Category: Architecture

Foxing to the covers and first few pages. Reading creases to the spine. 96 pages with Index of Places in France. Numerous black and white illustrations.
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The See-Through Years: Creation and Destruction in Texas Architecture, 1981-1991

By: Barna, Joel Warren

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Houston, Texas, Rice University Press: 1992

Seller ID: 06056

ISBN: 0892633166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

288 pages, including Notes and Index. The author examines the buildings in Texas cities in the 1980s, which started with a flurry of architectural exploration and construction activity only to see many of tall completed structures vacant by the decade's end. The title of Barna's book alludes to these empty buildings that created a "see-through" character.
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The Decorative Tradition

By: Barnard, Julian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, The Pyne Press: 1973

Seller ID: 05117

ISBN: 0878610642

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Small chip and edge tear to jacket. 144 pages, with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with numerous black & white photos. A survey of design and decoration in Victorian England architecture.
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Moscow: An Architectural History

By: Berton, Kathleen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd.: 1990

Seller ID: 10128

ISBN: 1850432627

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Mark to top edge of the page block. Previous owner label on title page. Otherwise, clean throughout. 256 pages withBibliography, Index, and numerous black and white photos.
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Steel, Structure, and Architecture: A Survey of the Material and Its Applications

By: Eggen, Arne Petter; Sandaker, Bjorn Normann;Sandaker, Bjrn Normann

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Whitney Library of Design: 1995

Seller ID: 07149

ISBN: 0823050203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

256 pages, illustrated. Notes, Bibliography, Index.
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The Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren

By: Furst, Viktor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Lund Humphries: 1956

Seller ID: 07214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very light shelf wear. 244 pages with Appendices, Notes, Catalogue Raisonne, A Note on the Wren Drawings, Abstract of the Wren Library, Select Bibliography, and Index. 157 illustrations.
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Houston Architectural Ballade

By: Gertsman, Valentin L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houston, Mills & Morris Publishing: 2000

Seller ID: 06317

ISBN: 096454931x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Text block bowed slightly. Jacket has a trace of rubbing and a few tiny scratches on the front panel that are barely visible. Photographic essay on the contemporary architecture and outdoor sculptures of Houston, Texas. 104 photographs illustrate this limited edition, of which this is one of 5,000 copies. Published with the assistance of the Houston Architecture Foundation.
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Life in the French Country House

By: Girouard, Mark

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 10009

ISBN: 0679427112

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Small red dot remainder mark on the top edge of the page block, otherwise a fine copy. 352 pages with Notes and Index. Lavishly illustrated with 200 photographs and other images, nearly all in full color. The author is a leading British architectural historian. From the Foreword: "This book is concerned with how French châteaux and seigneurial residences were lived in from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries, and how the way in which they were used was reflected in their planning and architecture.
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Stories & Legends in the Architectural Decorations of Chen's Lineage Hall, 5 Volumes in Slipcase

By: Guangdong Folk Arts Museum (Editors)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: China, Lingnan Art Publishing House: 2010

Seller ID: 08760

ISBN: 7536244533

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Each volume about 5 X 7 inches. All are in new condition in a slipcase with a hint of wear. Chen's Lineage Hall is the largest and best preserved traditional art architecture in the Guangdong Province in China. More than 200 subjects have been selected from the decorative patterns of Chen's Lineage Hall, covering seven categories, including Stone Carving, Wood Carving, Pottery Sculpture, Lime Sculpture, Brick Carving, Copper and Iron Casting, and Color Painting. Each volume is about 60 pages and illustrated.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Glass Art

By: Heinz, Thomas A.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Academy Editions: 1994

Seller ID: 09088

ISBN: 1854902954

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Trace of wear, bumping to corners and light wear at the upper corner of the dust jacket, front panel. 264 pages with Bibliography and Glass Glossary. 396 illustrations, mostly in color. From the publisher: "This lavishly illustrated book devotes itself to Wright's formidable contribution to the medium and features a number of powerful two-dimensional graphic designs and a number of three-dimensional units. Stained glass in the USA as well as the technical aspects of glass making are discussed. The majority of his work in glass was concentrated into the first decade of the 20th century when...
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Feudal Architecture of Japan

By: Hirai, Kiyoshi

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/Tokyo, Weatherhill/Heibonsha: 1973

Seller ID: 08597

ISBN: 0834810042

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Previous owner stamp on title page. 166 pages with 161 illustrations, including 20 in full color and 32 architectural drawings. Volume 13 in the Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art.
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Western Islamic Architecture

By: Hoag, John D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller: 1963

Seller ID: 05503

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

128 pages, with Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index. More than 100 illustrations including photographs, plans and drawings.
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Town Houses

By: Hope, Alice

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hayden Book Company, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 08858

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear to boards. The dust jacket has a few edge tears and some large chips. Protected now, with improved looks and handling, in a clear Mylar sleeve. The author uses more than 200 photos and plans to present a range of British houses, old and new. Forty-two houses are analyzed and described in revealing detail. 159 pages.
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Architectural Monuments of Georgia

By: Janberidze , Nodar and Irakly Tsitsishvili

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Moscow, Russia, Stroyizdat: 1996

Seller ID: 10261

ISBN: 5274022235

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Scientific Edition, English language. Black leatherette, slightly bumped corners and spine ends. Blind stamped design on the front cover depicting an architectural structure. 376 pages with numerous black and white and color photos of examples of Georgian architecture, some structures dating as far back as the 5th-4th millennium, B.C.
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Richard Meier

By: Jodidio, Philip

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Germany, Taschen: 1995

Seller ID: 06719

ISBN: 3822892564

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff pictorial covers with printed flaps. A few light scratches to the rear cover. Meier's signature on the first blank page, but it appears to be facsimile. 176 pages, with Chronology, Biography, Bibliography, and Photographic Credits. A survey of Meier's architectural work. Text in English, German, and French.
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Greek Architecture

By: Lawrence, A.W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: 1957

Seller ID: 08851

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Some scuffing and scratches to the covers. Label on the spine is peeling and worn away in places. Foxing to the endpapers and a previous owner stamp on the front free endpaper. 327 pages with Notes, Bibliography, a section of 152 black and white plates, and Index. Other illustrations include 171 figures and 3 maps, and 2 diagrams.
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Builders' Blueprints: How to Read Them

By: Lowndes, Ph.B., William S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Scranton, Pennsylvania, International Textbook Company: 1928

Seller ID: 03142

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Red cloth with gilt stamping. Moderate wear to spine ends and corners. Rubbing wear along the fore-edge and rear cover. Foxing to the endpapers. No marks or stains. Previous owner name in small script on front pastedown. A detailed book with many illustrations and blueprint examples designed to help the mechanic, or tradesman, understand more of what his foreman understands about reading and interpreting blueprints. As this volume was prepared in the 1920s, it could today serve as a useful reference to architecture and architectural drawing from that era.
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Building Diplomacy: The Architecture of American Embassies

By: Lui, Elizabeth Gill

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York and London, Four Stops Press / Cornell University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 09376

ISBN: 0801443261

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Previous owner bookplate on the half-title page and the facing page appears to have had a plate of some sort removed (residue remains). Small tear on the top edge of the dust jacket's rear panel, otherwise fine. 267 pages with numerous color photographs (shot 2000-2003) documenting the architecture of U.S. embassies. Endpaper maps--antiquarian and modern.
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Ten Houses: Peter L. Gluck and Partners

By: Ojeda, Oscar Riera (Editor, Foreword)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Rockport, Massachusetts, Rockport Publishers: 1997

Seller ID: 06563

ISBN: 1564963144

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

Rear cover slightly rubbed, else a fine copy. 105 pages. Ten houses designed by Peter L. Gluck and Partners, each illustrated with color photos and architectural drawings. Firm profile and photo credits at back of book. Introduction by Paul Goldberger.
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Category: Architecture