Building Types

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  1. Book ImageThe 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

  2. Book ImageKey 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

  3. Book ImageAmerican 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

  4. Book ImageDams

    Christine Macy

    A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States.More

  5. Book ImageKey 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

  6. Book ImageKey Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections and Elevations

    Rob Gregory

    A collection of more than one hundred twenty-first-century buildings of particular interest for study by students and professionals.
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  7. Book ImagePublic Markets

    Helen Tangires

    An illustrated history of the buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace for fresh food.More

  8. Book ImageHow to Build an Igloo: And Other Snow Shelters

    Norbert E. Yankielun, Amelia Bauer

    How are the ice blocks of igloos so perfectly formed and fitted, and able, it’s been said, to withstand the weight of a polar bear?More

  9. Book ImageBuilding Details

    Frank M. Snyder, Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker

    Between 1906 and 1914, New York architect Frank M. Snyder published Building Details, a serial produced in twelve parts over eight years.More

  10. Book ImageBridges

    Richard L. Cleary

    An account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved.
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  11. Book ImageLighthouses

    Sara E. Wermiel

    The fourth title in the Norton/Library of Congress series, this abundantly illustrated book conveys the romance and beauty of lighthouses and beacons while explaining the development of the forms, materials, architecture, and engineering of their structure: wood, masonry, cast-iron plate, on- and off-shore skeletal, caisson, and reinforced concrete. 
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  12. Book ImageCelebrating the Courthouse: A Guide for Architects, Their Clients, and the Public

    Steven Flanders

    Illuminates the issues that must be addressed in designing a suitable and successful courthouse.More

  13. Book ImageKey Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations

    Colin Davies

    A companion to the popular Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century, this book includes classic residential works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, as well as houses by more recent masters such as Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, and Glen Murcutt.More

  14. Book ImageTheaters

    Craig Morrison

    The latest title in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Theaters offers a richly illustrated history of a revered cultural artifact and a technological challenge, following its progression from the eighteenth-century opera house to the modern movie multiplex.More

  15. Book ImageCanals

    Robert J. Kapsch

    A richly illustrated history of America's first transportation system.More

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