journey through the Balkans in 1911.This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles- douard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central,...
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  • Chambers for a Memory Palace by Lyndon, Donlyn
    Donlyn Lyndon

    Chambers for A Memory Palace

    This ode to the spirit of place consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber...
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  • Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory by Carpo, Mario
    Mario Carpo

    Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory

    A history of the influence of communication technologies on Western architectural theory.The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic...
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  • Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World by Crowe, Norman
    Norman Crowe

    Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World: An Investigation into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment

    Over the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have been turned over to developers and planners. Norman Crowe seeks to overcome this division into the respective realms of specialists by recognizing the...
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  • Bark by Didi-Huberman, Georges
    Georges Didi-Huberman

    Bark

    A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he...
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  • Building Old Cambridge: Architecture and Development by Maycock, Susan E.
    Susan E. Maycock

    Building Old Cambridge: Architecture and Development

    An extensively illustrated, comprehensive exploration of the architecture and development of Old Cambridge from colonial settlement to bustling intersection of town and gown.Old Cambridge is the traditional name of the once-isolated community that grew up around the early settlement of Newtowne, which served briefly...
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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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  • Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Obrist, Hans Ulrich
    Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects

    Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses 19 of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists...
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  • New York City Architecture in the Palm of Your Hand (CD-ROM for Your PDA) by Wolfe, Gerard R.
    Gerard R. Wolfe

    New York City Architecture in the Palm of Your Hand (CD-ROM for Your PDA)

    Author: Gerard R. WolfeISBN-10: 0071430504ISBN-13: 9780071430500Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2003Format: OtherWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 7.72h x 5.52w x 0.57dNot available to be shipped via Media Mail
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  • The Golden Number and the Scientific Aesthetics of Architecture by Borissavliévitch, Miloutine
    Miloutine Borissavli?vitch

    The Golden Number and the Scientific Aesthetics of Architecture

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Book of Town and Country Homes: Three and Four Bedroom Homes Styled and Planned in Keeping With Modern and Functional Living, 5th Ed. by Home Plan Book Co
    Home Plan Book Co

    The Book of Town and Country Homes: Three and Four Bedroom Homes Styled and Planned in Keeping With Modern and Functional Living, 5th Ed.

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Young Carpenter's Assistant, or, A System of Architecture Adapted to the Style of Building in the United States by Biddle, Owen 1774-1806
    Owen 1774-1806 Biddle

    The Young Carpenter's Assistant, or, A System of Architecture Adapted to the Style of Building in the United States

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frog by Pyne, W. H. (William Henry) 1769-1843
    W. H. (William Henry) 1769-1843 Pyne

    The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frog

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture: Viz. Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite ... to Which is Annex'd, a Discourse Con by Perrault, Claude 1613-1688 James
    Claude 1613-1688 James Perrault

    A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture: Viz. Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite ... to Which is Annex'd, a Discourse Con

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture, in a More Exact and Easy Manner Than Has Been Heretofore Practised, by Which All Fractions, in Di by Gibbs, James 1682-1754
    James 1682-1754 Gibbs

    Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture, in a More Exact and Easy Manner Than Has Been Heretofore Practised, by Which All Fractions, in Di

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • A Comprehensive City Plan for East St. Louis, Illinois by Bartholomew, Harland 1889-
    Harland 1889- Bartholomew

    A Comprehensive City Plan for East St. Louis, Illinois

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Lambert's Suburban Architecture by Wm a Lambert
    Wm a Lambert

    Lambert's Suburban Architecture

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  • The Regular Architect, or, The General Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture of M. Giacomo Barozzio Da Vignola: With a New Addition of Michael Angel by Vignola, 1507-1573
    1507-1573 Vignola

    The Regular Architect, or, The General Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture of M. Giacomo Barozzio Da Vignola: With a New Addition of Michael Angel

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Style Portfolio of Home Decoration by Sherwin-Williams Company
    Sherwin-Williams Company

    Style Portfolio of Home Decoration

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Towns and Buildings Described in Drawings and Words by Rasmussen, Steen Eiler
    Steen Eiler Rasmussen

    Towns and Buildings Described in Drawings and Words

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • A Short Dictionary of Architecture, Including Some Common Building Terms by Ware, Dora
    Dora Ware

    A Short Dictionary of Architecture, Including Some Common Building Terms

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Concerning Town Planning by Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
    1887-1965 Le Corbusier

    Concerning Town Planning

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Town-planning in the Netherlands Since 1900 by Blijstra, Reinder 1901-1975
    Reinder 1901-1975 Blijstra

    Town-planning in the Netherlands Since 1900

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Strangers Guide to Montreal & Quebec [microform]: With Maps of Both Cities, and Illustrations by Anonymous
    Anonymous

    Strangers Guide to Montreal & Quebec [microform]: With Maps of Both Cities, and Illustrations

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Latest Book of New Homes: a House for Every Budget by Authentic Publications, Inc
    Inc Authentic Publications

    Latest Book of New Homes: a House for Every Budget

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Ralph Adams Cram, Cram and Ferguson by Cram, Ralph Adams 1863-1942
    Ralph Adams 1863-1942 Cram

    Ralph Adams Cram, Cram and Ferguson

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  • Better Homes and Gardens Book of Home Plans by Better Homes and Gardens
    Better Homes and Gardens

    Better Homes and Gardens Book of Home Plans

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  • Byzantine Architecture and Ornament by Vogüé, Melchior Marquis de
    Melchior Marquis de Vogüé

    Byzantine Architecture and Ornament

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  • The Metropolis of Tomorrow. by Ferriss, Hugh
    Hugh Ferriss

    The Metropolis of Tomorrow.

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  • Aluminum in Modern Architecture, Volume I by Reynolds Metals Company
    Reynolds Metals Company

    Aluminum in Modern Architecture, Volume I

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  • Illustrated Supplement Catalogue. by Champion Iron Fence Co (Kenton, Ohio)
    Ohio) Champion Iron Fence Co (Kenton

    Illustrated Supplement Catalogue.

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  • Ideas for Old Rooms and New by Armstrong Cork Co, Hazel Dell Brown
    Hazel Dell Brown Armstrong Cork Co

    Ideas for Old Rooms and New

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  • Hodgson Houses and Camps, Indoor and Outdoor Equipment by E F Hodgson Co
    E F Hodgson Co

    Hodgson Houses and Camps, Indoor and Outdoor Equipment

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  • Today's Woman Low Cost Homes by Fawcett Books
    Fawcett Books

    Today's Woman Low Cost Homes

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  • Gordon-Van Tine Homes by Gordon-Van Tine Co
    Gordon-Van Tine Co

    Gordon-Van Tine Homes

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  • 4-square Book of Homes by Weyerhaeuser Sales Co
    Weyerhaeuser Sales Co

    4-square Book of Homes

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  • Gordon-Van Tine Plan-cut Homes by Gordon-Van Tine Co
    Gordon-Van Tine Co

    Gordon-Van Tine Plan-cut Homes

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  • American Motohome by American Houses, Inc
    Inc American Houses

    American Motohome

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  • Eric Mendelsohn, 1887-1953 by Mendelsohn, Erich
    Erich Mendelsohn

    Eric Mendelsohn, 1887-1953

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  • 101 Modern Homes Standardized by Standard Homes Company (Washington, D.
    D. Standard Homes Company (Washington

    101 Modern Homes Standardized

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  • Retreats: a Series of Designs, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Cottages, Villas, and Ornamental Buildings by Thomson, J. (James) 1800-1883
    J. (James) 1800-1883 Thomson

    Retreats: a Series of Designs, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Cottages, Villas, and Ornamental Buildings

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Miracle Concrete: the Great Modern Industry by Miracle Pressed Stone Co
    Miracle Pressed Stone Co

    Miracle Concrete: the Great Modern Industry

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  • Architectural Details of Curtis Woodwork. by Companies, Curtis
    Curtis Companies

    Architectural Details of Curtis Woodwork.

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  • Clear Span Buildings: Rigid Frame, Trussed and Pole-type Buildings by Weyerhaeuser Co
    Weyerhaeuser Co

    Clear Span Buildings: Rigid Frame, Trussed and Pole-type Buildings

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