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  1. Book ImageLong Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them

    Cynthia Zaitzevsky

    An account of eminent women landscape architects who flourished in the golden age of country estates.More

  1. Book ImageFrederick 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

  2. Book ImageComparative 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

  3. 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

  4. Book ImageCharles Rennie Mackintosh

    James Macaulay, Mark Fiennes

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

  5. Book ImageGreat 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

  6. Book ImageUrban Integration / Bishopsgate Good Yards: Johnson, Nick and FAT Architects

    Yale School of Architecture, Andrei Harwell, Lydia Miller, Et Al.

    The fourth book in this series records the collaboration of Nick Johnson, development director of Urban Splash, Manchester, with Kahn Visiting Professors Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland, and Sam Jacob, who worked with a studio of Yale students to investigate alternative possibilities for development of the derelict Bishopsgate Goods Yard in East London.More

  7. Book ImageHistorical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

    Donald Friedman

    Second Edition

    An updated edition of the classic text detailing the ins and outs of old building construction.More

  8. Book ImageDams

    Christine Macy

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

  9. Book ImageNegotiated Terrains

    Yale School of Architecture, Heather Kilmer, Nina Rappaport

    Negotiated Terrains is the second book that features the work of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors, a chairmanship endowed in 2004 to bring young innovators in architectural design to the Yale School of Architecture.More

  10. Book ImageThe Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation

    Steven W. Semes

    A comprehensive and eloquent argument for “new traditional” architecture that preserves the style and character of historic buildings.More

  11. Book ImageEdwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist

    Mina Rieur Weiner

    The first book in several decades to focus on the muralist, an esteemed exemplar and advocate of the classical tradition.More

  12. Book ImageThe Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury

    Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, Robert A M Stern

    The first close look at an innovative architect and inventor who held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times.More

  13. Book ImageHidcote: 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

  14. Book ImageThe Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects

    Deyan Sudjic

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

  15. Book ImageRethinking Sitting

    Peter Opsvik

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

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