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Will JonesPublication Details
BookThames & Hudson2009Availability
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Unbuilt Masterworks Of The 21st Century : Inspirational Architecture For The Digital Age
New Tent Architecture
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Philip DrewPublication Details
BookThames & Hudson2008Description
The first major book on the history of the tent and its use, along with an international survey of the most exciting and wide-ranging contemporary fabric structures. New Tent Architecture begins with a comprehensive introduction to the origins, contemporary manifestations, and ecological elegance of the tent. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA4160 .D725 2008 AVAILABLE
Mitchell/Giurgola, Architects : Selected And Current Works
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[edited by Stephen Dobney ; introduction by Mildred F. Schmertz]Publication Details
BookImages Pub. Group1996Description
From 1995 to the present significant projects for public institutional academic and corporate clients have been featured. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA737.M57 A4 1996 AVAILABLE
Stone & Feather : Steven Holl Architects / The Nelson- Atkins Museum Expansion
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essay by Jeffrey Kipnis ; with contributions by Steven Holl and Chris McVoy ; and an introductory essay by Marc F. Wilson ; principal photography by Roland HalbePublication Details
BookPrestel2007Description
Holl’s expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art achieves a fusion of architecture with landscape that redefines the boundaries of the museum-going experience while creating one of the most unorthodox and breathtakingly beautiful examples of recent museum design. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA6695 .H64 2007 AVAILABLE
Cheap And Tasteful Dwellings : Design Competitions And The Convenient Interior, 1879-1909
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Jan JenningsPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Tennessee Press2005Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA2340 .J46 2005 AVAILABLE
Capital Drawings : Architectural Designs For Washington, D.C., From The Library Of Congress
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edited by C. Ford Peatross ; with the assistance of Pamela Scott, Diane Tepfer, and Leslie FreudenheimPublication Details
BookThe Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Library of Congress2005Links
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Over the past ten years, the Library of Congress has cataloged more than forty thousand drawings, prints, and photographs that capture important developments in the growth of Washington, D.C., and its greater metropolitan area, including Virginia and Maryland. Capital Drawings features drawings for some of Washington’s most important buildings, monuments, and memorials — the United States Capitol, the White House, and the Vietnam Memorial — as well as anonymous structures of everyday life and ambitious projects that were never built. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA2695.U6 L533 2005 AVAILABLE
Santiago Calatrava : Milwaukee Art Museum Quadracci Pavilion
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by Cheryl Kent ; foreword by David GordonPublication Details
BookRizzoli2005Description
While his most recent success was the much-lauded (and much-televised) stadium, velodrome, and other structures of the Athens Olympics, Calatrava first established his reputation as the preeminent engineer of our time with a stunning series of bridges designed for cities around the globe?Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Orl (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N582.M5 .K46 2005 AVAILABLE
Beauty All Around You : How To Create Large Private Low- Maintenance Gardens, Even On Small Lots And Small Budgers
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Robert Gillmore ; photographs by Eileen OktavecPublication Details
BookSant Bani Press2000Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) SB473 .G54 2000 AVAILABLE
Architecture For The Shroud : Relic And Ritual In Turin
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John Beldon ScottPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2003Links
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Finally, Scott describes how the additional need for an outdoor stage for the public showing of the relic to the thousands who came to Turin to see it also helped shape the urban plan of the city and its transformation into the Savoyard capital. Exploring the mystique of this enigmatic relic and investigating its architectural and urban history for the first time, Architecture for the Shroud will appeal to anyone curious about the textile, its display, and the architectural settings designed to enhance its veneration and boost the political agenda of the ruling family. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA5621.T823 S36 2003 AVAILABLE
Small House Designs
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edited by Kenneth R. Tremblay, Jr. & Lawrence von BamfordPublication Details
BookStorey Communications1997Description
The book contains 34 individual designs, including traditionally styled homes that would fit nicely in older, established neighborhoods, unusual homes built into hillsides, a visually stunning urban row house, small homes for the backwoods that appear to float in the air like tree houses, and many more. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA7126 .S63 1997 AVAILABLE
The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition : Skyscraper Design And Cultural Change In The 1920s
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Katherine SolomonsonPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2001Description
The Chicago Tribune Tower competition was one of the largest, most important and most controversial design contests of the 1920s. Analyzing how the competition contributed to changing concepts of the skyscraper, it also demonstrates how it engaged with the production of consumer culture, with conflicts of national identity and cultural unity, and with a newspaper’s efforts to produce a civic and corporate icon during the turbulent years following World War I. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA6233.C4 C466 2001 AVAILABLE
The Wise Master Builder : Platonic Geometry In Plans Of Medieval Abbeys And Cathedrals
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Nigel HiscockPublication Details
BookAshgate2000Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA4850 .H57 2000 AVAILABLE
Houses From Books : Treatises, Pattern Books, And Catalogs In American Architecture, 1738-1950 : A History And Guide
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Daniel D. ReiffPublication Details
BookPennsylvania State University Press2000Description
Houses from Books shows that architectural publications, from Palladio?s I Quattro Libri to Aladdin?s Readi-Cut Homes, played a decisive role in every aspect of American domestic building. Reiff discusses the people and the firms who produced the books as well as the ways in which builders and architects adapted the designs in communities throughout the country. Houses from Books reconstructs this dialogue by examining the links between the published designs and the houses themselves. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA7205 .R435 2001 AVAILABLE
Guidelines For Recording Historic Ships
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Richard K. Anderson, JrPublication Details
BookNational Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior1988Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) VM297 .A53 1988 AVAILABLE
Building An American Identity : Pattern Book Homes And Communities, 1870-1900
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Linda E. SmeinsPublication Details
BookAltaMira Press1999Description
Building an American Identity is an excellent resource for architectural historians, historic preservations, educators and anyone interested in the social history behind the building of America’s Victorian homes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA7571 .S54 1999 AVAILABLE
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