10 books in Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
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Going to Town
Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.99
Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.
With 300 photos and 11 maps.
A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges... Read more >
Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.99
Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.
With 300 photos and 11 maps.
A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges... Read more >
Also available as a
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Site and Sound
The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $50.00
Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or... Read more >
The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $50.00
Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or... Read more >
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Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But... Read more >
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But... Read more >
Also available as an
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Robert A. M. Stern
On Campus
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: December 21, 2010
Price: $85.00
On Campus
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: December 21, 2010
Price: $85.00
At its best, the college campus is the representation of beliefs, of the specific character of a place, of a community, of an institution. It is the setting for the continually evolving interaction of people and ideas over time.
—Robert A. M. Stern
Ss an architect, educator, and architectural historian, Robert A...
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The President's House
1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized... Read more >
1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized... Read more >
Also available as a
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Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Towards a New Museum
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 349 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $50.00
Since first publication in 1998, Towards a New Museum has achieved iconic status as a seminal exploration of the late-20th-century revolution in museum architecture: the transformation from museum as restrained container for art to museum as exuberant companion to art. Author Victoria Newhouse critiqued numerous institutions for the display of art... Read more >
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 349 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $50.00
Since first publication in 1998, Towards a New Museum has achieved iconic status as a seminal exploration of the late-20th-century revolution in museum architecture: the transformation from museum as restrained container for art to museum as exuberant companion to art. Author Victoria Newhouse critiqued numerous institutions for the display of art... Read more >
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Pushing the Limits
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >
New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $14.95
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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British Theatres and Music Halls
Written by John Earl
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Price: $12.95
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Written by John Earl
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Price: $12.95
Read more >
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The President's House
1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $13.00
As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized... Read more >
1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $13.00
As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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