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From ancient Chinese civilization to the postmodern world Organized along a global timeline, A Global History of Architecture presents an innovative approach to the study of architectural history. Spanning from 3,500 B.C.E. to the present, this unique guide is written by an all-star team of architectural experts in their fields who emphasize the connections, contrasts, and influences of architectural movements throughout history. The architectural history of the world comes to life through a unified framework for interpreting and understanding architecture, supplemented by rich drawings from...
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A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Phillip IV (Revised and Expanded Edition)

By: Brown, Jonathan; Elliott, John H.

Price: $36.72 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2004-01-01

Seller ID: 0300101856-4-24463356

ISBN-13: 9780300101850

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since...
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A View from the River: The Chicago Architecture Foundation's River Cruise (Pomegranate Catalog)

By: Jay Pridmore; Hedrich Blessing [Photographer]; Chicago Architecture Foundation [Collaborator];

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Pomegranate : 2000-04-30

Seller ID: 0764913336-4-26886881

ISBN-13: 9780764913334

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The full-page layout of photographs by architectural photographer Hedrich Blessing, which show the magnificent skyscrapers of Chicago in a variety of complementary light conditions, reproduce the popular Chicago Architecture Foundation tours. An informative text accompanies the photos on the facing
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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

By: Ching, Francis D. K.

Price: $13.07 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 1995-02-23

Seller ID: 0471284513-3-26622369

ISBN-13: 9780471284512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching's signature style.
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Adobe: Building and Living With Earth

By: Romero, Orlando; Larkin, David; Freeman, Michael [Photographer]

Price: $4.08 USD

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin : 1994-01-01

Seller ID: 0395566932-3-26496308

ISBN-13: 9780395566930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

This book tells the story of adobe, sun-dried brick houses, popular in the desert Southwest and California. It is a story that travels from Asia and North America to the Iberian Peninsula, from the history-filled Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the homes of the famous inhabitants in the hills of Taos. It is a book that is both historical and cultural.
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AIA Guide to Chicago

By: Sinkevitch, Alice

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Harvest Books : 2004-04-12

Seller ID: 0156029081-3-25501331

ISBN-13: 9780156029087

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Completely revised and updated, this is the liveliest and most wide-ranging guide ever written about Chicago's amazing architecture Thousands of visitors flock to Chicago every year - just for the architecture...and the blues, and the food, and... The AIA Guide to Chicago, Second Edition, showcases more than 1,000 individual buildings, along with more than 400 photographs - many taken expressly for this volume - plus 35 specially commissioned walking maps. The book is arranged geographically so that the user can tour each area of the city as conveniently as possible. Building descriptions focu...
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AIA Guide to New York City

By: White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot

Price: $10.63 USD

Publisher: Three Rivers Press : 2000-06-01

Seller ID: 0812931076-11-28247172

ISBN-13: 9780812931075

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

Now in its eighth edition, this work aims to be an ideal starting point for all practitioners and covers the broad range of injunctions in one volume. The author's practical treatment provides a description of the jurisdiction of the court to grant injunctions, as well as guidance on practice and procedure and Mareva injunctions and Anton Piller orders. The coverage spans all areas of the law, with particular attention paid to matrimonial and domestic proceedings. In addition, there are over 20 useful precedents, which, in conjunction with the procedural points, should make this an indispensab...
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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta

By: Gournay, Isabelle; Sams, Gerald [Editor]; Beswick, Paul [Photographer]; White, Dana F. [Foreword];

Price: $4.68 USD

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : 1992-12-01

Seller ID: 0820314501-3-26083521

ISBN-13: 9780820314501

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

This lively guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area--from the sleek marble and glass of the Coca-Cola Tower to the lancet arches and onion domes of the Fox Theater, from the quiet stateliness of Roswell's antebellum mansions to the art-deco charms of the Varsity grill. Published in conjunction with the Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it combines historical, descriptive, and critical commentary with more than 250 photographs and area maps. As the book makes clear, Atlanta has two faces: the "Traditional City," striving to strike a b...
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Alabama Architecture: Looking at Building and Place

By: Bowsher, Alice; Kennedy Jr, M. Lewis; Moss Jr, Charles A. [Introduction]

Price: $11.44 USD

Publisher: University Alabama Press : 2001-04-18

Seller ID: 0817310819-5-23132566

ISBN-13: 9780817310813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

Signed by Author
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Along The Royal Roads To Angkor

By: Ishizawa, Yoshiaki

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Weatherhill : 1999-07-01

Seller ID: 0834804727-3-27199233

ISBN-13: 9780834804722

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

From the ninth to the fifteenth century, the Angkor Empire was the greatest civilization in Southeast Asia, reaching from the coast of Vietnam to Myanmar, from southern Laos down to the Malay Peninsula. At the heart of this great kingdom ruled by god-kings rose the magnificent towers of Angkor Wat and the nearby capital city of Angkor Thom. The rulers of Angkor were great builders and engineers. They fed their people with a sophisticated irrigation system that made the Cambodian plains green year-round, and they built a network of roads connecting the capital to all the major outlying cities. ...
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

By: Langewiesche, William

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: North Point Press : 2002-10-24

Seller ID: 0865475822-4-27815853

ISBN-13: 9780865475823

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

The unsung-and revealing-story of the Herculean effort to finish the dismantling that terrorism began Unlike any other reporter, William Langewiesche has had unrestricted access to Ground Zero and the people involved in the cleanup. He has literally followed in the footsteps of engineers, "deconstruction" workers, firemen, and city officials as they tackle the mind-numbing task of bringing order to an instance of chaos unprecedented on our soil. "American Ground" is a tour of the interlocking circles of this Dantesque world. With the "knowledge and passion as well as ...careful eloquence" for ...
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American Ruins

By: Vergara, Camilo J.

Price: $7.51 USD

Publisher: The Monacelli Press : 1999-12-06

Seller ID: 1580930565-3-28965889

ISBN-13: 9781580930567

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The deterioration of the American inner city stands in stark contrast to the prosperity characteristic of the United States for much of the twentieth century. Skyscrapers that once defined the modern era stand derelict and abandoned. Massive industrial manufactories lie rusting, their cavernous interiors dark. Formerly vibrant theaters shed bricks and terra-cotta ornaments. These desolate fragments of America's cityscapes are the legacy of decades of proud investment in the urban realm followed by decades of devastating neglect. Photographer and sociologist Camilo Jose Vergara has spent years ...
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An Architect in Italy

By: Mauduit, Caroline

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: Clarkson Potter : 1988-12-12

Seller ID: 0517569809-3-27751663

ISBN-13: 9780517569801

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Analysing Architecture

By: Unwin, Simon

Price: $5.05 USD

Publisher: Routledge : 1997-06-25

Seller ID: 0415144787-4-24399735

ISBN-13: 9780415144780

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

Offers an introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. The examples in the text are drawn from across architectural history - from prehistoric primitive places, to temples, cottages and late 20th-century structures - to illustrate a number of themes and to show how drawing can be used as an analytical tool. The book takes the form of, and encourages the use of, a notebook of architectural strategies, breaking down the vocabulary of architecture. It explores the underlying patterns of architecture to reveal the organizational strategies which lie beneath the superficial appear...
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Antonio Sant' Elia (Archipockets)

By: Cuito, Aurora

Price: $21.43 USD

Publisher: Te Neues Pub Group : 2003-01-01

Seller ID: 3823855476-11-23232548

ISBN-13: 9783823855477

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Antonio Sant?Elia (Como 1888-Monfalcone, 1916), a notable Italian futurist architect was, especially after his early death, an important influence on the evolution of modern architecture. He studied in Milan and Bologna. He undertook few commissions and those which were completed were either later demolished or transformed. His imaginative drawings for future cities were displayed in 1914. He wrote two theoretical essays: Messagio and Manifesto dell?architettura futurista. In his projects the influence of the Vienna Secession, especially that of Otto Wagner, can be discerned, as well as the im...
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Archabet: An Architectural Alphabet Postcard Book

By: Balthazar Korab

Price: $4.06 USD

Publisher: Preservation Press : 1992-01-01

Seller ID: 0891331921-3-27472798

ISBN-13: 9780891331926

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Architect's Essentials of Contract Negotiation (The Architect's Essentials of Professional Practice)

By: Abramowitz, Ava J.

Price: $3.47 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 2002-04-09

Seller ID: 0471443654-1-23089363

ISBN-13: 9780471443650

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

For architects, negotiation is explicit in every aspect of practice, just as it is implicit in every aspect of design. And now you can develop or refine the negotiation skills you need with the help of this concise, easy-to-follow guide. Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this volume in the Professional Practice Series offers accessible, practical coverage of contract negotiation essentials related to growth, expansion, new management, internal transitions, mergers, acquisitions, liquidations, retirement, and more. Also, like all the books in this series, the information you'll fi...
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Architect's Essentials of Cost Management

By: Dell'Isola, Michael D.

Price: $3.62 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 2002-04-01

Seller ID: 047144359X-3-27800828

ISBN-13: 9780471443599

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Written by a cost-control expert with more than thirty years of design and building expertise, this volume in the Professional Practice Essentials Series gives you practical, user-friendly guidance on how to better manager costs through all phases of a project. Dell'Isola first explains the basics of cost management-from estimating costs during the design phase to managing costs during construction and even after occupancy. He then covers all of the tools and techniques available to architects/designers and explains how best to use them. A number of useful case studies clearly show how the aut...
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Architect's Essentials of Marketing

By: Koren, David

Price: $5.78 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 2004-09-17

Seller ID: 0471463647-3-26194699

ISBN-13: 9780471463641

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Easy access to crucial marketing information for design professionals Find the concise, practical business information you need right now in the Architect's Essentials of Professional Practice Series. These authoritative guides quickly make you an instant expert on the best business practices crucial for success in today's design and construction professions. Each portable, affordable, user-friendly volume gives you: * Authoritative advice from leading national figures * Flip-and-find access to critical business information * Bulleted lists and callout boxes for quick reference * Clear, insig...
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Architect's Professional Practice Manual

By: Franklin, James

Price: $3.76 USD

Publisher: McGraw Hill : 2000-04-20

Seller ID: 0071358366-3-26077944

ISBN-13: 9780071358361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A compendium of well-tested methods, valuable tips, contracts, forms, checklists, and other tools in a graphics-oriented, at-a-glance formatThe time-saving professional secrets, the management-expediting skills, and the marketing savvy that have made Jim Franklin's American Institute of Architects seminars famous - this book gives you them all, and more. In an appealingly easy-access, illustrated format, Jim ...
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Architectural Graphic Standards

By: Ramsey, Charles George; Sleeper, Harold Reeve

Price: $3.87 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 1989-01-17

Seller ID: 0471620602-3-28950794

ISBN-13: 9780471620600

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Two-thirds the information of the parent edition at one-third the price. Abridged from the Architectural Graphics Standards, long the most respected source of design standards for the profession. This condensed, paperback version includes less reference material, but contains virtually all the important design information related to the planning, design, and detailing of architectural projects found in Architectural Graphics Standards, 7th Edition. Indispensible to students in design, drafting, building construction, and environmental planning.
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Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design

By: Duerk, Donna P.

Price: $3.61 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 1993-09-17

Seller ID: 0471284688-4-26387315

ISBN-13: 9780471284680

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

A comprehensive programming reference with practical, targeted guidance While the field continues to grow and evolve, Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design remains a robust reference for working professionals. Offering both instruction and applications, this book is an invaluable reference for anyone involved in architectural project management. The first part of the book focuses on goals, requirements, concepts, and issues related to programming before transitioning into the everyday applications of information management in a typical firm. Case studies illustrate how p...
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Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings

By: Littlefield, David; Lewis, Saskia; de Botton, Alain [Preface]

Price: $25.09 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 2007-12-10

Seller ID: 0470016736-11-28975704

ISBN-13: 9780470016732

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

If a building could speak, what would it say? What would it sound like? Would it be worth listening to? This book treats buildings as deeply human creations - built by people for people; they come to embody the dreams, imaginings and stories that take place within them. David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis argue that buildings have voices and that it is worth listening to what they have to say. By focusing on elderly structures that are the subject of reinvention, this book examines how the buildings guide architects and artists. These reinventions, or re-imaginings, are not merely examples of...
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Architectural Working Drawings, Fourth Edition

By: Liebing, Ralph W.

Price: $8.18 USD

Publisher: Wiley : 1999-09-13

Seller ID: 0471348767-3-28570824

ISBN-13: 9780471348764

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

The classic guide for students and young professionals, fully revised and updated This new edition of the classic text that has become a standard in architecture curricula gives students in-depth understanding and insight for improving architectural working drawings through the integration of traditional guidelines, standards, and fundamentals with today's CAD operations. Ralph Liebing uses detailed coverage to emphasize the importance of learning the basics first, while encouraging mastery and application of a broad array of techniques and procedures. Architectural Working Drawings, Fourth ...
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Architecture After Modernism (World of Art)

By: Ghirardo, Diane

Price: $3.76 USD

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : 1996-11-17

Seller ID: 050020294X-3-22974109

ISBN-13: 9780500202944

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Its discussion of the reshaping of urban environment focuses on London's Dockland, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar Britain. It also considers the work of lesser-known designers and women architects as well as famous international stars.
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Architecture and Interior Design Through the 18th Century: An Integrated History

By: Harwood, Buie; May, Bridget; Sherman, Curt

Price: $4.20 USD

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 2001-12-15

Seller ID: 013758590X-3-20371014

ISBN-13: 9780137585908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Designed for courses in interior design, rather than art history, this ambitious volume presents a survey of architecture, interiors, furniture, and decorative arts through the 18th century. Succinct summaries of the history of each era are provided in chapters that describe art and architecture fro
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Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi (Theoretical Perspectives in Architectura)

By: Bloomer, Ms. Jennifer

Price: $8.68 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 1993-04-28

Seller ID: 0300049277-3-26359494

ISBN-13: 9780300049275

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

Architecture is Elementary: Visual Thinking Through Architectural Concepts

By: Winters, Nathan B

Price: $3.90 USD

Publisher: Gibbs Smith : 2005-09-02

Seller ID: 1586858297-3-23705820

ISBN-13: 9781586858292

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Awarded for its unique ink illustrations, this newly revised edition of Architecture is Elementary is a self-instruction book that concisely and coherently discusses the principles of architectural design. Stimulating lessons challenge the lay person and trigger creative responses. New features include a fresh design and layout, 50 new illustrations of recent and planned buildings, and new lessons that update the book for the world of twenty-first-century architecture. Author Nathan Winters explains the rationale for developers choosing to build higher and taller with modern high-rises, and ex...
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