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Architecture & Design

1. Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

   Traci Rose Rider

   Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.More

2. Hidcote: The Making of a Garden

   Ethne Clarke, Roy Strong

   Revised edition

   A new and enlarged edition of the standard reference on an internationally revered English garden and its designer.More

3. American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors: 1870-1960

   Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings

   A comprehensive examination of American vernacular buildings.More

4. The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

   Deyan Sudjic

   A brilliant exposé of the interaction between art, design, and commerce.More

5. Rethinking Sitting

   Peter Opsvik

   A Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs.More

6. Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production

   Marshall Lee

   Third Edition

   The third edition aims to provide a complete guide to bookmaking, and includes discussion of the fundamental changes that the computer has had on the overall process.
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7. Inspired by Nature: Animals: The Building/Biology Connection

   Alejandro Bahamón, Patricia Pérez

   A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.More

8. Pocket Guide to Los Angeles Architecture

   Judith Paine McBrien, John F. DeSalvo

   This guidebook organizes 100 architectural highlights into three walkable downtown tours and two side trips.More

9. Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts

   Robert Twombly

   The most influential, provocative, and enduring writings of the American master are gathered in this anthology.More

10. Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935

    Michael C. Kathrens

    A survey of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, for all who love grand houses.More

11. Michael Taylor: Interior Design

    Stephen M. Salny

    The life and work of the groundbreaking interior designer and inventor of the "California Look."More

12. The Human City: Kings Cross: 03: Roger Madelin / Demetri Porphyrios

    Yale School of Architecture, George Knight, Nina Rappaport, Et Al.

    This book documents the third collaborative developer/architect studio at the Yale School of Architecture.More

13. Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society

    Wayne Craven

    A lavishly illustrated history of the opulent art and architecture of the Gilded Age.More

14. Making of the Morgan from Charles McKim to Renzo Piano

    Paul S. Byard

    In 1906, in the heart of New York City, Pierpont Morgan built a private library intended to rival the great art institutions of Europe. In 1924, The Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum became a public institution.More

15. Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

    Hilary French

    The design of multiple housing – a new building type, especially for growing urban populations – was a major new area of activity for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century, and one that continues into the twenty-first century.More