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The Ecological Design Handbook
By Stitt, Fred - $105.95
* The best A-TO-Z book available on "green" design * Covers everything from alternative energy source hardware to design...aesthetics...permaculture...energy-saving retrofitting...interior air quality...hybrid construction materials...cohousing...bioremediation...infrastructure... and the New Urbanism * Practical guidance on zoning, financing, and impl...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. - ISBN: 0070614997 - Dimensions: 9.50inx7.50inx1.42in

 
The New Urbanism
By Katz, Peter - $72.95
The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. - ISBN: 0070338892 - Dimensions: 10.70inx8.90inx0.99in

 
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Jacobs, Jane -
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy,...

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - ISBN: 067974195X - Dimensions: 7.95inx6.01inx1.01in

 
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
By Frederick, Matthew -
This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and...

Publisher: Mit Pr {UMIT} - ISBN: 0262062666 - Dimensions: 5.16inx7.38inx0.75in

 
Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926
By Gossel, Peter -
RAISED DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, SPANISH ARCHITECT ANTONI GAUDI (1852-1926) STROVE TO DISTINGUISH AND REAFFIRM THE IDENTITY OF HIS NATIVE CATALONIA AS SPAIN AND THE REST OF EUROPE MODERNIZED. EARLY NEO-GOTHIC DESIGNS WERE THE STEPPING-STONE TO THE MATURE, ORIGINAL STYLE THAT CAME TO BE SYNONYMOUS WITH HIS NAME. INCORPORATING BOLD COLORS AND ODD BITS...

Publisher: Taschen America LLC - ISBN: 3822825182 - Dimensions: 9.06inx7.26inx0.32in

 
The Poetics of Space
By Bachelard, Gaston -
A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard. -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe

Publisher: Beacon Press - ISBN: 0807064734 - Dimensions: 8.01inx5.39inx0.75in

 
Mies Van Der Rohe
By Zimmerman, Claire -
Less is more: finding perfection in purity Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886?1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. The creator of the Barcelona Pavilion (1929), the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1945?1951) and the Seagram Building in New York (1954?1958), Mies was one of the founders of a new architectural style. Well known for...

Publisher: Taschen America LLC - ISBN: 3822836435 - Dimensions: 9.07inx7.28inx0.28in

 
Home Work
By Kahn, Lloyd -
Publisher: Shelter Publications - ISBN: 0936070331 - Dimensions: 12.00inx9.00inx0.75in

 
1000 Architectural Details
By Vidiella, Alex -
A study of detail in contemporary world architecture in photographs and drawings. 1000 Architectural Details is a reference catalog to buildings' structural features. In photography and drawings (floors, elevations, cross-sections, axonometrics and sketches), the authors discuss how function meets form to create outstanding architecture and design. The...

Publisher: Firefly Books - ISBN: 1554077834 - Dimensions: 10.00inx8.75inx1.25in

 
The Al Purdy A Frame Anthology
By Vermeersch, Paul -
This is a book with a mission. On one level it is a celebration of the great Canadian poet Al Purdy by eminent writers who were his contemporaries. It is also part of a campaign to preserve the place that was the centre of Purdy's writing universe--his home, a lakeside A-frame cottage in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, where he and his wife Eurithe lived for 43 years...

Publisher: Harbour Publishing - ISBN: 1550175025 - Dimensions: 8.00inx8.00inx0.25in

 

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