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Series
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Description
"5-Minute Sketching -- Architecture can help artists of all abilities -- but especially novices -- to understand and reproduce real-life perspective in their drawings. The rules of perspective will become instinctive and the artist can focus on the creative: decorative forms, the setting, the mood, the people, and the activity that gives life to architecture."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Sunset Books
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
414 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Description
Completely redesigned and updated for today's homeowner and landscape professional, this book has the proven, reliable, expert information that readers have come to expect from the Western Garden brand. Much more than an idea book, this book is designed to inspire homeowners by showcasing the West's best garden design, and--more practically--to give Do-It-Yourselfers enough information to tackle basic projects on their own, making their gardens look...
23) The big book of small house designs: 75 award-winning plans for houses 1,250 square feet or less
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
362 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Series
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations ; 33 x 15 cm.
Description
"In Who Built That? Bridges, illustrator Didier Cornille presents ten of the most important bridges in the world, from the world's first cast-iron bridge (The Iron Bridge) to the longest pre-stressed concrete bridge in the southern hemisphere (The Rio-Niteroi Bridge) to the tallest bridge in the world (the Millau Viduct). Introducing each engineer or architect, the main concepts of their work, as well as some of their most important projects in charming...
Author
Publisher
Motorbooks Intl
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
The countryside remains a vital part of French life, but that does not mean that French country houses are set in decorative aspic. When designing modern houses, it is natural to employ contemporary design solutions, but these same types of solution and innovations work equally as well when applied to old spaces that have been converted, renovated or just revived with new uses. Country living is associated with a relaxed, more informal way of life,...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
238 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Description
This is an unprecedented tour of breathtaking beach community and waterfront properties in idyllic settings such as Southern California, Florida, the Hamptons, and Puerto Vallarta is showcased in this alluring volume.
32) Dwell 2023
Publisher
Pixie Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2000-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter selection sheet.
Description
The Roman Empire gave history one of its most eventful and colorful periods. Its legacy remains for all to see in the incredible civic buildings, temples, and theaters of the ancient city.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
304 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"California Splendor, a lavish, beautifully produced, large-format volume, presents iconic California houses dating from the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento of 1857 to publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst's palatial castle in San Simeon, completed after decades of construction in 1947. The book is comprehensive in its treatment, presenting to the reader a rediscovery and fresh exploration of the state's great architectural offerings and...
35) Dwell 2024
Publisher
Pixie Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2000-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 28 cm
36) Columbus
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, an architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, they explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin's stranged relationship with his father, and Casey's reluctance...
38) Disney's Land
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park that became at once the greatest piece of urban design in the United States and the world's most prosperous tourist attraction, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli Electa, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm.
Description
Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time--among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of California. Focusing on Morgan's most famous project in the state, Hearst Castle, to which she devoted more than 30 years of her life, this volume also examines, for the first time, Morgan's fabulous early buildings...
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Paris, 1937. Andras L?vi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter's recipient, he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his?and his family?s?history.
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