Category: Architecture

Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture

By: Ackerman, James S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2016

Seller ID: 31534

ISBN-13: 9780300218718

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear archival mylar cover. Beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white. Measures 7x10 inches. 232p. An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory
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Palladio (Architecture & Society)

By: Ackerman, James S.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Penguin Books : 1967

Seller ID: 27726

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Rubbed cover. First full account of Palladio's career. Investigates the reasons for his enormous and enduring success. 195p. Index. Bibliographical notes. Illustrated.

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was an Italian architect and is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture.
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Once Upon DESIGN : New Routes for Arabian Heritage

By: Aldabbagh, Noor

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Design Space : 2016

Seller ID: 29412

Binding: Sewn Binding

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Exhibition catalog. 68p in English back-to-back with 60p. in Arabic and 12 color plates between them Measures 7.5x9.5 inches. Beautifully Illustrated.

A one-year research project by Banafsajeel on Reinventing Heritage culminated in a cutting edge contemporary design exhibition produced by 1971 Design Space featuring seven installations that draw inspiration from intangible heritage of the Arabian Peninsula, taken in contemporary design directions.
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Emilo Ambasz: Architectural, Industrial, Graphic Exhibit Design: An exhibition at AXIS, Tokyo, Japan

By: Ambasz, Emilo

Price: $99.00 USD

Publisher: Tokyp, Axis : 1985

Seller ID: 32358

ISBN-13: 9784900450011

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 24p. Measures 8.5x9.5 inches.This beautifully illustrated and designed catalog accompanied a 1985 retrospective exhibition of Ambasz work at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo. The dust jacket was embossed and die-cut. The die-cut pieces can be removed and folded into a three-dimensional representation of two of his architectural projects. Text in English and Japanese. Emilio Ambasz (b. 1943) is an Argentinian-US architect and award-winning industrial designer. From 1969 to 1976 he was Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Ambasz has been labeled as "the father, poet, a...
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The Choir Stalls of Lincoln Minster

By: Anderson, M. D.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The Friends of Lincoln Cathedral : 1967

Seller ID: 22116

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's name and date inside cover. Forty-five B/W illustrations. Includes the making of the stalls, the subjects of the carvings, a catalog of the carvings and plans. 51p.
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The Alhambra and the Generalife

By: Antequera, Marino

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Miguel Sanchez : 1987

Seller ID: 24398

ISBN-13: 9788471690142

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 92p. Previous owner's name on front end page. Tourist guide, color photographs, drawings, foldout plan. Excellent illustrations show how this palace influenced the tiling in M.C. Escher's graphic artworks.
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Stained Glass (Pitkin Guides)

By: Archer, Michael

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Pitkin Guides : 1994

Seller ID: 24878

ISBN-13: 9780853726661

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. Photography by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushington. 28p. Includes history, Bible stories, masterpieces, styles, and more.
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Architectural Digest: Designers' Own Homes (September 2003)

By: Architectural Digest

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Conde-Nast : 2003

Seller ID: 33323

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Measures 8.5x11 inches. 296p. Beautifully illlustrated. Advertisements. An International Magazine of Interior Design. Includes Craig Wright, Melvin Dwork, S. Marc Thee, Sarah Bune, Doug Dworsky, Thad Hayes, James Estes, and others.
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Architectural Digest: The Great Design Issue (May 2003)

By: Architectural Digest

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Conde-Nast : 2003

Seller ID: 32863

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Some edge wear. Measures 8.5x11 inches. 330p. Illustrated. Advertisements. An International Magazine of Interior Design.
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Architectural Digest: Today's Designers Legendary Design (January 2002)

By: Architectural Digest

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Conde-Nast : 2004

Seller ID: 30875

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Features Today's Designers Legendary Design. Includes Alexander Gorlin, Craig Wright, Victoria Hagan, Margaret McCurry, and others. Illustrated. Advertisements. 236p. An International Magazine of Interior Design.
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Architectural Record (December 2005)

By: Architectural Record

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Architectural Record : 2005

Seller ID: 27108

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Well illustrated. Features Design Vanguard: Ten architects build out the ideas. Also the hot products of 2005. Featured firms are Luce et Studio Architects, King Roselli Architetti, Evan Douglis Studio, Urbanus Architecture and Design, Mitnick Roddier Hicks, and others. 384p.
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Der Mainzer Dom und das Dom-Museum

By: Arens, Fritz Viktor

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Verlag zu Mainz : 1948

Seller ID: 26765

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Age tanning and smudging on back. 66 B/W plates and line drawings. Foldout plan inside the back cover. Text in German.
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Theory in Action: Smart Growth Case Studies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Around the Nation

By: Association of Bay Area Governments

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Association of Bay Area Governments : 2000

Seller ID: 33228

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Rubbed cover. Illustrated. 58p. Measures 8.5x11 inches. Includes San Mateo, Denver, Arlington, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, and other locations.
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L'Art Roman en Auvergne (Le Touriste en Auvergne. No. 14.)

By: Balme, D. P.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: De Bussac : 1947

Seller ID: 20313

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Includes drawings, photographs, plans. 62pp. Text in French.
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Unseen London, Paris, New York: Photographs by Wolf Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert

By: Barron, Katy

Price: $24.00 USD

Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery : 2016

Seller ID: 32203

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Exhibition catalog. Black-and-white illustrations. 112p. Measures 10x10.25 inches.

Brings together three major 20th-century photographers--Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert--and their artistic responses to three great world cities across three crucial decades. Biographies.
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The Story of the Privy Garden at Hampton Court

By: Batey, Mavis; Woudstra, Jan

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Barn Elms Handbook : 1995

Seller ID: 29028

ISBN-13: 9781899531011

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Beautifully illustrated in color and B/W. Maps. 34p. Measures 8.25 inches square. Covers the history and reconstruction of the garden. Hampton Court Palace was home to some of England's most famous kings and queens from Henry VIII (1509-47), its first royal resident, to George II (1727-60), its last. The privy, meaning private, garden was created to allow a quiet space for the monarch's exclusive use. Although the gardens had been present during Henry VIII's time, it was William III who instilled his own very definite ideas on the gardens, as reconstructed in the 1990s. • • •...
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Number One Royal Crescent, Bath: An Illustrated Guide and Souvenir

By: Bath Preservation Trust

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Bath Preservation Trust : 1994

Seller ID: 29136

ISBN-13: 9781898954002

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked booklet. Beautifully illustrated. 16p. Measures 8 inches square. Bibliography.

Built by John Wood, the Younger between 1767 and 1774, No. 1 Royal Crescent is the first building at the eastern end of the Royal Crescent in Bath, Somerset. In this historic house museum most of the rooms are furnished to represent life in 18th century Bath.
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Missions of California: Compiled from a series of articles in P. G. and E. Progress

By: Baxter, Don J.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, Pacific Gas and Electric Company : 1970

Seller ID: 24960

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Embossed on title page by previous owner. Previous owner's sticker inside back cover. Illustrated. Maps. 40p.

Missions include San Deigo de Alcala, San Carlos Borromeo, San Gabriel Arcangel, San Francisco de Asis, Santa Clara de Asis, Santa Cruz, Santa Ines, and others.
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The Glass House Revolution: An Inner-City War for Interdependence

By: Bear, Larry Alan

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr : 1990

Seller ID: 25345

ISBN-13: 9780295969299

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Chipping on dust jacket. Notes. Index. 136p. Documents the development of a specific project to locate a computer center in North Philadelphia regarded and how this was a first step toward the revitalization of that economically deprived inner-city area.
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International Architect: An international review of architectural projects, theory, practice and criticism (Number 1, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1979)

By: Beck, Haig (editor)

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Fumehurst Ltd. : 1979

Seller ID: 27122

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Some age tanning, Previous owner's name on contents page. Scrape on back cover. Illustrations throughout in color and B/W. Features Michael Graves, Agrest and Gandelsonas, Foster Associates, and more. 72p. Measures 11.75x11 inches.
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Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture

By: Beckmann, John (Editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press : 1998

Seller ID: 30910

ISBN-13: 9781568981208

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. The Virtual Dimension critically examines the role that digital and immersive technologies have on the methods used by architects, designers, and artists to conceptualize and represent new mediated spaces, topologies, and both real and virtual communities.

Thirty contributors, including Stan Allen, Gareth Branwyn, Char Davies, Manuel Delanda, William J. Mitchell, Paul Virilio, and others.
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Roma/Pacifica and Equal Partners (Berkeley Art Museum, Poster)

By: Berkeley Art Museum

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum : 1999

Seller ID: 20444

Binding: Posters

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 8-sided poster/program for two exhibitions on Architectural Collaborations: Equal Partners: Men and Women Principals in Contemporary Architectural Practice and Roma/Pacifica: The Phoebe Hearst International Architectural Competition and the Berkeley Campus, 1896 - 1930.

On display December 15, 1999-March 19, 2000. One side reads: "An invitation to join us on December 14 for a special preview . . . " Mailing address marked out. Worn bends. Stickers used to close the poster during mailing still attached. Includes poster and program.
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Icons: Magnets of Meaning

By: Betsky, Aaron (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC : 1997

Seller ID: 24634

ISBN-13: 9780811818575

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Contributions by Steven Flusty, Chee Pearlman and David E. Nye. Catalogue for exhibition at the SF MoMA from April 18--Aug 5, 1997. Extensively illustrated.

Includes Twelve Magnets of Meaning (Uniforms of Modernism, Masks of Beauty, Plasticity in a World of Flows, Power Plays, Speed and Sex and Steel, You Are Big Brother, Gadgets Galore, Co-opting the Corporate, Marking the Electrosphere, Slow Buildings for Fast Space, Iconic Foundations, Iconic Monumentality).
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The Romance of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

By: Blackburne, Harry W; Bond, Maurice F.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: St George's Chapel : 1958

Seller ID: 29054

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Cover design represents the Lion of England, one of the King's Beasts on the roof of St. George's Chapel. Fifth edition. Black and white plates throughout. 90p. Measures 4.75x7.25 inches. Topics include the Order of the Garter, the music in the chapel, the Cloisters, the 1950s restoration and more.
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Warkworth Castle Northumberland (English Heritage)

By: Blair, C. H. Hunter; Honeyman, H. L.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: English Heritage : 1986

Seller ID: 28100

ISBN-13: 9781850740186

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. Some smudging on cover. Map. Plan. Black and white illustrations. 28p. Warkworth Castle is a ruined medieval building in the village of the same name in the English county of Northumberland.
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Category: Architecture