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Survival City Adventures among the Ruins of Atomic America

Vanderbilt Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226846941, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 80 halftones

On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruine...

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Interior Design

Stone Hill Center Tadao Ando at the Clark

Pare Richard, Webb Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300149173, Yale University Press, January 2009
64 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 47 colour images, 2 black&white illus.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando is a master of minimalism, known for his use of simple materials, his light-filled interiors, and his respect for the natural environment in which he works. This handsome book celebrates Ando's Stone Hill C...

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Sir John Vanbrugh Storyteller in Stone

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9780300119299, Yale University Press, June 2008
256 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This engaging and beautifully illustrated book looks at the remarkable life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) – by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, and (despite lacking either training or qualifications) the architect of some of the mo...

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Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Shropshire Buildings of England

Newman John, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300120837, Yale University Press, September 2006
787 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The unspoiled county of Shropshire is among the most appealing in England for lovers of architecture. The county's many historic towns, of which Shrewsbury and Ludlow are the largest, are especially plentiful in Georgian and timber-framed buildings....

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Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project

Tolles E.Leroy, Kimbro Edna K., Webster Frederick A., Ginell William S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892365876, Getty Publications, March 2006
200 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 286 black&white illus., 15 drawings

A description of the design, experimental procedures and results of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project, which set out to identify and evaluate methods for the seismic protection of historical and culturally significant Adobe structures. The book identif...

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Style-Architecture and Building-Art Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition

Muthesius Hermann, Anderson Stanford

ISBN: PB: 9780892362837, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 26x19.2 cm, 7 illus.

This text attempts to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity. Although the author, Hermann Muthesius, is perhaps most well-known in Anglo-American architectural literature for his studies of...

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Symbolic Essence and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture

Jordy William H., Bacon Mardges

ISBN: PB: 9780300094497, Yale University Press, April 2005
344 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 black&white illus.

Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's enti...

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Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume One, Books I-V of "Tutte L'opere D'architecttura Et Prospetiva"

Serlio Sebastiano, Hart Vaughan, Hicks Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300113051, Yale University Press, April 2005
528 pp., 28x21 cm

Sebastiano Serlio introduced the principles of classical design to northern Europe and was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. However, his writings have been inaccessible to English language readers until n...

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Small House in Eighteenth-Century London A Social and Architectural History

Guillery Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300102383, Yale University Press, May 2004
288 pp., 29.1x23.1 cm, 200 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

London's modest eighteenth-century houses – those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London – can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survi...

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