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Architecture Guides

1. 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

2. Animals in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City

   Robert Arthur King

   A delightful collection of creatures that adorn New York City buildings.More

3. 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

4. Faces in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City

   Robert Arthur King, Allison Silver

   A delightful collection of quirky faces and figures that people New York City buildings.More

5. Havana Deco

   Alejandro G. Alonso, Pedro Contreras, Martino Fagiuoli

   An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana, this colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own.More

6. The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses by Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johansen, Philip Johnson, Eliot Noyes, and Others

   William D. Earls

   A virtual tour of thirty-five landmark houses, 1947-1966, built in a quiet New England community.More

7. The Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center

   Christine Roussel, Thomas Hoving

   The first easy-to-navigate illustrated guidebook to the wonderful sculptures, murals, bas-reliefs, and mosaics of this Art Deco showplace.More

8. The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 262 Key Modern American Buildings

   Sydney LeBlanc

   Architecture is the heart and soul of cities--it shows not just a place, but the spirit of the place.
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9. Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture

   Judith Paine McBrien

   “A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago TribuneMore

10. New York for New Yorkers: A Historical Treasury and Guide to the Buildings and Monuments of Manhattan

    Liza M. Greene

    Second Edition

    A celebration of the buildings of New York City and their history with over 600 color illustrations.More