Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
 Excellent!!!: I consider this book the most complete on the Taino's art and crafts. The collection presented here was gathered from all over the world and represents all the islands of the Greater Antilles. Yet, it is not merely a "coffee table book& [... more]
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Masters of Modern Design: A Critical Assessment
Author: George H. Marcus Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 745.20922 EAN: 9781580931601 ISBN: 158093160X Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: 2005-12-01 Release Date: 2005-12-01 [... more]
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Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works
Amazon.com Review: Ever since his wildly dramatic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened in 1997, Frank Gehry has been widely and justifiably considered the leading architect of our time. Although this ascension occurred seemingly overnight, it [... more]
$100.00
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Key West: A Tropical Lifestyle
A real place with real people who have real homes...: It's hard to imagine how the natives, or the locals, live in places like Key West or New Orleans. These tropical outposts seem less mainstream than other parts of the USA; unique people put down roots [... more]
$45.00
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From the Sunshine State: Photographs of Florida
Stunning and important: The images in this book provide a seldom-seen commentary on aspects of life within a state know primarily for its tourism industry. Here, Alex Webb pulls back the curtain to reveal the other worlds that co-exist with most of the [... more]
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The Hudson River: From Tear of the Clouds to Manhattan
The most wonderful pictoral.....: I have read and grown quite fond of this book, it is the moist in depth, wonderful collection of Hudson River photography I have ever seen ! I highly recommend this book to anyone who would be intrested in a photographic [... more]
$65.00
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Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, ...
Opera Buffa: Eisenman dissects the Casa Del Fascio as a pathologist would examine a corpse. In simplistic diagrams the building's parts are duly chronicled in uninspired prose. One is left with the impression that he has examined a piece of graph paper [... more]
$75.00
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Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1998-2003
Simply amazing: This monograph of Stern's recent work is incredible. The photography is stunning, and the book covers both built and unbuilt projects. Highlighting Stern's masterful interpretation of what he calls "modern classicism" as well as [... more]
$45.00
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The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932
the last vanguard: Richard Pare is one of the best architectural photographers in the world today. In more than ten years he has documented Soviet architecture from after the 1917 revolution (1922-32) and this book is a catalog of that work, some of [... more]
$85.00
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Glass House
Architecture without walls: Architecture without walls: The "Glass House" by Philip Johnson, Toshio Nakamura and Monacelli Press. Can you take along with you the Parthenon, the Pyramid of Giza, The Taz-Mahal, the Spanish Steps, the Meinji-Jingu [... more]
$95.00
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Harlem: Lost and Found
Harlem Lost?: Paul Rocheleau urged me not to worry about what I wrote stressing, "Most people only look at the pictures anyhow." Taking over ten years to research and write something, how tiresome it is to then be compelled to defend it. One is [... more]
$65.00
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The Minimalist Garden
Probably expecting too much from this book.: I waited for the book's arrival with high expectation after reading such rave reviews from the readers in Amazon. Whilst this book is well-presented with structured discussions in the topics of extended home, [... more]
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