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Architectural Details

By: Reiss, Marcia

Price: $22.00

Publisher: San Diego, California, U.S.A., Thunder Bay Press: 2004

Seller ID: 023607

ISBN: 1592232019

Binding: Hardcover with dust Jacket

Condition: Brand New

"A beautiful and informative handbook that shows how to identify common architectural details in public and residential buildings."
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Richard Murphy Architects: Ten Years of Practice

By: Richard Weston

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery: 2001

Seller ID: 030942

ISBN: 0947912037

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Nr. Fine

An unmarked oblong paperback with minimal shelfwear to wraps. 164 pps.
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The Castles on the Ground : Anatomy of Suburbia

By: Richards, J. M.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: London., John Murray Publishers Ltd: 1973

Seller ID: 028060

ISBN: 0719529085

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A very good unmarked copy with unclipped dust jacket.
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The Victorian House Book

By: Robin Guild

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli: 1992

Seller ID: 030705

ISBN: 084781095X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Internally unmarked and in excellent condition. D/W with sl. edgewear (now protected in removable clear archival plastic).
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Architecture Transformed: A History of the Photography of Buildings from 1839 to the Present

By: Robinson, Cervin; Herschman, Joel

Price: $35.00

Publisher: U.S.A., The MIT Press: 1988

Seller ID: 027996

ISBN: 0262680645

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

PO gift inscription, sl. edgewear to wraps esp. front corners.
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Beyond Bawa: Modern Masterworks of Monsoon Asia

By: Robson, David; Powers, Richard (photographer)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2014

Seller ID: 031658

ISBN: 050029156X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

An unmarked copy in excellent condition. "Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa was among the most influential figures in South Asia in the latter half of the 20th century. In houses, hotels, public buildings and perhaps his greatest achievement, his country estate at Lunuganga, Bawa achieved the harmonious and pleasurable fusion of local building traditions with modern forms." Additionally, this presents twenty-four contemporary architects to reveal the long-lasting significance of Bawa's uniquely sensitive approach to building and the landscape.
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City Life : Urban Expectations in a New World

By: Rybczynski, Witold

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1995

Seller ID: 025560

ISBN: 0684813025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

An excellent copy, internally unmarked and apparently unread. Small remainder dot to lower fore-edges.
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The Look of Architecture

By: Rybczynski, Witold

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford Univ Pr: 2001

Seller ID: 023144

ISBN: 0195134435

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts.
This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture--details are the architecture. But the heart of the book illuminate...
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The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

By: Rybczynski, Witold

Price: $20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Scribner: 2003

Seller ID: 029216

ISBN: 0743205871

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

An unmarked copy in very good condition. "Rybczynski's clear description of what he sees and his lucid explanations of Palladio's ideas and methods enable the reader to see and understand the essence of this architect's accomplishments."
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AALTO : 10 Selected Houses

By: Saito, Yutaka

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Toto Press: 2008

Seller ID: 024903

ISBN: 4887062907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

An as new "gift quality" copy, complete with original promotional wrap around. English/Japanese text.
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Biedermeier to Bauhaus

By: Sangl, Sigrid

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln Ltd: 2000

Seller ID: 013779

ISBN: 0711214980

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Sl. edgewear to boards, internally appears fine. D/W also with sl. edgewear (now protected).
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Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade

By: Scully, Vincent

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, St Martins Pr: 1993

Seller ID: 023882

ISBN: 0312097425

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Internally unmarked, lowerr fore-edges a little grubby, small crease to lower right corner front panel o/w minimal edgewear to wraps and no creasing to spine.
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Harry Seidler & Associates : Towers in the City

By: Seidler, Harry & Associates

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Edizioni Tecno: 1988

Seller ID: 025642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

An unmarked copy in excellent condition.
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Southern Architecture: 350 Years of Distinctive American Buildings

By: Severens, Kenneth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1981

Seller ID: 026550

ISBN: 0525206922

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Internally unmarked and in very good condiiton. D/W with uneven fading to upper edge and s pine (now protected in removable clear archival plastic cover). "The architectural history of the South from frontier settlements through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century grandeur to the twentieth-century preservation movement and modern architecture.
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Lucien Lagrange : The Search for Elegance

By: Sharoff, Robert; Lagrange, Lucien

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Australia, Images Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 026303

ISBN: 1864702974

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Brand New

A brand new book protected in publisher's original shrinkwrap.
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Styles of Ornament: A Pictorial Survey of Six Thousand Years of Ornamental Design

By: Speltz, Alexander

Price: $35.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Grammercy: 1994

Seller ID: 024881

ISBN: 051710170X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First published in Germany in 1904, this is perhaps the most comprehensive survey, and certianly one of the best organised and most accessible collections, of decorative ornament and architectural design ever compiled." Small remainder mark to upper fore-edges, otherwise unmarked.
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Architectural Detailing Residential Interiors

By: Staebler, Wendy W.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Watson-Guptill Publications: 1990

Seller ID: 029670

ISBN: 0823002535

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

An unmarked copy, lower corners lightly bumped. From modestly budgeted projects to the most costly, from city apartments to large private houses, this book showcases some of today's most elegant and imaginative work in residential interiors.
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