Frank Lloyd Wright : Inside and Out
Barnes & Noble. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Architecture
The Face of Home: A New Way to Look at the Outside of Your House
Taunton Press, April 2006. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. There are hundreds of books on the market about designing the interior of a home, but none for homeowners that focuses on the design of a home's exterior. And yet the exterior of the house.....
The Science of Structures and Materials (Scientific American Library)
Times Books, March 1988. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Mud, Space and Spirit: Handmade Adobes
Capra Press, 1976. Trade Paperback. 93 pages. 10-1/4 by 8-1/4 inches. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Wayne McCall. Very good paperback copy.
Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture
Faber & Faber, March 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Building Big
HMH Books for Young Readers, October 2000. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Why this shape and not that? Why steel instead of concrete or stone? Why put it here and not over there? These are the kinds of questions that David Macaulay asks himself.....
Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home
Kodansha International, November 2012. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely, and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect.....
Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright (Norton Library)
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The story of modern architecture is told here through the lives and works of three men who changed the face of the cities we live in: France's Le Corbusier, Germany's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and America's.....
Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture's Oldest Building Material
Rizzoli, November 2005. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the very beginning of architecture-long before the invention of masonry-buildings were constructed of wood. With its unique qualities of form, color, and structure, wood is the most reliable building material at the core of architecture.....
The Four Books of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
Dover Publications, June 1965. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Here is a Palladio for our time: the assiduous antiquarian, a bit of a magus - but above all the sensible, experienced builder and good-humored guide. Tavernor and Schofield have made all other translations redundant and their commentary has.....
The Ten Books of Architecture: The 1755 Leoni Edition
Dover Publications, January 1986. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Beautifully illustrated magnum opus of great Renaissance theorist who reintroduced the glories of ancient architecture and applied musical and mathematical principles to achieve perfection of proportion in architectural design. Reprinted from extremely rare British edition. 68 black-and-white plates...
Architectural Shades and Shadows
American Institute of Architects Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Northwest Victorians (Beautiful America)
Beautiful Amer Pub Co, June 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Long a hotbed for Victorian architecture, the northwest has often been included as an additional chapter or two in other Victorian home publications. Now, Ken Naversen, our resident Victorian expert, has devoted his considerable talents to bringing.....
Victorian Brick and Terra-Cotta Architecture in Full Color: 160 Plates (Dover Architecture)
Dover Publications, December 1989. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This sumptuous book presents 541 beautiful full-color illustrations of a distinctive architectural style that enlivened the cities and countryside of Europe in the Victorian era. Widely considered the book on brickwork, and unavailable elsewhere, it documents the ways in.....
Small Spaces: Good Ideas
Collins Design, November 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Baroque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
hf ULLMANN, June 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises
US Green Building Council, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods and communities shapes every aspect of our live, yet where architects are most desperately needed, they can least.....
Fallingwater: The Model
Rizzoli, February 2001. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. An analysis of the model yields fresh insights about the house.
Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture - Man in Possession of his Earth
Doubleday & Company, January 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building
Academy Press, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Second edition. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Features extensive illustrations. * Commercially available products are compared with the work of leading designers. * Publication of the Second Edition is to coincide with a major exhibition, "Living in Motion," co-currated by the author...
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Bloomsbury USA, May 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it. On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's.....
The Metropolis of Tomorrow (Dover Architecture)
Dover Publications, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In 1916, New York City enacted zoning laws that mandated the building of "set-back" structures so that light and air would be more freely admitted into the streets below. This concept was first proposed by Louis Sullivan in his.....
The Rugo Residence (Benicia, California)
Joe Hansen, n.d. ca. 1980. Photograph. 2 page typed description by Hansen of the energy-efficient design of the Rugo residence in Benicia, Hansen's first green building. With 2 color photographs of the completed structure. A near fine copy of description and photographs.
If you are going to build: Savings in building that have been effected by architects to the advantage of their clients
International Publications, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 31 pages. Frontispiece photographic image of author. Pamphlet argues that using an architect in building a home or business may save money. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in pale green wrappers (paperback).
California Homes: The Better Housing Magazine. Spring Home Planning Issue. April, 1936
California Homes, 1936. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 63 pages. Includes 'California Homes Portfolio of Home Plans and Building Costs' for Plans No. 24-53 by named architects and builders, each with drawing of home and floor plan. Additional articles and charts of 'California Homes Cost Chart,' and 'Cost of Building a......