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San Luis Obispo was founded in 1772 as a mission in the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains on California's Central Coast. The city that grew from a rustic pueblo, with its scattering of adobe buildings, today has a wealth of architectural styles. From the simple barns of the outlying farm community, to the grand hotels and lively saloons kept busy by the Southern Pacific Railroad depot, and back full circle to the Mission Revival style edifices...
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Oxmoor House
Pub. Date
2015.
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223 pages : color photographs, col. front. ; 31 cm
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Beach people are not only "house proud," but they are irrevocably "house happy." With a unique attachment to their homes, coastal dwellers and their homes exude a certain warmth and beauty found nowhere else. Beach House Happy reveals six routes to the happiness found in beach houses, exposing how the walls and windows, doors and floors, decor and architecture combine to create an atmosphere in which we can breathe easier and be our best selves.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
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xvi, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his...
48) Green buildings
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind green buildings. Includes infographics, activity, glossary, and index."--
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Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012,©2012
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"A collection of concrete poetry, illustrations, and photographs that shows how young children's constructions, created as they play, are reflected in notable works of architecture from around the world. Includes biographies of the architects, quotations, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
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240 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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A guide to fashionable but eco-friendly decorating showcases a series of urban, suburban, and rural homes that are beautiful, liveable, and environmentally friendly and that represent an array of sizes, shapes, and styles.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Sidewalks and streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians. These uses are bound up with circulation, but are not identical with it.
#2 The public peace of cities is not kept primarily by the police. It is kept primarily by an intricate network of voluntary controls and...
54) Eco Houses
Pub. Date
2015.
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503 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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An essential introduction to environmentally friendly homes. There are many different aspects to consider when planning for and building an eco home. How can I best decrease my carbon footprint? How energy efficient will my home be? How sustainable should my building materials be? Should I use local or recycled materials? How can I use the landscape my home is being built on to the best advantage? These can be complicated questions to answer, especially...
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Taunton Press
Pub. Date
2012, ©2012.
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237 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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"Small Houses capitalizes on the shift to small homes with an all-new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine. The featured writers, well-respected authors in their fields, look at houses--ranging from less than 1,250 sq. ft. to upward of 2,250 sq. ft.--that are both new and remodeled, urban and rural, traditional and modern. Homeowners will be pleasantly surprised that these small homes are big on charm, style, and quality, and...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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95 pages (13 folded) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Examines how architecture has evolved over time by looking at buildings that typify each period, from the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Chrysler Building and the Sydney Opera House.
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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xii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Architecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form that shapes the world as it pleases. Four Walls and a Roof challenges this notion, presenting a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect, buffeted by external forces that make a mockery of any pretense to visionary authority. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences in the field to reveal the world of contemporary architecture in vivid snapshots. He takes...
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