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Architecture & Design

1. How to Put Your Book Together and Get a Job in Advertising

   Maxine Paetro

   Newly Revised Edition

   In print for over thirty years, the advertising industry bible and ultimate insider’s guide to getting in and getting noticed.More

2. Planning and Community Development: A Guide for the 21st Century

   Norman Tyler, Robert M. Ward

   An ideal introduction to community planning for students, planners, local officials, community leaders, and citizens.More

3. The Architecture of Patterns

   Paul Andersen, David Salomon, Sanford Kwinter

   Providing a precise and expansive definition of patterns, this book reveals new organizational strategies for architects to follow.More

4. The Acoustics of Performance Halls: Spaces for Music from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl

   J. Christopher Jaffe, Leo L. Beranek

   An acclaimed acoustician presents a proven methodology for designing successful venues for concert performance in a variety of building types.More

5. Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts

   Frederick Law Olmstead, Robert Twombly

   An anthology of the key writings of the best-known and arguably most prolific landscape architect in U.S. history.More

6. Comparative Architectural Details: A Selection from Pencil Points 1932-1937

   Milton Wilfred Grenfell

   Architectural details from an architectural journal of the 1930s indispensable to everyone in the drafting room today.More

7. Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

   Richard Weston

   Second Edition

   An analysis of influential work by seminal architects, including Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas.More

8. The Architecture of Harry Weese

   Robert Bruegmann, Kathleen Murphy Skolnik

   This study tells the story of one of America’s most gifted architects of the postwar years.More

9. American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design

   Eric M. Wolf

   Exploring the intersections of art, architecture, and design, at both renowned institutions and cutting-edge contemporary collections.More

10. Rematerial: From Waste to Architecture

    Alejandro Bahamón, Maria Camila Sanjinés

    How someone else’s waste can become the next designer’s building material.More

11. Charles Rennie Mackintosh

    James Macaulay, Mark Fiennes

    A major architectural study of one of the pioneers of modernism.More

12. Inclusive Housing: A Pattern Book: Design for Diversity and Equality

    Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Edward Steinfeld, Jonathan White

    Why inclusive housing is necessary to achieve important urban goals and describes how to design in a variety of contexts.More

13. Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage

    Cathryn Griffith, Dick Cluster, Eusebio Leal Spengler

    This beautifully illustrated book documents the history, preservation, and present uses of Havana’s most important buildings and urban spaces.More

14. The Architecture of Bart Prince: A Pragmatics of Place

    Christopher Curtis Mead

    Revised and Updated

    With a look at new buildings by Bart Prince, this book examines the work of a uniquely American contemporary architect.More

15. Great Public Squares: An Architect's Selection

    Robert F. Gatje

    Forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world, analyzed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison.More