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James Stewart Polshek : Context And Responsibility : Buildings And Projects, 1957-1987

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introductory essays by Helen Searing and Gwendolyn Wright
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Book, Rizzoli, 1988
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Polshek, James Stewart · Architects · United States · Biography · Architecture · History · 20th century · Polshek, James Stewart
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.P55 A2 1988 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.P55 A2 1988	AVAILABLE

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Bertram Goodhue : His Life And Residential Architecture

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Romy Wyllie
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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A look at an American architect of exceptional vision whose work has been neither fully researched nor appreciated. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, · 1869-1924 · Architects · United States · Biography · Architecture, Domestic · Wyllie, Romy
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.G6 W95 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.G6 W95 2007	AVAILABLE

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Louis I. Kahn : Beyond Time And Style : A Life In Architecture

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Carter Wiseman
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Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2007
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Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members?and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs?this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Louis I., · 1901-1974 · Architects · United States · Biography · Architecture · 20th century · Wiseman, Carter
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.K32 W57 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.K32 W57 2007	AVAILABLE

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Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect : Beaux-arts To Modernism In New York

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Jewel Stern and John A. Stuart
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Book, 1st ed, Norton, 2006
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One of the fabled “three Napoleons” of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career, and approximately three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Kahn, Ely Jacques, · 1884-1972 · Architects · United States · Biography · Architecture · New York (State) · New York · 20th century · Stern, Jewel, 1934- · Stuart, John A
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.K3 S74 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.K3 S74 2006	AVAILABLE

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Frank Furness : Architecture And The Violent Mind

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Michael J. Lewis
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Book, Norton, 2001
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This first biography details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, probes the horror of war and its translation into aggressive architecture–train stations, banks, and libraries–and illuminates Furness’s influence on his century and the world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Furness, Frank, · 1839-1912 · Architecture · United States · 19th century · 20th century · Architects · Biography · États-Unis · 19e siècle · 20e siècle · Biographies · Lewis, Michael J., 1957-
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.F84 L49 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.F84 L49 2001	AVAILABLE

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Buckminster Fuller : Designing For Mobility

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Michael John Gorman
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Book, Skira, 2005
Description
The book features never-before-published material from the Fuller archives that were recently donated to Stanford University.Michael John Gorman’s essay offers an in-depth analysis of Fuller’s work-focusing more attention on his innovative architectural projects than to other aspects of Fuller’s “design science”-as well as an interesting perspective on post-war American society and architectural culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Fuller, R. Buckminster · (Richard Buckminster), · 1895- · Engineers · United States · Biography · Architects · Inventors · Gorman, Michael John
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(UPPER LEVEL) TA140.F9 G67 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	TA140.F9 G67 2005	AVAILABLE

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Design For Life : The Architecture Of Sim Van Der Ryn

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Sim Van der Ryn
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Book, 1st ed, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005
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Design for Life: The Architecture of Sim Van der Ryn surveys the work and principles of Sim Van der Ryn, a world leader in the field of sustainable architecture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Van der Ryn, Sim · Architects · United States · Biography · Architecture · Environmental aspects · Van der Ryn, Sim
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.V36 A2 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.V36 A2 2005	AVAILABLE

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Ada Louise Huxtable
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Book, Lipper/Viking, 2004
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From the way we build to the way we live, Frank Lloyd Wright?s influence on American architecture is visible all around us. Now, Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize- winning architecture writer for The Wall Street Journal?and chief architecture critic for The New York Times for nearly twenty years?offers an outstanding look at the architect and the man. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, · 1867-1959 · Architects · United States · Biography · Huxtable, Ada Louise · Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.W7 H89 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.W7 H89 2004	AVAILABLE

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Mall Maker : Victor Gruen, Architect Of An American Dream

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M. Jeffrey Hardwick
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Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Jeffrey Hardwick relates Gruen’s successes and failures–his work at the 1939 World’s Fair, his makeover of New York’s Fifth Avenue boutiques, his rejected plans for reworking entire communities, such as Fort Worth, Texas, and his crowning achievement, the enclosed shopping mall. Gruen championed the redesign of suburbs and cities through giant shopping malls, earnestly believing that he was promoting an American ideal, the ability to build a community. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Gruen, Victor, · 1903- · Expatriate architects · United States · Biography · Architects · Austria · Stores, Retail · History · 20th century · Shopping malls · Hardwick, M. Jeffrey · Gruen, Victor, 1903-
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.G78 H37 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.G78 H37 2004	AVAILABLE

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Frank Lloyd Wright, His Life And His Architecture

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Robert C. Twombly
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Book, Wiley, 1979
Description
A complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, covering Wright’s private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, · 1867-1959 · Influence · Architects · United States · Biography · Twombly, Robert C
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(UPPER LEVEL) NA737.W7 T95 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	NA737.W7 T95	AVAILABLE

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Buckminster Fuller Institute

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Marcel Breuer, Architect : The Career And The Buildings

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Isabelle Hyman
Publication Details
Book, H.N. Abrams, 2001
Description
During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to London, Harvard University, and then New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential, and remarkably varied body of work. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Breuer, Marcel, · 1902- · Architects · United States · Biography · Modern movement (Architecture) · Hyman, Isabelle · Breuer, Marcel, 1902-
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA737.B68 H97 2001 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA737.B68 H97 2001	AVAILABLE

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Robert Mills : America’s First Architect

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John M. Bryan
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Book, 1st ed, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001
Description
The first architect trained in America, Robert Mills is best known as the designer of many iconic buildings in our nation’s capital: the Washington Monument, the Department of Treasury headquarters, the Patent Office Building (now National Portrait Gallery), and the Post Office Headquarters. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Mills, Robert, · 1781-1855 · Criticism and interpretation · Architecture · United States · 19th century · Architects · Biography · Bryan, John Morrill
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA737.M5 B78 2001 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA737.M5 B78 2001	AVAILABLE

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I.M. Pei : A Profile In American Architecture

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Carter Wiseman
Publication Details
Book, Rev. ed, H.N. Abrams, 2001
Description
The revised edition of Abrams’ 1990 book features a new chapter that covers Pei’s work between 1990 and 2001-a flurry of creativity that included commissions for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the final phases of work on the Louvre, and museums in Luxembourg, Germany, and Japan. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Pei, I. M., · 1917- · Architects · United States · Biography · Wiseman, Carter
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) NA737.P365 W57 2001 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	NA737.P365 W57 2001	AVAILABLE

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Mielziner : Master Of Modern Stage Design

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Mary C. Henderson ; foreword by Frank Rich
Publication Details
Book, Back Stage Books : published in association with the New York Public Library, 2001
Description
The greatest American stage designer of the twentieth century is celebrated in the first fully documented book on his prolific, five-decade-plus career, spanning 260 plays, musicals, ballets, operas, and motion pictures. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Mielziner, Jo, · 1901- · Set designers · United States · Biography · Theaters · Stage-setting and scenery · Architects · Henderson, Mary C., 1928- · New York Public Library
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) PN2096.M5 H464 2001 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	PN2096.M5 H464 2001	AVAILABLE

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