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Planning Successful Museum Building Projects
AltaMira Press 2009; US$ 33.99Planning Successful Museum Building Projects provides comprehensive, practical guidance on planning, financing, implementing, managing, and evaluating all kinds of museum construction projects. more...
Architecture of Expo 2010 Shanghai
Paths International 2011; US$ 40.00This vital book captures and presents more than 60 examples of architecture and design created and built for World Expo 2010 Shanghai in four chapters, with content and design examples submitted by the architects involved in creating these landmark buildings. more...
Creating Cohousing
New Society Publishers 2011; US$ 32.95The cohousing ?bible? by the US originators of the concept. more...
The Invisible Element of Place
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 40.00"Even though it's bold, it doesn't shout at you," David Salmela says of the silvery house he designed for a woodsy setting in Deephaven, Minnesota. "It's not a barking dog. It's a resting, very gentle animal." The American Institute of Architects, conferring its 2008 Housing Award, was more direct: the house was,... 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...
Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities
Wiley 2013; US$ 85.00Essential information for the design of college and university facilities Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the planning process and successfully complete the design of college and university buildings, large or... more...
"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 19.95In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions... more...
Garden Houses and Privies
Wiley 2002; US$ 85.00An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies--also known as "garden houses"--have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line... more...









