Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles: ...
 Well done all around.: You could think of this as a coffee-table version of the McAlester's Field Guide to American Houses (which I also recommend.) In this case each house is an historical landmark as well as an exemplar of an architectural style, and [... more]
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Catskills Country Style
You can smell the freah air.: This book through the use of superb photograhy and simple but informative captions conveys the love the owners have for these homes in the country. From the ornate victorian to the simple country style cottage of a beekeeper [... more]
CDN$23.98
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Structure and Architecture
Enhanced with an expanded and re-written chapter: Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Angus MacDonald's Structure & Architecture showcases the relationship between architecture and structural engineering using both historical and [... more]
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Shingle Styles: Innovation and Tradition in American ...
From Amazon.com: While Newport, Rhode Island, may not have been the birthplace of shingle style, it certainly became--somewhere around the 1860s--a stronghold for an approach that would become popular in American architecture. Established as a major [... more]
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Washington The Indispensible Man
Very good, but not quite as spectacular as I had hoped: This is a very solid biography, but I have to say that it just failed to be brilliant. I had seen it listed several places as a very good one-volume biography, but it clearly feels like a biography [... more]
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Houses Of Old Cuba
french version available in www.amazon.fr: both versions of the book, in english and french, are excellent. however, there are some 'minor' differences, for example the cover. there is also a spanish version that shares the french version cover design. [... more]
CDN$56.13
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25 Houses Under 2500 Square Feet
Very complete, eclectic assortment of books: This is a fantastic book. The houses shown are, as another reviewer noted, largely vacational homes, but one can still appreciate the way in which they create a modern coziness that hints at previous American [... more]
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Architecture for the Gods
From Amazon.com: If this is architecture for the gods, the gods must be groaning. Not to say that this big, handsome paperback look at more than 40 recent faith-centered architectural projects around the U.S.--complete with full-color photographs, plans, [... more]
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Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique
a nice argument for not jumping in the current bandwagon: I have been engaged in an study of philosophy only for the past two years and mostly for my interest in politics and social science. I like many people have heard this word "postmodernism& [... more]
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Burmese Design And Architecture
A Perfect Balance: Burmese Design and Architecture by Johni. Falconer, et al, offers a perfect balance between excellent photography and enlighting commentary, which together bring alive the splendor of Burmese, Mon, Arakan and other architectural styles. [... more]
CDN$43.95
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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
a bad book for architects: One of the most damaging books that has ever flooded architectural education. The book is the dullest and uninspiring compilation of platitudes without any critical referent. To the problems of architecture and architectural [... more]
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Britain:: A Guide to Architectural Styles from 1066 to ...
Author: Hubert Pragnall Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 712 EAN: 9780713487886 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0713487887 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2003-08-28 [... more]
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