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New York: H. Holt, 1991. Paperback. Brown paper wraps. 231 pgs. Illustrations. This is a publishers uncorrected proof of the book, Letter from publilsher stapled to front cover. More
New York: H. Holt, 1991. Paperback. Brown paper wraps. 231 pgs. Illustrations. This is a publishers uncorrected proof of the book, Letter from publilsher stapled to front cover. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Black stamped cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Glossy gray and illustrated dust jacket with white and black lettering. xiv, 203 pp. BW illustrations. Photography by Randy Tindall. "Drawing on interviews as well as empirical research, the authors examine the various ethnic influences..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992. Softcover. Gray & illus. wraps, 390 pp., some BW illus. A collection of 12 essays related to the general topic. Contributors are Meaghan Morris, Laura Mulvey, Beatriz Colomina, Patricia White, Jennifer Bloomer, Lynn Spigel, Victor Burgin, Elizabeth Grosz, Catherine Ingraham, Alessandra Ponte, Molly Nesbit..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Salmon cloth. gilt lettering; photo frontispiece. xiv, 190 pp. 124 bw plates. First edition of this very important study and documentation. More
Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1968. Essay Index Reprint Series. Hardcover. Teal boards; gilt lettering on maroon title box on spine. 172 pp. with 45 bw illus. The lectures in this volume comprise the 11th series delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago on the Scammon Foundation. Contents..... More
Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press / The Art Institute of Chicago, 1915. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 172 pp. with 45 bw illus. The lectures in this volume comprise the 11th series delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago on the Scammon Foundation..... More
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Transportation, 1978. Softcover. Blue pictorial wraps with red lettering; 83 pp. with photographs and architectural drawings throughout. A basic guideline for successful adaptive reuse of historic stations and the feasibility thereof. More
Basel/Boston: Birkhäuser, 2001. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards, Tan/gray dust jacket, white spine with black and tan lettering, 231 pp, illustrated in bw and color. Contents include: Building landscape -- Relative objects -- Sectional topographies -- Program effect -- Episodic monumentality -- Additions interventions. More
Mulgrave: Images Publishing, 2011. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, black and color-illustrated dust jacket with multi-colored lettering. 224 pp. Color illustrations. From the celebrated author of Houses of God, Architecture for Architects and many other popular titles, comes this book on New York's most celebrated living architects, the latest new-generation practitioners..... More
London: Pall Mall, 2012. Softcover. White wraps, color illustrated with black lettering, 237 pp, richly illustrated in mostly color throughout. "First published in English in 2007 by Electa Architecture"--Title page verso. Contents: The backwards game / Mercedes Daguerre -- Alessandro's house, Brazil 1998 / Andrade & Morettin -- House on..... More
Albany: 1967. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards. viii, 192 pages : illustrations, portraits. Pages 188-192 blank./ Includes index. More
New York: R.R. Smith, 1945. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with black title lettering. Tan dj with illustration. 3 preliminary leaves, [vi]-viii, [119] pages including frontispiece : illustrations (including maps). More
Philadelphia: Drexel & Co., 1927. Hardbound. Light blue-gray boards with tan cloth spine with gold lettering, 43pp, 10 BW and color plates. A book privately printed by the Drexel Company on the history of the company/building(s) it occupied. Includes a mounted wood engraving by Timothy Cole and an original etching..... More
Lancaster, OH: Fairfield Heritage Association, 1994. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering and design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, brown dust jacket with white lettering and color illustrations, decorative end pages, x, 186 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. Photography by Judy Morehead and..... More
Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press, 1997. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, gold & illus. dust jacket, 154 pp., few BW illus. "In the first century B.C., Vitruvius Pollio narrated a myth of the origins of dwelling. In a forest clearing, previously isolated and savage people gathered about..... More
Arlington, Texas: The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008. Softcover. White wraps with sky blue lettering on spine and French front flap; 300 pp. with color and bw images throughout. A volume covering the work of students at the School of Architecture, information about the visiting professors, the degree programs..... More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott, 1912. Hardcover. Green cloth with color illustration at front cover; Top edges gilt; 365 pp.; 72 bw illustrations. Features fifty-six Philadelphia homes and the families who lived there, including Bishop White House, Powel House, Wharton House, Bartram House, Belmont, the Grange, Grumblethorpe, Upsala, Pennypacker's Mills..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardbound. Dark green boards with gold lettering, [xxxi] 401pp, 374 BW illustrations. This book represents an elaboration and revision of three lectures on modern American architecture which the author was asked to give for the Henry La Barre Jayne Foundation in Philadelphia. Contents: The..... More
Immenstadt: Verlag Hepaistos, 200. Hardcover. German and English language text. Light grey boards with colour photograph. 231 pages : illustrations, portraits. Artists included: Martin Breidenbach, Y. Und H. Ishikura, Paul Margetts, Vladimir Markov, Daniel Miller, Brian Russel, Arpad Safranek, and Edda Sandstede./ In German and English. More
New York: The Century Company, 1909. Hardcover. Olive cloth boards with BW-embossed illustration and black lettering. xvi, 264 pages. BW illustrations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. -Google Books Chapters include: New..... More
Sao Paulo: Romiti and Lanzara, 1940. Softcover. Off white printed stiff wraps, glued. 36 pp. of text, 508 full-page photographic illustrations. A lengthy and substantial photographic record of the many architectural and cultural treasures which Brazil possesses. A sumptuous volume, and one of the first attempts at documenting these many..... More
New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Madelaine Thatcher. First. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Grey illus. dj.; 299 pp.; Profusely illustrated with 300+ bw figures. Both a style and historical guide to the many different types of American homes, from Colonial, Regency, and Georgian to Cape Cod, Spanish..... More
New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Madelaine Thatcher. First. Softcover. Off-white illus. wraps; 299 pp.; Profusely illustrated with 300+ bw figures. Both a style and historical guide to the many different types of American homes, from Colonial, Regency, and Georgian to Cape Cod, Spanish mission, Ecological, and more..... More
New York: Payson & Clarke, Ltd., 1928. Hardcover. Cream cloth; 79 pp. text followed by 122 pp.; richly illustrated. More
London / New York: Spon Press, 2001 (1999). Reprint. Softcover. Yellow and orange wraps, 148 pp. Profuse B/W illustrations. From the back cover: By addressing both the theory of sustainable urban form and the need for applicable design guidelines to generate such a form, a strategic urban design approach is..... More