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Stone House Construction
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 77.00A comprehensive study of Australian stone building techniques in a residential context. more...
Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids
Chicago Review Press 1994; US$ 13.99Stimulating projects enable kids to grasp the ideas underlying Wright's work. more...
The Story of Post-Modernism
Wiley 2012; US$ 110.00In The Story of Post-Modernism , Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and... more...
Modern Architecture
OUP Oxford 2002; US$ 20.99This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters.Alan... more...
10 Buildings that Changed America
Agate Publishing 2013; US$ 35.0010 Buildings that Changed America is the story of our country's most influential works of architecture and the people who imagined them. It is a journey across America and inside these groundbreaking works of art and engineering. more...
An American Proceeding
Meadowside Press 2013; US$ 21.99The story of the man who built his own Frank Lloyd Wright House more...
American Architecture and Urbanism
Trinity University Press 2013; US$ 19.95A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines architecture as a continuing dialogue between generations... more...
Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation... more...
Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 30.95Have you ever wondered how the ideas behind the world?s greatest architectural designs came about? What process does an architect go through to design buildings which become world-renowned for their excellence? This book reveals the secrets behind these buildings. He asks you to ?read? the building and understand its starting point by analyzing... more...
Freestanding Houses
Springer 2010; US$ 44.95To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design, as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied, a deeper grasp of the underlying types is indispensable. For this typology of residential... more...









