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1. 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

2. 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

3. Dams

   Christine Macy

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

4. 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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5. 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

6. Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive

   David G. De Long, C. Ford Peatross

   A timely portrait of the work of an architect who expanded the vocabulary of modern architecture.More

7. Stone Sampler

   Studio Marmo

   Second Edition

   With an additional 200 new samples, bringing the total to 752, this new edition of Stone Sampler provides swatches of natural stone, including marble, travertine, onyx, granite, quartzite, and limestone, available for use in construction and decoration.More

8. Key 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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9. Public Markets

   Helen Tangires

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

10. Getting a Job in Architecture and Design

    David W. Patterson

    A practical guide for every architect or other design professional looking for a good job.More

11. Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture: Designs for the 21st Century

    Judith Gura

    The five countries known collectively as Scandinavia have been the source of some of the most important furniture designs of the twentieth century.More

12. Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance

    Dariush Arasteh, John Carmody, Lisa Heschong, Et Al.

    Third Edition

    The third edition of Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance provides updated and expanded information on window properties and technologies, as well as new sections on such key topics as window installation, energy efficiency, and building codes.More

13. Bridges

    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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14. Classical Swedish Architecture and Interiors 1650-1840

    Johan Cederlund, Lani Summerville-Sternerup

    The beautiful, often breathtakingly lavish architecture and interiors of Sweden between the 1600s and early 1800s have been among the art world’s best-kept secrets.
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15. Lighthouses

    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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