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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: AN ARCHITECTURAL ALPHABET

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: POMEGRANATE:

Seller ID: IM504102

ISBN: 0764912623

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Condition

Pairs photographs of the Library of Congress's features with antique letters from the library's collections.
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SCULPTURAL PROGRAMS OF CHARTRES CATHEDRA

By: ADOLF KATZENELLENBOGEN

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, INC.:

Seller ID: IM116848

ISBN: 0393002330

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: FAIR Underlining/Highlighting

GREEN HOUSE: New Directions in Sustainable Archite

By: ALANNA STANG

Price: $15.00

Publisher: UNKNOWN PUBLISHER:

Seller ID: IM517193

ISBN: 1568984812

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Torn Cover/DJ

From the arid deserts of Tucson, Arizona to the icy forests of Poori, Finland to the tropical beaches of New South Wales, Australia to the urban jungle of downtown Manhattan, critics Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or "green," homes. The result: more than thirty-five residences in fifteen countries -- and nearly every conceivable natural environment -- designed by a combination of star architects and heretofore unknown practitioners.
Six different climactic zones are presented in ...
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MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS: A History of Its Architecture

By: ANDREW S. DOLKART

Price: $9.00

Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

Seller ID: IM519725

ISBN: 0231078501

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Torn Cover/DJ

Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods. The high plateau that forms Morningside Heights is geographically isolated within the city and remained largely undeveloped even as neighboring Harlem and the Upper West Side became prestigious residential communities. At the end of the nineteenth century, institutions relocated to the plateau where sizable plots were available at a convenient distance from the built-up city. In 1887 Episcopal Bishop Henry Potter announced plans for the construction of a gr...
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AMERICAN LOG HOMES

By: ARTHUR THIEDE

Price: $8.00

Publisher: THIED & TEIPNER:

Seller ID: IM499839

ISBN: 087857607X

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

CASTLES

By: BETH SMITH

Price: $8.00

Publisher: GROLIER PUBLISHING COMPANY:

Seller ID: IM179469

ISBN: 0531105113

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: FAIR Ex-Library

Railroad Stations

By: BRIAN SOLOMON

Price: $12.00

Publisher: METRO BOOKS (B&N):

Seller ID: IM482924

ISBN: 1567995829

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

The grand railroad stations were designed by the world's finest architects as elaborately detailed showplaces. As gateways to cities and towns, they displayed the best each metropolis had to offer. Go on a worldwide tour of the most magnificent examples, from London's St. Pancras and Paris's sensational Gare d'Orsay to Tokyo's Shinjuko station, the busiest on earth. The exquisitely photographed journey begins with a look at the role of the railroad in the 19th and 20th centuries, from the passenger train's heyday to the present time, when nearly abandoned stations are being refitted for other ...
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MID-ATLANTIC LIGHTHOUSES : HUDSON RIVER

By: BRUCE ROBERTS

Price: $9.00

Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS:

Seller ID: IM364104

ISBN: 1564409848

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Sixteen lighthouses were built before the Revolution; hundreds more have been built since, creating the world's most complex system of navigational aid. No other national lighthouse system compares with that of the United States in size and diversity of architecture and engineering.
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NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSES

By: BRUCE ROBERTS

Price: $8.00

Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS:

Seller ID: IM297812

ISBN: 0871064790

Binding: PB Large

Condition: GOOD Condition

SOUTHERN LIGHTHOUSES

By: BRUCE ROBERTS

Price: $10.00

Publisher: LYONS PRESS:

Seller ID: IM242523

ISBN: 0762712430

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Southern Lighthouses combines the fascinating history and lore of lighthouses with stunning color and black-and-white photographs. The stories of the most significant coastal lighthouses from North Carolina to Florida come alive in the stirring profiles and photos contained in these pages.
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RESTAURANT STYLE

By: CHARLES M. MOUNT

Price: $12.00

Publisher: PBC INTERNATIONAL INC.:

Seller ID: IM474542

ISBN: 0866363955

Binding: PB Large

Condition: GOOD Condition

MASSACHUSETTS LIGHTHOUSES

By: COURTNEY THOMPSON

Price: $10.00

Publisher: SELF PUBLISHED:

Seller ID: IM322993

ISBN: 096517865X

Binding: PB Large

Condition: VERY Good Author Signed

BIG DIG

By: DAN McNICHOL

Price: $10.00

Publisher: SILVER LINING:

Seller ID: IM239695

ISBN: 076073786X

Binding: PB Large

Condition: GOOD Condition

This regional blockbuster reached #1 on the Boston GlobeUs bestseller list. Filled with dozens of remarkable photos and fascinating archival illustrations, it pulsates with details only an insider like McNichol, former director of the project who was in at the conception, could provide.
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BUILDING ADDITIONS DESIGN

By: DAVID R. DIBNER

Price: $25.00

Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES:

Seller ID: IM31761

ISBN: 0070167613

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Condition

BUILDING ADDITIONS DESIGN

By: DAVID R. DIBNER

Price: $20.00

Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES:

Seller ID: IM31762

ISBN: 0070167613

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: GOOD Torn Cover/DJ

MEXICAN CHURCHES

By: ELIOT PORTER

Price: $9.50

Publisher: CHRONICLE BOOKS:

Seller ID: IM278742

ISBN: 0811823598

Binding: PB Large

Condition: GOOD Condition

In 1956, on an extended trip through Mexico, famed photographer Eliot Porter and his photographer friend Ellen Auerbach visited several hundred churches and chapels. Hundreds of years old, the churches were often far from main roads and only very rarely photographed. In paperback for the first time, Mexican Churches is a glowing record of the exuberance and splendor of these sanctuaries, many of which no longer exist today or have been considerably altered. The devotion and spirituality of the Mexican people is abundantly apparent in the carved statues of saints, the beautifully decorated alta...
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CHIEF ENGINEER: Washington Roebling, the Man Who B

By: ERICA WAGNER

Price: $14.00

Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (MPS):

Seller ID: IM489850

ISBN: 1620400510

Binding: HC w/DJ

Condition: VERY Good Condition

The first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story--Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge.

"I know that nothing can be done perfectly at the first trial; I also know that each day brings its little quota of experiences, which with honest intentions, will lead to perfection after a while." --Washington Roebling

His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but after John Roebling's sudden death, Washington Roebling built what has become one of American's most iconic structures--as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty ...
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AMERICA'S LIGHTHOUSES : AN ILLUSTRATED H

By: F. ROSS HOLLAND

Price: $7.00

Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.:

Seller ID: IM169625

ISBN: 048625576X

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

Richly illustrated fact-filled survey of American lighthouses since 1716. Includes over 200 stations -- East, Gulf, and West coasts, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers. The author also traces the development of the lighthouse from the Pharos of Alexandria to today.

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Design Spirits

By: GAIL BELLAMY

Price: $15.00

Publisher: PBC INTERNATIONAL INC.:

Seller ID: IM474539

ISBN: 0866364269

Binding: PB Large

Condition: GOOD Condition

A kaleidoscope of designs, from Paris to Pittsburgh.
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CHICAGO CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES

By: GEORGE LANE

Price: $15.00

Publisher: LOYOLA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

Seller ID: IM521363

ISBN: 0829403736

Binding: HC w/JA Large

Condition: VERY Good Condition

Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

By: GIORGIO BONSANTI

Price: $12.50

Publisher: ABRAMS:

Seller ID: IM529162

ISBN: 0810927675

Binding: PB Large

Condition: VERY Good Condition

This book contains a collection of photographs taken immediately before the September 1997 earthquake which virtually destroyed the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, Italy. It features the last pictures of the basilica's vault while still intact, with its frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto.
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