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From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe

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Delirious New York : A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

by Rem Koolhaas

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's... (learn more about this book)

Sears Tower: A Building Book from the Chicago Architecture Foundation

by Jay Pridmore

The nation's largest retailer wanted the largest headquarters in the nation, and they got it. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the 110-story anodized aluminum-clad Sears Tower occupies three acres. The bundled-tube construction allowed for more windows and more corner offices... (learn more about this book)

Young Architects: Second Nature (Young Architects)

by Architecture League of Ne

Today, so much of our environment consists of nature in an altered state, from cultivated landscapes, and processed and prefabricated materials, to simulated and artificial environments. With this in mind, the Architectural League posed the question: can architects achieve design excellence... (learn more about this book)

A Field Guide to American Houses

by Virginia McAlester

The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.

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House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live

by Winifred Gallagher

Ethan Allen and HGTV may have plenty to say about making a home look right, but what makes a home feel right? In House Thinking , journalist and cultural critic Winifred Gallagher takes the reader on a psychological tour of the American home. By drawing on the latest research in behavioral... (learn more about this book)

Hollywood At Home (Architectural Digest)

by Architectural Digest

Among the most popular articles in Architectural Digest 's illustrious eight-decade history is the series featuring the homes of Hollywood movie stars and directors since the 1930s. Hollywood at Home presents 25 of the best of those articles, offering an intimate look at some of the silver... (learn more about this book)

Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City

by Neal Bascomb

The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.  In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a... (learn more about this book)

Aia Guide to New York City

by Norval White, Elliot Willensky

Since the AIA Guide to New York City was first published in 1967, it has been recognized as the ultimate guide to the metropolis's buildings, in all five boroughs -- Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island -- from nineteenth-century brownstones and tenements to modern... (learn more about this book)

Atomic Ranch

by Michelle Gringeri-Brown

Atomic Ranch is an in-depth exploration of post-World War II residential architecture in America. Authors Michelle Gringeri Brown and Jim Brown, founders and publishers of the popular quarterly Atomic Ranch magazine, extol the virtues of the tract, split-level, rambler home and its... (learn more about this book)