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Michael Taylor: Interior Design
The life and work of the groundbreaking interior designer and the inventor of the “California Look.” |
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Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935
A survey of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, RI, for all who love grand houses. |
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Pocket Guide to Los Angeles Architecture
This concise handbook organizes one hundred must-see architectural highlights into three downtown walkable tours and two delightful side trips. |
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Rethinking Sitting
This beautifully illustrated reference reimagines the act of sitting and explains the philosophy that informs future furniture designs. |
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Public Art New York
A guided tour of the best public art in all five boroughs of New York City. |
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Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them
Covers the work of six designers and brings these pioneering women to life as people and professionals. |
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Historic Preservation, Second Edition
An ideal introduction to the field for students, historians, preservationists, property owners, local officials, and community leaders. |
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts
Twenty-one carefully chosen selections from Wright’s extensive literary output span the important period between 1900 and the late 1930s. |
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The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City
In this luscious, oversized, all-color book, Patrick Blanc explains how to create plant walls using over 1,000 plants. |
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Green Roofs: In Sustainable Landscape Design
Green roofs make private and public buildings attractive and environmentally friendly. |
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Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive
A timely portrait of the work of an architect who expanded the vocabulary of modern architecture. |
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Fabric Architecture
This visual catalog provides a broad array of ideas and green solutions for a wide array of structures. |
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Inspired by Nature: Minerals
This book gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have looked for solutions in the world of geology. |
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Inspired by Nature: Animals
Showcases the work of two dozen architects who have drawn on such structures as tortoise and snail shells, spiders’ webs and birds’ nests, beehives and beaver lodges. |
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Key Urban Housing of the 20th Century: Plans, Sections, and Elevations
Fourth in the Key series, this book features 87 of the most influential modern housing designs. |
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Key Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections, Elevations
Third in the Key series, this book features 95 buildings of the early twenty-first century. |
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Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York
Now available in paperback, this award-winning title takes a fresh look at the greatest builder and most controversial figure in the history of New York City. |
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Public Markets
More than 800 historical and contemporary images depict the many types of public markets. |
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American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960
A comprehensive survey of American vernacular architecture and interior design, revised and expanded from the authors’ earlier books. |
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Faces in Stone: Architectural Structure in New York City
A delightful collection of quirky faces and figures that people New York City buildings. |
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Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House
Commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men. The mansion along with its magnificent furnishings, art, gardens, and the owners' striving and ultimate failure are the dramatis personae of this saga. |
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Leopold Eidlitz, Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age
This book offers the first critical examination of Leopold Eidlitz, America's first Jewish architect. |
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Getting a Job in Architecture and Design
Learn about the complete realm of job possibilities and what makes each an integral part of the profession and the market. |
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The Study of Architectural Design
The only text in English that describes, step by step, the Beaux-Arts method of architectural education. |
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Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier
Corrugated a long and fascinating history and a future as bright as its past. |
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The Municipal Art Society of New York: Ten Architectural Walks in Manhattan
This illustrated guidebook is illuminated by two experienced MAS guides. |
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Hidcote: The Making of a Garden, Revised Edition
The most influential English garden of the twentieth century. |
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Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist
The first book in decades to focus on the renowned muralist. |
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The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury
The inventor and architect who introduced beauty and inexpensive good design into the lives of the working classes. |
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Parks, Plants, and People Beautifying the Urban Landscape
Beautiful public spaces, planted and maintained to high standards, transform the way people behave and feel about their cities. |
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Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals
Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement. |
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Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production, 3rd Ed.
The unchallenged bible of the publishing industry. Now in paperback! |
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