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Summary: Presents a guide to homemade shelter, featuring images and ideas culled from across the globe, and includes bottle homes in the Nevada desert, tree houses on the South China Sea, and Japanese stilt houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690 KAHSummary: "From sunset at Stonehenge to the steps of the Forbidden City, see the wonders of the world and the people who built and used them brought back to life in stunning detail. Discover humanity's greatest monuments restored to their former glory in this guide to the wonders of the world. Incredible History: Wonders of the World turns back time to reveal realistic reconstructions of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 722 BACAl, Stefan
Summary: "The global boom in skyscrapers-why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and people. We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al-himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 ALHaneman, John Theodore.
Summary: Anyone seeking to understand the basic principles underlying architectural design will find this classic source book an invaluable addition to the bookshelf. Haneman's 1,800 captioned, clear line drawings on 70 large-size plates comprise an inexhaustible storehouse of suggestion and inspiration for architects, designs, preservationists and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 721 HANSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: Examines the impact architects and designers have had on Palm Springs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage, and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press, Inc. 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cranbrook Academy of Art 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: NEL RM 715 DesignBahamón, Alejandro.
Contents: Houses : Gama-Issa House / Marcio Kogan -- City Hill House / John Wardle Architects -- House in Honda / Guillermo Arias + Luis Cuartas -- Beach house / Christoff:Finio archtiecture -- Casa Larga / Daniele Claudio Taddei -- House in Miravalle / Wood + Zapata -- Castor Packard House / Callas Shortridge Architects -- May Residence / Jonathan Levi Architects -- C-House / Toshimitsu Kuno, Nobuki...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Könemann 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 BAHBrower, Felicia
Summary: "This STEM-based set of True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach more environmentally friendly goals"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 728 BROMcMahon, Peter
Summary: In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now.The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 MCMSummary: "Explores the variety of minimalist projects in art, design and architecture"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feierabend Verlag 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Television program that explores the Inca civilization from the perspective of their construction techniques. Archaeological teams use traditional building techniques to test their hypotheses, including the building of a 150-foot suspension bridge using nothing but grass.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECBeaty, Andrea
Summary: Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York are world famous for their camps built from the land, surrounded by some of the most inspiring, untamed and stunning landscape in the world. This rugged terrain gave birth to its own form of distinctive architecture that has stood the test of time and remains a classic. Although the original great camps of the 1900s were so talked about because of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2004
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Summary: "A picture book biography of the four Moody sisters who designed and built fairy tale-like cottages in Santa Barbara in the 1930s and 1940s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAYSusanka, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728 SUSCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728 SUSSummary: So long McMansions and rambling square footage small homes are in! Easier to maintain and more affordable in hard economic times, small houses are gaining popularity in the housing market after nearly 60 years of trending up in size. Small Houses capitalizes on this shift with an all new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine. The featured writers, well respected authors in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Taunton Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662 TAUBandes, Susan J.
Summary: From 1940 to 1970 mid-Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alden B. Dow, and the Keck brothers, the text—based on archival research and oral histories—focuses more heavily on regional architects whose work was strongly influenced by international modern styles. The reader will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Arts BandesKeppeler, Jill
Summary: Text and photographs look at how to build castles in Minecraft, focusing on how to build arches, drawbridges, towers, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM KeppelerPlatt, Richard
Summary: A collection of cross-section drawings introduce young readers to the inner workings of the world's most fascinating structures and locations, including a space station, airport, movie studio, windmill, the Tower Bridge, the Grand Canyon, and Venice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2019