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Buffalo Architecture: A Guide

By: Banham, Reyner; Beveridge, Charles; Hitchcock, Henry-Russell; Corporation, Buffalo Architectural Guidebook

Price: $10.95

Publisher: The MIT Press: 1981-10-19

Seller ID: E4-432f

ISBN: 026252063X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, whose work here is accompanied by over 250 illustrations and photographs.

For its size, the city of Buffalo, New York, possesses a remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Adler and Sullivan's Prudential building, H. H. Richardson's massive Buffalo State Hospital, Richard Upjohn's Sr. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, five prairie houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and building by Daniel Burnham, Albert K...
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Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City

By: Bascomb, Neal

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Doubleday: 2003-10-21

Seller ID: R5-303mf

ISBN: 0385506600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the greatest canvas in the world--the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city...
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Reference Guide to Famous Engineering Landmarks of the World

By: Berlow, Lawrence

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Routledge: 1998-08-01

Seller ID: H2-472f

ISBN: 1579580920

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

More than 650 landmarks are covered, ranging from ancient monuments such as Stonehenge, to contemporary engineering feats such as the World Trade Center in New York City. The concisely-written entries describe when the landmark was built, who built it, why it was built, its dimensions, how it was constructed, and any problems encountered during construction. Additional features include: numerous photographs; biographies of important builders and designers; glossary; chronology of dates in civil engineering from 3000 BC to the present; listings of tallest buildings, longest bridges, and highest...
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RebuiltGreen: The Natural Capital Center and the Transformative Power of Building

By: Bettina von Hagen [Editor]; Erin Kellogg [Editor]; Eugenie Frerichs [Editor];

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ecotrust: 2003-01-01

Seller ID: B7-602w

ISBN: 0967636426

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Cover has light wear.
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The World of Contemporary Architecture

By: Cerver, Francisco Asensio

Price: $17.61

Publisher: Konemann: 2005-01-01

Seller ID: R5-30006f

ISBN: 3833117672

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Desert dream, desert romance: The history, style & food of the Royal Palms Resort and Spa

By: Chew, Robert Z

Price: $31.46

Publisher: the Royal Palms Resort and Spa: 2002-01-01

Seller ID: B8-106DIA

ISBN: 0972565302

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

By: Ching, Francis D.K.; Profusely illustrated [Illustrator]

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1996-01-01

Seller ID: H7-601w

ISBN: 0442017928

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Name written on front end page.

The Colonial Architecture of Salem (Dover Architecture)

By: Cousins, Frank; Riley, Phil M.

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: 2000-09-18

Seller ID: S5-312ri

ISBN: 0486412504

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

Salem, Massachusetts, has long been considered the center of New England's Colonial architecture, a storehouse of well-preserved American antiquities. This profusely illustrated study, first published in 1919, represents the first complete, chronological survey of Colonial architecture in Salem from the town's settlement in 1626 to the end of its Colonial development in 1818.
Focusing on such major styles as the gable and peaked-roof house, the lean-to house, the gambrel-roof house, and the square three-story house, this volume features detailed descriptions of over 100 buildings: the famou...
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Architecture: The Critics' Choice

By: Cruickshank, Dan

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Watson-Guptill: 2000-09-01

Seller ID: F5-4006ri

ISBN: 0823002896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

An engrossing guided tour of some of the world's greatest buildings awaits readers of this unique tribute to excellence and innovation in architecture, from antiquity to modernism and beyond, each period written by an eminent specialist.
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Southern Turkey, the Levant and Cyprus

By: Denham, H. M.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1976-06-17

Seller ID: C2-212w

ISBN: 0393031985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket has light shelf wear. In mylar protective cover.
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Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians

By: Elizabeth Pomada; Michael Larsen

Price: $17.95

Publisher: E. P. Dutton: 1978-10-27

Seller ID: B2-162f

ISBN: 0525174419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

The Palaces of India

By: Fatesinhrao Gaekwad, Maharaja of Baroda

Price: $69.99

Publisher: Vendome Press: 1980-10-01

Seller ID: G2-100ri

ISBN: 0865650071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket in Mylar protective cover.
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The Principles of Architecture: Style, Structure and Design

By: Foster, Michael [Editor]

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Bdd Promotional Book Co: 1990-11-01

Seller ID: Z4-513w

ISBN: 0792451902

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Light scratches on the dust jack

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

By: Francis D.K. Ching

Price: $11.89

Publisher: Wiley: 1996-01-01

Seller ID: E2-1013f

ISBN: 0471286168

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

The Second Edition of this classic introduction to the principles of architecture is everything you would expect from the celebrated architect, author, and illustrator, Francis D. K. Ching. Each page has been meticulously revised to incorporate contemporary examples of the principles of form, space, and order-the fundamental vocabulary of every designer. The result is a beautifully illustrated volume that embraces today's forms and looks at conventional models with a fresh perspective. Here, Ching examines every principal of architecture, juxtaposing images that span centuries and cross cultur...
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A Pictorial History Of Architecture In America

By: G. E. Kidder Smith

Price: $32.95

Publisher: American Heritage Publishing Company: 1976-01-01

Seller ID: A6-101mf

ISBN: 039304453X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall

By: Garcetti, Gil; Gehry, Frank O. [Foreword]

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Balcony Press: 2003-06-20

Seller ID: F1-111w

ISBN: 1890449156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The graceful curves of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are familiar to anyone interested in contemporary architecture or the work of this great master. They are also famous, if not infamous, to the ironworkers faced with the challenge of building them. With a building skin stretched tight and tolerances shaved to a thousandth of an inch, there was simply no room for typical industry standards. A new breed of ironworker was required, one who relies on modern tools like lasers, yet whose muscular forms wielding hammers hundreds of feet above the ground testify still to the ...
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Workplaces and Workspaces: Office Designs That Work

By: Henderson, Justin

Price: $23.95

Publisher: Rockport Pub: 2000-09-01

Seller ID: T9-4013DIA

ISBN: 1564966917

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The challenges of office space design in today's world are overwhelming. Globalization, downsizing, computerization, and the changing vision of what determines an effective working environment make office design and planning more of a challenge than ever before. The collection of design work illustrated in this book proves that talented designers continue to meet these challenges with new and more innovative design solutions. Faced with a business world motivated by cyberspace, new technologies, and changing modes of doing business, this book functions as the ultimate style sourcebook and desi...
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A Guide To The World's Greatest Buildings - Masterpieces of Architecture & Engineering

By: Howells, Trevor (editor)

Price: $8.94

Publisher: Fog City Press: 2003-01-01

Seller ID: T6-600ri

ISBN: 1877019453

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Johnson Fain Partners: Selected and Current Works (The Master Architect Series III)

By: Images Publishing Group

Price: $12.84

Publisher: Images Publishing Dist Ac: 2001-07-08

Seller ID: F3-102ri

ISBN: 187549877X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Makers that stand in a landscape of sprawl, spaces that make sense in that same urban collage: this is the work of Johnson Fain Partners. Part of the Master Architect Series II
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Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus

By: Isaacs, Reginald

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Bulfinch Pr: 1991-04-01

Seller ID: H10-603LORI

ISBN: 0821217534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

The public and private Walter Gropius is presented here by a long-time friend and colleague.
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