Architecture

	Abraham Zabludovsky Architect 1979 - 1993 - 1568980493 One of the leading architects currently practicing in Mexico, Abraham Zabludovsky is most familiar to the international architecture audience for the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, From the range of his work as a whole, however, a distinct architectural language has emerged to inscribe itself on the tradition of Mexican architecture, advanced by modern masters such as Jose Villagran Garcia, Luis Barragan, and Ricardo Legoretta. Abraham Zabludovsky Architect 1979 - 1993 provides ... $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Art Nouveau Tiles, c. 1890 - 1914 by Sandie Fowler & Wendy Harvey - 0764314416 Dazzling in bold color and variety in design, a resurgence in the popularity of Art Nouveau tiles is happening. This is, in part, because tiles installed over a 100 years ago remain striking decorative elements in both residences and public buildings. Despite over a 100 years of use, these tiles retain their original color and beauty while that around them suffers. This book, which will be enjoyed by all, has vivid color photographs of over 600 designs. Useful and beautiful, this collectors' ... $37.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Building Architectural Models by Guy & Patricia DeMarco - 0764310712 Whether you intend to add flair to your office presentation or charm to your model train set, this book will give you professional insight into designing and producing architectural models--with truly spectacular results. This book is a primer for the design, construction, and presentation of the three-dimensional model from conceptual drawings. Ideal for use inside or outside the classroom, the process begins with the construction of a cube and tetrahedron, and moves on to encompass manufact... $12.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Built to Last: A Showcase of Concrete Home by Tina Skinner - 0764316176 If you're thinking about building a new home, you'll want to start here. This introduction to insulating concrete form (ICF) construction will open your eyes to the future. ICF construction combines man's best building materials - concrete and steel, with high-tech insulation - bringing them together in simple forms a small child can lift. Anyone with basic carpentry experience can assemble them. Concrete construction offers rock-solid homes that can withstand hurricane-force winds, drastical... $23.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Cabin Style - Decorating with Rustic, Adirondack, and Western Collectibles - 076432019X The rustic (yet surprisingly sophisticated) design elements presented here make this an inspiring resource for cabin owners who desire more than "cookie-cutter" decor ideas for their lakeside or mountain home. Hundreds of vintage decorating ideas are pictured within fifteen chapters that reflect a once ordinary cabin as a timeless and relaxing showplace with personality and style. Chapters feature dishes, pottery, glassware, camp blankets, souvenirs, furniture, and ephemera that provide inter... $23.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Central Asian Art - 0862885795 Between the Caspian Sea and the Chinese frontier, Central Asia, with its ancient cities and its monuments that date back millennia, has seen the rise and fall of numerous civilizations. lavishly illustrated, this book offers a look at beautiful constructions: mosques, mausoleums, madrasahs, and minarets, that rival each other in their rich ornamentation of polychrome faience and ceramics of unique turquoise blue. Although the cultures of the different people of Central Asia have long been ma... $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Ceramic Art Tile for the Home - 0764312979 Art tile is a truly exciting option for both interior and exterior decoration. There is a vast array of tile available on the market today, ranging in design from traditional to modern, and conservative to outrageous--the possibilities are overwhelming! This book is a wonderful introduction to art tile, loaded with ideas and resources that will charm and inspire. Hundreds of breathtaking photographs of installations in and out of the home show the work of today's leading contemporary tile art... $25.25     View Details Add To Cart
	Einhorn Yaffee Prescott - Architecture as Response: Preserving the Past, Designing for the Future - 1564964108 Experience the thoughtful and dynamic architecture of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, an award-winning architecture/engineering firm, through this beautifully illustrated monograph. Architecture as response is the guiding principle behind the work of the firm: EYP has created unique architectural solutions that seamlessly meld the aesthetic and the pragmatic, and at the same time, graciously meet the clients user needs. The featured projects sample some of EYPs most stunning and creative work, inclu... $7.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Great Houses of New York 1880 - 1930 - 0926494341 Beginning in the 1880s and continuing up to the Great Depression of the 1930s, many American business leaders chose to reside in New York. Local families such as the Vanderbilts, Whitneys, and Astors built here, while others like the Carnegie, Frick, and Stewart families moved to the metropolis to better manage their fortunes. While visiting Europe, many of them experienced the architectural pageantry and hierarchical social rituals enacted within the great houses of those cities. With fortun... $56.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Ironwork - 2914199384 Ironwork is a vast collection of ironwork spanning numerous centuries. An accompanying CD contains all of the images presented in high resolution TIFF format. The ironwork is divided into the following sections: * Gates * Banisters * Doors and Windows * Balconies and Railings * Glass roofs * Garden Equipment * Urban furniture * Locksmithing * Household objects $19.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Itsuko Hasegawa: Selected and Current Works - 1875498559 From the books introduction: There are many aspects to Itsuko Hasegawa's shift, in the last ten years from individual houses to a more social architecture - but at the very least, this shift has forced her to think of architecture from a different point of view and has made architecture very socially conscious. Hasegawa's work of the early 1980s was largely formal - a quest to understand, through form the conceptual framework in which architecture exists. But her architecture has changed c... $34.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Mastering Tradition: Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope - 0926494244 In the first major book on the beautiful and richly varied residential designs of John Russell Pope, Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope highlights the extraordinary houses of one of the 20th Century s most prolific architects. John Russell Pope (1873 - 1937) was an architect of tradition and a master of pro-portion, massing, and scale. Drawing on a personal palette rich in historic precedents from ancient Greece to colonial America, Pope created original an...     View Details Add To Cart
	Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States - 0926494139 American architecture has been influenced by Spanish and Italian motifs since the early days of the Republic. Spanish Colonial architecture, in particular, made its way into the southern reaches of the United States, especially in the former Spanish domains. In the 1920s, Spanish-style architecture was very popular across the warmer climates of California, Arizona, New Mexico, the Gulf Coast and Florida. Influences from Italy and Northern Africa were also finding their way, indirectly, into t... $44.50     View Details Add To Cart
	North Shore Boston: Houses of Essex County 1865 - 1930 - 0926494287 Since the mid19th century, wealthy Bostonians have migrated each summer to the fabled North Shore, drawn by cool sea breezes and the elemental splendor of the rugged coastline. Some settled in prestigious shore communities like Prides Crossing, Beverly Farms, and Manchester-by-the-Sea, constructing waterfront mansions that became progressively more elaborate as the Age of Elegance progressed. Gentleman farmers and equestrians were drawn to inland towns like Hamilton, Wenham, and Topsfield, wh... $54.95     View Details Add To Cart
	North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs 1890-1940 - 0926494260 The suburban residential area running north above Chicago along the majestic shoreline of Lake Michigan is the fulfillment of the American dream for a cool, forested, refuge from the industrialized urban environment. Formed by nine towns founded mostly in the 1860s and 1870s, the North Shore of Chicago runs 13 to 35 miles north of the Loop, placing country living within easy commute of work, shopping, and entertainment. North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890 - 1940 ... $53.79     View Details Add To Cart
	Permanence: Classical Chinese Stone Furniture - 9572847619 This exhibition covers stone furniture form Han to Qing, illustrating the transition in the Chinese culture from mat level to chair. The earliest piece is a Han dynasty stone meditation platform, others include late pieces of Ming and Qing in the form of tables, stools, garden and plant stands, benches and drum stools. This is the first exhibition to present many variations of garden future, however, some items such as drum-shaped pieces are actually bases of of pillars form the interior of a... $68.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future - 0262232162 Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. Trained in mechanical engineering and art history, he was convinced that technology was making society not only more exciting but more democratic. His combination of academic rigor and pop culture sensibility put him in opposition to both traditionalists and orthodox Modernists, but placed him in a unique position to understand the cultural, social... $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Story of Chinese Landscape Design - 9575303563 The Story of Chinese Landscape Design: External Forms and Internal Visions was written by Prof. Pao-Teh Han, one of the most respected of Taiwanese architects. Prof Han describes his book as simply an attempt at an interpretation of the culture of Chinese landscape gardens, in the hope that it would arouse the vast reading public in becoming interested in a deeper understanding of the subject. It is not, he continues, an academic thesis, nor is it a popular article, or a pic... $28.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Palace of Established Happiness: Restoring a Garden in the Forbidden City - 9787800473319 The Qianlong emperor considered gardens essential to a ruler's mental and emotional well-being. The first garden he built, begun in 1742, was attached to Jianfu gong, the Palace of Established Happiness, in the northwest quarter of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Filled with exquisite pavilions, weathered rocks, sunken courtyards and winding galleries, this garden became Qianlong's favorite retreat. He kept the most precious ancient scrolls from his art collection in one of the pavilions there... $47.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Will Alsop Book 1 - 1856692388 Will Alsop is one of the most exciting British architects working today, responsible for such striking buildings as Le Grand Bleu in Marseilles, the Ferry Terminal in Hamburg and, most recently, the Sterling Prize-winning Peckham Library in south London. This, the first of two volumes on Alsop's work, will examine not only his architecture, but also his distinctive creative process, His early training and teaching in art have profoundly marked his approach to architecture: very rare for an a... $34.50     View Details Add To Cart