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Art deco San Francisco Art deco San Francisco Therese Poletti xi, 243 pages : 32 cm OL11804173W
Beauty of the city Beauty of the city Philip Niles "During a period of rapid growth in Portland, after the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and before the Great Depression, Albert E. Doyle was the city's most important architect. Beauty of the Cit… OL11952886W
Mario Botta, architectural poetics Mario Botta, architectural poetics Mario Botta "This volume presents the work of the Swiss-born architect who worked as an assistant to such architecture giants as Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn before starting his own firm in 1970 and achieving … OL1654405W
The rain tree The rain tree Mirabel Osler A beautifully written celebration of a life well lived. A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love l… OL16558833W
His invention so fertile His invention so fertile Adrian Tinniswood "Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem … OL18654492W
Robert Mills Robert Mills John Morrill Bryan "The first architect trained in America, Robert Mills (1781-1855) is best known as the designer of many iconic buildings in our nation's capital: the Washington Monument, the Department of Treasury H… OL1964442W
Lives of the great gardeners Lives of the great gardeners Stephen Anderton Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it in a new manner relevant to their times. The book is d… OL20048491W
Speer Speer Joachim Fest "Albert Speer is a great enigma. An unemployed, mediocre architect when Hitler came to power in 1933, he was soon designing the Third Reich's most important buildings, developing grandiose plans to t… OL2005007W
Architecture spoken Architecture spoken Steven Holl Presents new insights into the evolving thinking, methods, and productions of unique and gifted architect, Steven Holl. OL2008392W
Norman Foster Norman Foster Deyan Sudjic This is a biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation. OL22415544W
I.M. Pei I.M. Pei Carter Wiseman "In 1990, I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture was published as the first full-length study of the life and work of this extraordinary artist. The revised edition includes a chapter on Pei's… OL2646607W
Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio "Here is an illustrated portrait of the oeuvre of one of the most accomplished architects of the Renaissance, Andrea Palladio. Following the same logic that inspired Palladio in Book II of his famous… OL3299012W
Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Ada Louise Huxtable Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architectRenowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and… OL3349252W
Julia Morgan Julia Morgan Pamela Kett-O'Connor A biography of the pioneering architect who designed many famous buildings, including the Hearst Castle in California. OL4317894W
Engineering Architecture Engineering Architecture Yasmin Sabina Khan *Engineering Architecture: The Vision of Fazlur R. Khan* focuses on Khan’s progressive ideas for large-scale building design, which he initiated in his own projects – projects such as Chicago’s 100-s… OL8063770W
John Galen Howard and the University of California John Galen Howard and the University of California Sally B. Woodbridge "Architectural historian Sally B. Woodbridge illuminates the career of John Galen Howard, the University of California's first supervising architect from 1901 to 1924. Howard, a New Englander who had… OL8288989W
Directory of British architects, 1834-1914 Directory of British architects, 1834-1914 Antonia Brodie Updated and expanded edition OL8584886W
Lewis Mumford, a Life Lewis Mumford, a Life Donald L. Miller A multitalented man of letters, Mumford is one of the ""last intellectuals,"" Russell Jacoby's term for that generation of independent writers and thinkers who once survived without a base in the uni… OL869795W
Death in a prairie house Death in a prairie house William R. Drennan The least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark Wi… OL9208665W
Pugin Pugin Rosemary Hill Pugin was one of Britain's greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working … OL9323813W
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