Chicago: Portland Cement Association, 1927. Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards, 60 pp., 11 color plates, 31 BW plates. A slim but lavishly illustrated book of essays on the topic: The Edgewater Beach Hotel [Chicago] / Benjamin H. Marshall ; Shrine of the Sacred Heart [Washington DC] / Frederick V. Murphy ;... More about Concrete in Architecture
New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. Hardcover. Color pictorial paper over boards; 332 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. More about Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice
Kansas City, Missouri: Ernest Kellerstrass, 1910. Hardcover. Brown or green library buckram. 92 pp. BW illustrations. Oversize. If you're questioning whether to buy, take this tip from the title page: "Persons who do not own the book have no right to use any of the plans or drawings." More about The Kellerstrass Way of Building Poultry Houses, Brooder Houses, Incubator Cellars, Copps and...
Bethany, Connecticut: Laticrete International, Inc., 1998. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; 200 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw photos and drawings. More about Direct Adhered Ceramic Tile, Stone and Thin Brick Facades: Technical Design Manual
1918. second revised and enlarged. Hardbound. Red publishers cloth. xvii, 292 pp., 200 illustrations. A very solid reading copy, but not for the perfectionist. More about Cast Iron in the light of recent research
New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 140 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw figures. Discusses recent advances in the digital-fabrication techniques of sectioning, tessellating, folding, contouring, and forming; Features projects by Martti Kalliala and Esa Ruskeepaa with Martin Lukasczyk, Monica Ponce... More about Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques
Washington, D.C. Foundation for Preservation Technology for the Association for Preservation Technology, 1983. Softcover. Cream & illus. wraps, 224 pp., BW illus. A collection of seven essays dealing with a variety of building-related topics: The historic development of hand forged iron builders' hardware / Donald Streeter -- Chicago balloon frame... More about The Technology of Historic American Buildings: Studies of the Materials, Craft Processes, and the...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949. Hardbound. Blue cloth.127 pp., illustrated in bw. More about The Architecture of Bridges
Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2008. Hardbound. Black cloth with grey and white lettering; color illustrated dj with red and white lettering; 159 pp. with numerous color photographs. Explores the work of stonemason John Morris, who uses the tradional art of hand-chiseling with native stone. Stunning photographs on... More about Stone Designs for the Home
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Hardbound. Terracotta cloth with color photographic dj and white lettering; protective Brodart cover; 237 pp. with profuse color and bw illustrations. The story of adobe building construction and living, from North and West Africa to the Iberian Peninsula to New Mexico, illustrated with more... More about Adobe: Building and Living with Earth
Munchen / Basel: Callwey Verlag; Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture, 2001. Softcover. Blue wraps with color illustration. 104 pp. Profusely illustrated, some color. In English and German. From the back of cover: Contemporary landscape architects are breaking free from the constraints of a design philosophy which had advocated natural elements and the... More about Stucco, Stone, and Steel : new materials in open space design = Stuck, Stein und Stahl : Neue...
Charlottesville, Virginia: The University of Virginia Press, 1984. Hardbound. Tan cloth with maroon spine and gold lettering; 114 pp. with several bw illustrations. With topics of Palladio, Palladianism and Palladianists 1570-1730; Palladio in Southside Virginia: Brandon and Battersea; Pattern Books in American Architecture 1730-1930; and Palladio in Tidewater Virginia: Mount... More about Building by the Book I: Palladian Studies in America
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Cream cloth, blue & color illus. dust jacket, 152 pp., BW & color illus. "Introduces a new and exciting technique for salvaging the natural land upon which we build new homes, new offices, or even new shopping centers. ... -- the Envelope, an... More about Building Inside Nature's Envelope: How New Construction and Land Preservation Can Work Together
New York: David Williams Company, 1905. Hardcover. Tan cloth, library binding; 364 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw, inc. one fold-out plate. Twelve issues of Carpentry and Building magazine, including an index, from 1905. More about Carpentry and Building, Vol. XXVII, 1905
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of The Interior, 1993. Softbound. BW illustrated stapled wraps. 51 pp. Scarce. More about Historic Masonry Deterioration and Repair Techniques: An Annotated Bibliography
no place noted: Portland Cement Association, nd. Softcover. Grey ill. stapled wraps. 27 pp. Numerous bw ills. More about Portland Cement: Stucco Surfacing
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. Fourth. Hardcover. Color pictorial paper over boards; 900 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw photos and drawings. Textbook with twenty-four chapters and a glossary of terms. More about Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods
2002: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Third. Hardcover. Blue printed boards, no DJ. 410 pp. BW illustrations throughout. Expert technical guidance for the earliest stags of building design. A recommended study reference for the Building Planning section of the Architect's Registration Exam and an invaluable sourcebook that can save architects... More about The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1909. Hardcover. Brown cloth. xv, 745 pp. 244+ bw ills. More about A Treatise on Masonry Construction
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of The Interior, 1993. Softbound. BW illustrated stapled wraps. 52 pp., More about Twentieth Century Building Materials: 1900-1950: An Annotated Bibliography
Philadelphia: The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania, 1931. Hardcover. Brown boards. 103 pp. + Numerous bw plates, + extensive appendices. More about Early Freemasonry in Pennsylvania
Norwalk, CT: Silvermine Publishers, 1966. Hardcover. Red cloth/white DJ. 181 pp. Numeorus bw plates. This book was written for The Committee on Historic Buildings of the American Institute of Architects, with a foreword by Morris Ketchum, Jr. and presents a clear description of steps and procedures essential to authentic restoration... More about The Restoration Manual
Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1913. Vols. 2, 3, and 4 only. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Vol. 2, 394 pp. Vol. 3, 376 pp. Vol 4, 392 pp. Each volume has profuse bw ills. More about Cyclopedia of Carpentry and Contracting: A General Reference Work on Carpentry, Building,...
Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011. Hardbound. Blue-gray glossy illustrated laminate boards, [vii] 263pp, profuse color plates. The environment of a university – what we term a campus – has long been the setting for some of history’s most exciting experiments in the design of the built environment. Christopher Wren at Cambridge..... More about University Planning and Architecture: The Search for Perfection
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of The Interior, 1993. Softbound. BW illustrated stapled wraps. 68 pp. Scarce. More about Historic Concrete: An Annotated Bibliography
