Kahn, Lloyd
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 KAHAl, 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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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 MCMDean, Andrea Oppenheimer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.71 DEAKallipoliti, Lydia
Summary: From the space program to countercultural architectural groups experimenting with autonomous living, The Architecture of Closed Worlds documents a disciplinary transformation and the rise of a new environmental consciousness. It presents an archive of 39 prototypes from 1928 to the present, creating a genealogy of closed-resource structures. These include the FNRS Balloon (1931), Aqualung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lars Müller 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 KALWines, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.47 WINWinter, Jeanette
Summary: A biography of architect Zaha Hadid, who grew up in Baghdad and went on to design buildings all over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Winter 2017Bandes, 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 BandesHoagland, Alison K.
Summary: During the nineteenth century, the Keweenaw Peninsula of Northern Michigan was the site of America's first mineral land rush as companies hastened to profit from the region's vast copper deposits. In order to lure workers to such a remote location--and work long hours in dangerous conditions--companies offered not just competitive wages but also helped provide the very infrastructure of town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2010
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Summary: The airport terminal, the most important building type in the world of transportation, is also the site of the most ambitious and innovative achievements in 20th-century architecture. From the timber runway used during the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to modern glass-and-steel structures, from military buildings housing fighter planes to public spaces for both travel and shopping,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 PEAArbogast, Joan Marie.
Summary: Readers trace the history of fantastic buildings designed to mimic elephants, beagles, baskets, binoculars, and more. Imagine climbing "into an elephant, sitting "inside a sombrero, or working "inside a basket. These things are possible with mimetic architecture. From north to south, from east to west, buildings designed to look like beagles, baskets and binoculars dot the American landscape....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 720 ARBMcAlester, Virginia
Summary: Provides in-depth descriptions and illustrations of architectural styles and features of everyday domestic dwellings across the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.0973 MCAPolson, Mary Ellen.
Contents: Style on the outside -- A face to the world -- Exterior appearances -- Playing up your best features -- Architectural elements -- Transforming an exterior -- The entry -- The front door -- The right accents -- Landings and porches -- The approach -- Shaping the landscape -- Walks and paths -- Lighting the landscape -- Supporting players -- Fences, walls, and gates -- Driveways -- Garages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.37 PolSchopieray, Julie
Summary: Historian and published biographer Julie Schopieray once again brings an unknown figure to life. Readers, especially those familiar with Traverse City, Michigan, will wonder why they had not heard of Jens C. Petersen before—and will appreciate reading about this remarkable man who lived in Northern Michigan for nearly thirty-five years. Most likely the first licensed architect to ever work in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Julie Schopiery 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 921 PETWallace, William E.
Summary: As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI WALBloch, R. Howard
Summary: "For history readers, travelers, and scholars alike, an indispensable behind-the-scenes guide to the great cathedrals of Paris from one of our leading scholars. Eminent French literature professor R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for his insider tours of Paris, given to college students abroad. Long sought after for his encyclopedic knowledge of French cathedrals, Bloch has at last decided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.463 BLOPomada, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.37 POMGaynor, Elizabeth
Summary: A survey of homes and furnishings adapted to their natural environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.0948 GAYReeves, Diane Lindsey
Summary: Provides information about careers in architecture and construction, and explains the responsibilities and education needed for each.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 720 REEYoshida, Seiji
Summary: "A dreamer's tree house. A mechanic's cottage. A submerged city. Over thirty imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who is the mischievous bridgetower keeper? What does the witch grow in her garden? How does the postal worker tame his delivery dragons? In each house, readers discover the contents of rooms and closets, what's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 720 YOSArnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017