(Almost) Spring Break
After two solid months of posts ? 44 reviews so far in 2021! ? I\'m taking a week off. Posts will resume on Monday, March 8.In the meantime, please co...
01-03-2021 21:34
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Drawing Ambience
Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural AssociationIgor Marjanovi?, Jan HowardMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum/RISD Museum, February 2015...
27-02-2021 21:34
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AA Files 77
AA Files 77Maria Sheherazade Giudici (Editor)AA Publications, December 2020Paperback | 9-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches | 224 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1999627...
26-02-2021 21:35
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The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years
The Architectural Association in the Postwar YearsPatrick ZamarianLund Humphries, November 2020Hardcover | 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 208 pages | 115 illu...
25-02-2021 21:34
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Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Arvo Pärt Centre & Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos: A Common DenominatorMichael Pärt (Editor)ArchiTangle, February 2021Hardcover | 11-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches |...
24-02-2021 21:34
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Atlas of Digital Architecture
Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, PhenomenaSebastian Michael; edited by Ludger Hovestadt, Urs Hirschberg...
23-02-2021 21:36
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E=mc2
E=mc2:Â The Project in the Age of RelativityAndrea Branzi; edited by Elisa C. CattaneoActar Publishers, October 2020Paperback | 7-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches ...
22-02-2021 21:36
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St. Louis and the Arch
St. Louis and the ArchJoel MeyerowitzNew York Graphic Society, 1980Paperback | 10-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 112 pages | 60 photographs | English | ISBN: 97...
20-02-2021 21:33
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Shared Structures, Private Spaces
Shared Structures, Private Spaces: Housing in MexicoFernanda CanalesActar Publishers, December 2020Paperback | 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 280 pages | Engl...
19-02-2021 21:33
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Wayne Thom
Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late ModernEmily BillsThe Monacelli Press, December 2020Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 248 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580...
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Opening Lines I ? IV
Opening Lines I ? IVTina di Carlo (Editor)Drawing Matter, 2018Paperback | 7-3/4 x 11-1/2 inches | 592 pages in four volumes | English | ISBN: |Â £100....
19-02-2021 21:33
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Material Transfers
Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary ArchitectureFrançoise Astorg BollackThe Monacelli Press, December 2020Hardcover | 8 x 1...
16-02-2021 21:40
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Miró Rivera Architects
Miró Rivera Architects:Â Building a New ArcadiaJuan Miró, Miguel RiveraUniversity of Texas Press, November 2020Hardcover | 9 x 12 inches | 448 pages |...
15-02-2021 21:33
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Women in American Architecture
Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary PerspectiveSusana Torre (Editor)Whitney Library of Design, 1977Hardcover | 8-1/4 x 11 inch...
13-02-2021 21:36
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Modern Housing
Modern HousingCatherine Bauer; foreword by Barbara PennerUniversity of Minnesota Press, April 2020Paperback | 6 x 9-1/4 inches | 400 pages | 175 illus...
11-02-2021 21:36
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Building with Limestone in Paris
Building with Limestone in ParisEdited by h2o architectes, with texts by Andrew Ayers, photographs by Julien Lanoo and Stéphane ChalmeauBuilding Books...
10-02-2021 21:40
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Modern Modern
Modern Modern: The Rehabilitation of the Musée d\'Art Moderne de Paris by h2o architectesh2o architectes, Building Paris (Editors)Park Books, June 202...
08-02-2021 21:34
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Key Houses of the Twentieth Century
Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and ElevationsColin DaviesW. W. Norton, October 2006Paperback | 10 x 11-1/2 inches | 240 pages | ...
06-02-2021 21:36
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Media Burn
Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an ImageSteve SeidInventory Press/RITE Editions, November 2020Paperback | 9 x 12 inches | 128 pages | English |...
04-02-2021 21:36
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20/20
20/20: Twenty Great Houses of the Twentieth CenturyJohn PardeyLund Humphries, September 2020Hardcover | Page Size inches | 224 pages | 150 illustratio...
03-02-2021 21:36
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Lake|Flato
Lake|Flato: Nature | Place | Craft | Restraint Lake|Flato ArchitectsUniversity of Texas Press, November 2020Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 12 inches | 256 p...
01-02-2021 21:36
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The Architecture of Fantasy
The Architecture of Fantasy: Utopian Building and Planning in Modern TimesUlrich Conrads and Hans G. Sperlich; translated, edited and expanded by Chri...
30-01-2021 21:34
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Radical Architecture of the Future
Radical Architecture of the FutureBeatrice GalileePhaidon, January 2021Paperback | 8 x 10-1/2 inches | 240 pages | 250 illustrations | English | ISBN:...
29-01-2021 21:34
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The Loop
The Loop: The ?L? Tracks That Shaped and Saved ChicagoPatrick T. ReardonSouthern Illinois University Press, November 2020Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 31...
28-01-2021 21:38
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The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms
The China Lab Guide to Megablock UrbanismsJeffrey Johnson, Cressica Brazier, Tat Lam (Editors)Actar Publishers/Columbia GSAPP, November 2020Paperback ...
27-01-2021 21:37
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Architectural Styles
Architectural Styles: A Visual GuideMargaret Fletcher, Robbie PolleyPrinceton University Press, December 2020Hardcover | 7 x 9 inches | 288 pages | 60...
26-01-2021 21:48
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Openings
Openings: h2o architectesh2o architectes, Building Paris, Fanny Léglise (Editors)Park Books, January 2021Hardcover | 6-3/4 x 9-1/4 inches | 344 pages ...
25-01-2021 21:40
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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi: Drawings and PaintingsMorris Adjmi, Giovanni Bertolotto (Editors)Princeton Architectural Press, 1993Paperback | 9 x 12 inches | 224 pages ...
23-01-2021 21:33
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WWW Drawing
WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to PixelJanet Abrams, Mehrdad Hadighi (Editors)Actar Publishers, October 2020Paperback | 7-1/2 x 11 inc...
22-01-2021 21:37
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Typology 2
Typology 2: Delhi, Paris, São Paulo, AthensEmanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein, Cloé Gattigo (Editors)Park Books, October 2015 (seco...
21-01-2021 21:34
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Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bauhaus
Daddy Wouldn\'t Buy Me a Bauhaus:Â Profiles in Architecture and DesignJanet AbramsPrinceton Architectural Press, October 2020Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2...
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Architecture through Drawing
Architecture through DrawingDesley Luscombe, Helen Thomas, Niall Hobhouse (Editors)Lund Humphries, November 2019Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 12 inches | 240 pa...
19-01-2021 21:46
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Formgiving
Formgiving: An Architectural Future HistoryBIG - Bjarke Ingels GroupTaschen, December 2020Paperback | 6-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches | 736 pages | English | ISB...
18-01-2021 21:36
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IAUS
IAUS: An Insider\'s MemoirSuzanne FrankAuthorHouse, November 2010Paperback | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 364 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1452086965 | $85.99PU...
16-01-2021 21:34
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Architecture of Coexistence
Architecture of Coexistence: Building PluralismAzra Ak?amija (Editor)Aga Khan Award for Architecture/ArchiTangle, July 2020Hardcover | 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 i...
15-01-2021 21:36
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exlibris
exlibris: 16 keywords of contemporary architecture Giovanni CorbelliniLetteraVentidue, November 2018Paperback | 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches | 160 pages | N...
14-01-2021 21:35
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Typology
Typology: Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos AiresEmanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein (Editors)Park Books, September 2012Hardcover | ...
13-01-2021 21:36
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Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm
Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind HOKPatrick MacLeamyWiley, April 2020Hardcover | 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 in...
12-01-2021 21:37
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Ralph Johnson of Perkins+Will
Ralph Johnson of Perkins+Will: Recent WorksOscar Riera Ojeda (Editor)Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2012Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 488 pages | 650 ill...
11-01-2021 21:36
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Modern Architecture and the Critical Present
Modern Architecture and the Critical PresentKenneth Frampton (Editor)Architectural Design/Academy Editions, 1982Paperback | 8-3/4 x 11 inches | 120 pa...
09-01-2021 21:38
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Modern Architecture
Modern Architecture: A Critical HistoryKenneth FramptonThames & Hudson, September 2020 (5th Edition)Paperback | 6 x 8-1/4 inches | 736 pages | 813 ill...
07-01-2021 21:33
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Egyptian Places
Egyptian Places: An Illustrated TravelogueHenry David AyonORO Editions, September 2020Paperback | 11 x 10 inches | 170 pages | 200+ illustrations | En...
06-01-2021 21:35
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Startha Éagsula / Alternative Histories
Startha Éagsula / Alternative HistoriesSarah Handelman (Editor)Drawing Matter/Irish Architectural Archive, 2020Paperback | 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 64 p...
05-01-2021 21:34
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Études
Études: The Poetry of Dreams + Other FragmentsJohn MarxORO Editions, March 2020Hardcover | 11-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches | 160 pages | English | ISBN: 978-19...
04-01-2021 21:36
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Best Books of 2020
In 2020, the second year for A Daily Dose of Architecture Books, I featured more than 150 books in six day-of-the-week categories: Monograph Monday ...
21-12-2020 21:36
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Lunuganga
LunugangaGeoffrey BawaMarshall Cavendish Editions, 2006Hardcover | 10-1/2 x 12 inches | 220 pages | English | ISBN: 978-9812618443PUBLISHER\'S DESCRIP...
19-12-2020 21:36
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Houses for Sale
Houses for SaleMichael Meredith, Hilary SampleCorraini Edizioni/CCA, November 2019Hardcover | 8-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches | 126 pages | 128 illustrations | ...
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The Queens Nobody Knows
The Queens Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking GuideWilliam B. HelmreichPrinceton University Press, October 2020Paperback | 5-1/2 x 8 inches | 488 pages | ...
16-12-2020 21:34
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Mr. Bawa I Presume
Mr. Bawa I PresumeGiovanna SilvaHatje Cantz, August 2020Paperback | 8-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches | 160 pages | 125 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-377574...
14-12-2020 21:36
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Apartments for the Affluent
Apartments for the Affluent: A Historical Survey of Buildings in New YorkAndrew AlpernMcGraw-Hill, 1975Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11 inches | 166 pages | Eng...
12-12-2020 21:37
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Stanford White in Detail
Stanford White in DetailSamuel G. White; photographs by Jonathan WallenThe Monacelli Press, October 2020Hardcover | 7 x 9 inches | 256 pages | English...
10-12-2020 21:36
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Posh Portals
Posh Portals: Elegant Entrances and Ingratiating Ingresses to Apartments for the Affluent in New York CityAndrew Alpern, with Simon Fieldhouse (Illust...
09-12-2020 21:37
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The Elements of Modern Architecture
The Elements of Modern Architecture:Â Understanding Contemporary BuildingsAntony Radford, Amit Srivastava, Selen MorkocThames & Hudson, September 2020...
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SURFACEDESIGN
SURFACEDESIGN: Material LandscapesJames A. Lord, Roderick Wyllie, Geoff di GirolamoThe Monacelli Press, October 2019Flexicover | 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches...
07-12-2020 21:35
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Coming to Light
Coming to Light: The Louis I. Kahn Monument to Franklin D. Roosevelt for New York CityIrwin S. Chanin School of ArchitectureThe Cooper Union for the A...
05-12-2020 21:36
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MONU #33
MONU #33: Pandemic UrbanismMagazine on Urbanism, October 2020Paperback | 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 inches | 128 pages | English | ISSN: 1860-3211 | $23.99ISSUE C...
04-12-2020 21:36
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Our Days Are Like Full Years
Our Days Are Like Full Years:Â A Memoir with Letters from Louis KahnHarriet PattisonYale University Press, October 2020Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 448...
03-12-2020 21:39
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Chicago Apartments
Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront LuxuryNeil Harris, Teri J. EdelsteinUniversity of Chicago Press, July 2020 (Second Edition)Hardc...
02-12-2020 21:36
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Underground Cities
Underground Cities:Â Mapping the tunnels, transits and networks underneath our feetMark OvendenFrances Lincoln, September 2020Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-/...
01-12-2020 21:34
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1 Finsbury Avenue
1 Finsbury Avenue: Innovative Office Architecture from Arup to AHMMKenneth PowellLund Humphries, March 2020Hardcover | 10 x 10-3/4 inches | 128 pages ...
30-11-2020 21:40
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Open(ing) Spaces
Open(ing) Spaces: Design as Landscape ArchitectureHans Loidl, Stefan BernardBirkhäuser, 2003Hardcover | 9 x 9 inches | 192 pages | 300 illustrations |...
28-11-2020 21:33
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Snowbound
Snowbound:Â Dwelling in WinterWilliam MorganPrinceton Architectural Press, October 2020Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 224 pages | 100 illustrations | Eng...
27-11-2020 21:35
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Impact
Impact: The Effect of Climate Change on CoastlinesAlex MacLeanBirkhäuser, August 2020Hardcover | 9 x 13 inches | 336 pages | 200 illustrations | Engli...
25-11-2020 21:37
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Landscape for Architects
Landscape for Architects:Â Landscape, Park, Building, Qualities, UseGabriele G. Kiefer, Anika NeubauerBirkhäuser, August 2020Paperback (5 volumes) | 4...
24-11-2020 21:35
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Steven Holl
Steven Holl:Â Inspiration and Process in ArchitectureSteven HollPrinceton Architectural Press, October 2020Hardcover | 5 x 8-1/4 inches | 144 pages | ...
23-11-2020 21:37
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American Masterworks
American Masterworks: The Twentieth Century HouseKenneth Frampton; edited by Frampton and David LarkinRizzoli, 1995Paperback | 11-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches ...
21-11-2020 21:34
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urbainable/stadthaltig
urbainable/stadthaltig: Positions on the European City for the 21st CenturyTim Rieniets, Matthias Sauerbruch, Jörn Walter (Editors)Akademie der Künste...
20-11-2020 21:37
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Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld
Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth FramptonKarla Cavarra Britton, Robert McCarter (Editors)Thames & Hudson, September 2...
19-11-2020 21:39
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The Iconic American House
The Iconic American House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900Dominic Bradbury, photographs by Richard PowersThames & Hudson, October 2020Hardcover |...
18-11-2020 21:35
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Hocker
Hocker: 2005-2020 LandscapesHocker; text by Helen ThompsonThe Monacelli Press, September 2020Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 272 pages | English | ISBN: 9...
16-11-2020 21:37
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Future Tempos
Future Tempos:Â Conversations on Architecture Across Time and MediaLluís Ortega (Editor)Actar Publishers, May 2020Paperback | 4-1/2 x 7 inches | 96 pa...
13-11-2020 21:37
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Who Shot Le Corbusier"
Who shot Le Corbusier" The architect of the century and his photographersDaniel NaegeleTU Delft Open, August 2020Paperback | 5-1/4 x 8 inches | 148 pa...
12-11-2020 21:48
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MPavilion
MPavilion: Encounters with Design and ArchitectureAlexandra Zafiriou, Robert Buckingham (Editors)Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, September 2020Hard...
11-11-2020 21:41
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Alternative Histories
Alternative HistoriesJantje Engels, Marius Grootveld (Curators); Thomas Adank, Guus Kaandorp (Photographers)Drawing Matter, 2019Paperback | 9-1/4 x 11...
10-11-2020 21:38
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Château La Coste
Château La Coste: Art and Architecture in ProvenceRobert Ivy, Alistair Hicks; photographs by Alan KarchmerMerrell Publishers, September 2020Hardcover ...
09-11-2020 21:38
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Election Week Break
Tuesday, November3, is Election Day in the United States. Even though I mailed in my ballot weeks ago, I\'m taking the week off, as the results of the...
02-11-2020 21:38
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African Metropolitan Architecture
African Metropolitan ArchitectureDavid Adjaye, edited by Peter AllisonRizzoli, 2011Paperback (7 volumes w/slipcase) | 9-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches | 576 page...
31-10-2020 21:39
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Fantastic Man 31
Fantastic Man 31 ? Rem KoolhaasGert Jonkers (Editor in Chief)Fantastic Man/TOP Publishers BV, Spring and Summer 2020Paperback | 11-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches...
30-10-2020 21:37
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Race and Modern Architecture
Race and Modern Architecture:Â A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the PresentIrene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson (Editors)Univ...
29-10-2020 21:37
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In Search of African American Space
In Search of African American Space: Redressing RacismJeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff, with Carrie Eastman and Ashley Simone (Editors)Lars Müller Publi...
28-10-2020 21:37
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David Adjaye - Works 1995-2007
David Adjaye - Works 1995-2007: Houses, Pavilions, Installations, BuildingsAdjaye Associates, edited by Peter AllisonThames & Hudson, November 2020Har...
26-10-2020 21:39
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NESS.docs 2
NESS.docs 2: Landscape as Urbanism in the AmericasFlorencia Rodriguez, Mercedes Peralta, Jeannette Sordi (Editors)Lots of Architecture ?publishers, Ju...
23-10-2020 21:35
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Architecture in Global Socialism
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War?ukasz StanekPrinceton University Press, January 202...
22-10-2020 21:39
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Modern in the Middle
Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975Susan S. Benjamin, Michelangelo SabatinoThe Monacelli Press, September 2020Hardcover | 8-1/2 x 11-1/2 in...
21-10-2020 21:38
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The Architecture Machine
The Architecture Machine: The Role of Computers in ArchitectureTeresa Fankhänel, Andres Lepik (Editors)Birkhäuser, July 2020Hardcover | 8-1/4 x 11Â in...
20-10-2020 21:47
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Flores & Prats: Sala Beckett
Flores & Prats: Sala Beckett:Â International Drama CentreRichard Flores, Eva PratsArquine, May 2020Paperback | 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 304 pages | 295...
19-10-2020 21:43
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Peter Zumthor: Therme Vals
Peter Zumthor: Therme ValsPeter Zumthor (Editor); Photographs by Hélène BinetScheidegger & Spiess, 2007Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 12 inches | 192 pages | 123...
17-10-2020 21:46
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Architecture Beyond Experience
Architecture Beyond ExperienceMichael Benediktar+d (Applied Research + Design), May 2020Paperback | 7 x 10 inches | 312 pages | English | ISBN: | $35....
16-10-2020 21:39
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The Architecture of Bathing
The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, ArtChristie PearsonThe MIT Press, October 2020Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 424 pages | 266 illustrations ...
15-10-2020 21:40
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Tremaine Houses
Tremaine Houses: One Family?s Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury AmericaVolker M. WelterGetty Publications, YearHardcover | 9-1/2 x 10 i...
15-10-2020 21:40
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Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray, Designer and ArchitectCloé Pitiot and Nina Stritzler-Levine (Editors)Bard Graduate Center, February 2020Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches...
12-10-2020 21:40
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World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic, Vol. 8
World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic, Vol. 8: South AsiaKenneth Frampton (General Editor), Rahul Mehrotra (Volume Editor)China Architecture...
10-10-2020 21:37
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MAS Context 32: Character
MAS Context 32: CharacterDesign With Company (Editor)MAS Context, 2020Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 418 pages | English | ISSN: 2332-5046 | $30.00PUBLISH...
09-10-2020 21:37
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The Practice of Spatial Thinking
The Practice of Spatial Thinking: Differentiation Processes, Second EditionLeon van Schaik, SueAnne Ware, Colin Fudge, Geoffrey LondonActar Publishers...
06-10-2020 21:34
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Working in Mumbai
Working in Mumbai: RMA ArchitectsRahul Mehrotra; edited by Kate Cahill, with photographs by Rajesh VoraArchiTangle, July 2020Hardcover | 10 x 11-1/2 i...
05-10-2020 21:35
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Between Silence and Light
Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. KahnJohn LobellShambhala Publications, 1979Paperback | 9-1/4 x 10 inches | 120 pages...
03-10-2020 21:35
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Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy
Louis Kahn: Architecture as PhilosophyJohn LobellThe Monacelli Press, June 2020Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 240 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1580935289 ...
02-10-2020 21:35
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The Invention of Public Space
The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay\'s New YorkMariana MogilevichUniversity of Minnesota Press, August 2020Paperback | 7...
01-10-2020 21:38
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Being the Mountain
Being the MountainPRODUCTORA (Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles)Actar Publishers/IITAC Press, May 2020Hardcover | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2Â in...
28-09-2020 21:39
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Noguchi in Paris
Noguchi in Paris: The UNESCO GardenMarc TreibWilliam Stout Publishers/UNESCO Publishing, 2003Hardcover | 8 x 10-1/4 inches | 148 pages | 87 illustrati...
26-09-2020 21:34
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