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Architecture and Design in Europe and America, 1750-2000 is an unprecedented teaching anthology that surveys the history of European and American architecture and design using both historical and contemporary sources. This ambitious volume brings together... [ More...]
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Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was the last survivor of a generation of European immigrants who had a major impact on American architecture. This extensively illustrated study of Belluschi's life and work sheds critical light on the remarkable accomplishments... [ More...]
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Urban design affects the vast majority of the world's population. The quality of our living and working environment is dictated by it, and yet it is often either bound up in political red tape or dominated by notions of individual freedom that preclude the... [ More...]
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This magnificent volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of this museum and art school housed in buildings designed by world-renowned architects Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier. Illustrated essays cover the history of the Center and its... [ More...]
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Architectural historian Sally B. Woodbridge illuminates the career of John Galen Howard, the University of California's first supervising architect from 1901 to 1924. Howard, a New Englander who had attended MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, worked... [ More...]
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Magnificently illustrated directory of 70 of Manhattan's most splendid addresses, with history, commentary, floor plans, more. 221 photographs and drawings. l
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This history and catalog of the movie theaters of Illinois follows their evolution from the early opera hoses, to the storefront nickelodeons, to the awe-inspiring movie palaces, to the post—world War II theaters and the advent of the multiplex.
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"CANALS describes the development of these waterways in their heyday and shows the varied structures—including locks, lockhouses, aqueducts, bridges, dams, and tunnels—they engendered. It provides capsule tours of thirty-five canals and a... [ More...]
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"West Coast Residential" demonstrates how modernist traditions are being integrated into contemporary design. It also explains what were the defining features of the West Coast mid-century vernacular and asks whether it still exists today. Featured... [ More...]
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Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, felt that the founding and design of the University of Virginia in 1819 was his most lasting achievement. Jefferson's Academical Village centers on the Rotunda, the Lawn, and ten neoclassical... [ More...]
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