Architecture
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The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods
$16.99 Add to cartThe Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spe
- Author: Hardy, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1937555259
- Language: English
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New Orleans Houses: A House-Watcher’s Guide
$25.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest outdoor museums in the world, New Orleans is acclaimed for its unique architecture. Glimpses of its evolving character from the colonial period to the present can be found in the o
- Author: Vogt, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1455624667
- Language: English
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Historic Charleston & the Lowcountry
$42.00 Add to cartIn this elegant hardbound volume, photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley take you on an intimate tour of some of the finest historic homes, gardens, churches, and plantations of the old city of Cha
- Author: Gross, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1423638514
- Language: English
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Earth Render – The Art of Clay Plaster, Render and Paints
$28.00 Add to cartRendering or plastering is a craft as old as house building, the basic methods and concepts having changed little over time. This book offers a detailed look at the use of raw earth for painting and r… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: October 04 2013
- ISBN10: 097577820X
- Language: English
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California Romantica
$50.00 Read moreCalifornia Romantica features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by such noted architects as George Washington Smith, Wal… [more below]
- Author: Keaton, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0847864758
- Language: English
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100 Turn-Of-The-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans
$12.95 Add to cartReprinted from rare 1912 catalog, this book presents 100 winning entries from a nationwide competition for brick bungalow designs. Superb renderings show houses in perspective, floor plans, some lands… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Rogers & Manson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0486281191
- Language: English
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Living in Morocco. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartThough 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,
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: René Stoeltie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 3836590034
- Language: English
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Chairs: 1,000 Masterpieces of Modern Design, 1800 to the Present
$39.95 Add to cartThis updated edition features designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft.
- Author: Fiell, Charlotte And Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1802791000
- Language: English
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At Home in the Wine Country: Architecture & Design in the California Vineyards
$50.00 Add to cartShowcasing 17 stunning residences in California wine country designed by top architects and designers.
2021 Foreword Indies, BRONZE: Regional
Through compelling narrative and stunning photography, autho
- Author: Hebert, Heather Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1423654951
- Language: English
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Yves Klein
$23.33 Read moreIn the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928-1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful c
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Weitemeier, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836553139
- Language: English
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Built by Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond
$33.99 Add to cartRichmond’s vast and varied collection of architecture provides an archive of African American history. Author Selden Richardson explains how iconic symbols of old Richmond and the generations of black… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Selden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1540218686
- Language: English
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Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen
$70.00 Read moreAn updated, rewritten and expanded edition of the cult classic exploring Jacobsen’s midcentury design through the microcosm of a single hotel room
In the center of Copenhagen, on the sixth floor of the
- Author: Sheridan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 8794102554
- Language: English
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The City as a Technical Being: On the Mode of Existence of Architecture
$35.00 Read moreThe city is the largest human artifact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities.
The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes i- Author: Trummer, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1957183551
- Language: English
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Builders of the Pacific Coast
$32.95 Read moreMeet the DIY builders of the Pacific Coast, whose homes are practical, imaginative, and environmentally friendly.
If you’re fascinated by homes and architecture or if you’re seeking inspiration for you
- Series: Shelter Library of Building Books
- Author: Kahn, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0936070439
- Language: English
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Wonderful Houses Around the World
$12.95 Read moreTravel to 10 different countries, and learn about the children, their families, and their unique homes.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words–and that’s never been more true than with Won
- Series: Discoveries in Palaeontology
- Author: Komatsu, Yoshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 093607034X
- Language: English
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Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909)
$24.99 Read more“I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building — or the significance of those buildings I have already built.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
Fran- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0486244571
- Language: English
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AIA Guide to New York City
$47.99 Add to cartHailed as “extraordinarily learned” (New York Times), “blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,” (New York Magazine), and the “definitive record of New York’s architectural heritage” (Municipal Art So… [more below]
- Author: White, Norval
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: June 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0195383869
- Language: English
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The Eiffel Tower
$46.67 Read more“The Tower is also present to the entire world… a universal symbol of Paris… from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn’t made, somehow, in the Tower’s name.”
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 3836584417
- Language: English
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Carlo Scarpa: Classic Format
$59.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, Carlo Scarpa, from the highly regarded architectural author, Robert McCarter
The work of Carlo Scarpa challenge
- Author: McCarter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1838662928
- Language: English
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Contemporary Concrete Buildings
$29.17 Add to cartConcrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 3836564939
- Language: English
