January New Architecture books
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Wilhelm Stiassny (1842-1910): Jüdischer Architekt und Stadtpolitiker im gesellschaftlichen Spannungsfeld des Wiener Fin de Siècle
Wilhelm Stiassny (1842-1910): Jüdischer Architekt und Stadtpolitiker im gesellschaftlichen Spannungsfeld des Wiener Fin de Siècle: NA1011.5.S745 S34 2019
Author(s): Inge Scheidl, Wolfgang Herzner, Ursula Prokop
Wien : Böhlau Verlag [2019]
In kaum einer Architektenbiographie des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts spiegeln sich der strahlende Glanz historistischer Baukunst, die dynamische Entwicklung Wiens, jüdische Emanzipationsbestrebungen und zunehmender Antisemitismus derart konzentriert wider wie im Falle Wilhelm Stiassnys. Wilhelm Stiassny (1842-1910) war ein vielseitiger Architekt der Donaumonarchie, erfolgreicher Wiener Kommunalpolitiker sowie ambitionierter Vertreter jüdischer Interessen. Seine Biographie offenbart einen herausragenden Repräsentanten der bewegten Epoche des Fin de Siècle und spiegelt das zunehmend spannungsgeladene Umfeld des erfolgreichen jüdischen Großbürgertums wider. Vor der Folie der kulturellen, politischen, sozialen sowie städtebaulichen Auf- und Umbrüche der Donaumetropole wird eine weit über das übliche Schema einer Architektenbiographie hinausgehende Analyse geboten, die Stiassnys architektonisches Oeuvre in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Dazu zählen repräsentativ gestaltete Wohn- und Geschäftshäuser, Villen, Gebäude für soziale Einrichtungen, Synagogen, Zeremonienhallen und Grabdenkmäler. Vieles entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit namhaften jüdischen Auftraggebern, deren Bedeutung für das Werk Stiassnys ebenso sichtbar wird wie sein Verdienst um die Gründung des Jüdischen Museums.
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Architecture and Argument: Team V Architecture
Architecture and Argument: Team V Architecture: NA1153.T43 A4 2019
Berlin : Hatje Cantz [2019]
The work of Team V Architecture is informed by the confidence in architecture's incontrovertibility. The studio was founded 6 1⁄4 years ago and now celebrates its first twenty-five quarters. On this occasion, the book offers the first overview on its architectural practice. The projects cover a broad spectrum from interior to urban design. They particularly stand out due to their conviction in the intricate relationship between architectural appearance and argument. Consequently, the book is dedicated to this thesis which will be addressed as a general critical topic: form is not the result of free will or determinism, but rather the logical consequence of a complex debate about why and how a certain form can embody a project's values, solutions, and aspirations.
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Chinese Brutalism Today: Concrete and Avant-Garde Architecture
Chinese Brutalism Today: Concrete and Avant-Garde Architecture: NA1545.6 .B65 2019
Author(s): Alberto Bologna
[New York] : Oro Editions [2019]
Chinese Brutalism Today' is divided into three chapters and ends with a methodological afterword that explains the reasons why the research was carried out and the scientific tools used. The first chapter is "Exposed concrete in the design process," the second is "Identity Research: Towards an Ornate Surface" and the third is "Global ambition: towards a polished surface." The narration takes place through a substantial written part accompanied by specific images that facilitate the understanding of the text. Transversally, in the narrative, an interpretation is given to the precise and ambiguous dictates announced in 2017 by President Xi Jinping: to pursue a contemporary architecture made of "international standards with Chinese characteristics."
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Australia: Modern Architectures in History
Australia: Modern Architectures in History: NA1600.2 .M37 2019
Author(s): Harry Margalit
London : Reaktion Books 2019.
This book tells the story of the architects and buildings that have defined Australia’s architectural culture since the founding of the modern nation through Federation in 1901. That year marked the beginning of a search for better city forms and buildings to accommodate the changing realities of Australian life and to express an emerging, distinctive, and, eventually, confident Australian identity. While Sydney and Melbourne were the settings for many of the major buildings, all states and territories developed architectural traditions based on distinctive histories and climates. Harry Margalit explores the flowering of these many architectural variants, from the bid to create a model city in Canberra, through the stylistic battles that opened a space for modernism, to the idealism of postwar reconstruction, and beyond to the new millennium. Australia reveals a vibrant and influential culture of the built environment, at its best when it matches civic idealism with the sensuality of a country of stunning light and landscapes.
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Defining Contemporary Professionalism: For Architects in Practice and Education
Defining Contemporary Professionalism: For Architects in Practice and Education: NA1995 .D44 2019
Author(s): Singe Kongebro
London : RIBA Publishing [2019]
This book is a series of curated essays by high-profile architecture and design leaders and educators on the topic of professionalism. The book first sets out the current agenda - defining professionalism for the architecture sector - before moving on to focus on delivering the increased professional skills curriculum content within architecture schools as set by the RIBA. With an introduction and conclusion by the Editors, this book explores what contemporary professionalism within architecture is, and its future, encouraging the current and future profession to address professionalism across the industry.
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Architecture as a Global System: Scavengers, Tribes, Warlords and Megafirms
Architecture as a Global System: Scavengers, Tribes, Warlords and Megafirms: NA2543.G46 R35 2019
Author(s): Peter Raisbeck
Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing 2019.
This book provides a clear-sighted analysis which suggests that architectural design may yet shape and order the future of cities. A clear argument that emerges is that to retain their future agency, architects must understand the contours and ecologies of practice that constitute the global system of architectural production.
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Are you an inclusive designer?
Are you an inclusive designer?: NA2545.P5 F54 2019
Author(s): Julie Fleck
London : RIBA Publishing 2019.
Despite improvements in the last 20 years we still have a long way to go before all of our buildings, places and spaces are easy and comfortable for all of us to use. This book puts forward a powerful case for a totally new attitude towards inclusivity and accessibility. Exploring both the social and the business cases for striving for better, this book will empower architects to have more enlightened discussions with their clients about why we should be striving for better than the bare minimum, and challenging the notion that inclusive design should be thought of reductively as simply a list of “special features” to be added to a final design, or that inclusivity is only about wheelchair access. This book will be to help make inclusive design business as usual rather than something that is added on to address legislation at the end of the development process. Accessible and engaging, this book will be an invaluable resource for students as well as practicing architects, richly illustrated with case studies showing both good and bad examples of inclusive design and celebrating inclusion.
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Façades: A Visual Compendium
Façades: A Visual Compendium: NA2941 .R54 2019
Author(s): Oscar Riera Ojeda
London ; Prestel Publishing [2019]
This fascinating sourcebook presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative building façades in contemporary architecture. A building's façade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of functions, from regulating light and protecting against the elements to providing insulation for temperature and sound. This absorbing book details hundreds of examples of interesting and progressive façades from around the world. Presented in colorful double-page spreads, each façade is photographed from different angles and includes engaging texts that describe their significance. Readers can learn how traditional mashrabiyas in Abu Dhabi are being engineered to respond to light and to regulate heat, how a hospital in Mexico City has been constructed with "smog-eating" tiles, and how a "bio-adaptive" façade in Germany uses algae to generate energy and provide shade. Informative and accessible, this compendium is a highly useful resource for architects, engineers, and designers.
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Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism
Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblical Israel to Modern Judaism: NA4690 .J49 2020
Author(s): Steven Fine
Leiden ; Brill [2020]
Jewish Religious Architecture explores ways that Jews have expressed their tradition in brick and mortar and wood, in stone and word and spirit, from the biblical Tabernacle to contemporary Judaism. Social historians, cultural historians, art historians and philologists have come together in this volume to explore this extraordinary architectural tradition.
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Places of Light: The Gift of Cathedrals to the World
Places of Light: The Gift of Cathedrals to the World: NA4830 .C2813 2019
Author(s): Gernot Candolini
Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press [2019]
Candolini invites readers to experience a selection of exemplary Cathedrals from around the world, with beautiful images and poetic texts that warm the soul. He offers glimpses into the spiritual, visionary, and artistic beauty and mastery of these spaces, inspired by God and built by human hands. Read the powerful stories connected to these sacred spaces: like the reconciliation crusade of Vezelay, the destruction of Cluny, and the origins of Sagrada Familia. Explore the architectural and artistic elements that make these churches what they are: like the power of light, the "smiling stones," the crypt, the music, and more. With A Home for the Soul, you may take your seat inside these churches and rest for a while, to experience and be inspired by the remarkable messages carried by some of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
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Ancient City Walls in China: A Heritage Rediscovered
Ancient City Walls in China: A Heritage Rediscovered: NA497.C6 Y36 2020
Author(s): Guoqing Yang, Markus Hattstein
Salenstein : Benteli 2020.
A resume of a historical architecture typology, a legacy with a once tremendous importance for the Middle Kingdom.
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Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral
Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral: NA5550.N7 B57 2019
Author(s): Kathy Borrus
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2019.
On April 16, 2019, the world looked on in horror as the Notre Dame Cathedral was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire. Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral offers a fascinating look back at nearly nine centuries of this landmark building that has stood as silent witness to some of the most important events in human history. On April 16, 2019, five days before the celebration of Easter, a blazing fire engulfed the world famous Notre-Dame de Paris. A marvel of Gothic architecture, construction on the Notre Dame Cathedral was begun in 1160 and completed in 1345. For almost nine centuries it has served as a house of worship and refuge; a stalwart soldier that has survived wars and revolutions, and hosted weddings, coronations, and funerals for kings and queens, presidents, and political dignitaries. The cathedral has also offered solace and sanctuary to tourists, locals, and one very famous fictional hunchback. It's this rich mixture of social history and human ingenuity that makes the Notre Dame, in the words of one art scholar, "one of the great monuments to the best of civilization." Wounded but still standing, the world now watches as France rebuilds. Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral will detail the impressive architecture of the building, the priceless artifacts it contains, and the major historical events that have taken place in its presence. It will also show, through film stills and artwork reproductions, the ways in which the Notre Dame has permeated our popular culture. Coupled with informative text for each image, Notre Dame is the definitive book on the history of this landmark building.
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University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design
University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design: NA6600 .C69 2018
Author(s): Jonathan Coulson, Paul Roberts, Isabelle Taylor
Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2018.
The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching, learning and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles, of sunny lawns, of wood-panelled libraries, it is a word viscerally charged with centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of cutting-edge science, vibrancy and energy. It is this dual nature, this concurrent adherence to tradition and innovation, which renders the physical environment of the university such a redolent, enduring and dynamic realm. However, it also means that the twenty-first-century campus is a highly challenging and exacting landscape to design and manage successfully. Today, the scale of the pressures and the rate of change facing higher education institutions are greater than ever. Squeezed public spending, growing societal expectations and the broadening education ambitions of developing nations are set against a backdrop of rapid technological progress and changing pedagogies. What are the repercussions for the physical realities of university planning and architecture? And how are university campuses adapting to contend with these pressures? University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design introduces the most significant, widespread and thought-provoking trends that are currently shaping the planning and architecture of higher education institutions across the world. Within this completely revised second edition, Part One identifies current patterns such as hub buildings, large-scale expansions, adaptive reuse and innovation buildings. Part Two profiles these through recent, well-illustrated, global case studies. The essential guide to current and future trends in campus design.
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LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture
LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture: NA6751 .K35 2019
Author(s): Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Chris L. Smith
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2019]
An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an architectural statement. The laboratory is a serious investment in architectural expression in an attempt to persuade us of the value of the science that goes on inside. In this lavishly illustrated book, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Chris L. Smith explore the architecture of modern life science laboratories, and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. Looking at the varied designs of eleven important laboratories in North America, Europe, and Australia, all built between 2005 and 2019, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith examine the relationship between the design of contemporary laboratory buildings and the ideas and ideologies of science. Observing that every laboratory architect and client declares the same three aspirations—to eliminate boundaries, to communicate the benefits of its research programs, and to foster collaboration—Kaji-O'Grady and Smith organize their account according to the themes of boundaries, expression, and socialization. For instance, they point to the South Australian Health and Medical Institute's translucent envelope as the material equivalent of institutional accountability; the insistent animal imagery of the NavarraBioMed laboratory in Spain; and the Hillside Research Campus's mimicry of the picturesque fishing village that once occupied its site. Through these and their other examples, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith show how the architecture of the laboratory shapes the science that takes place within it.
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Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image
Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image: NA680 .B533 2019
Author(s): Caitlin Blanchfield, Farzin Lotfi-Jam
New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City [2019]
Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narratives. It uses the imaging techniques of conservation and the documentary detritus of heritage preservation to show how scientific methods attempt to produce stable notions of history and value.
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Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for 20th-Century Icons
Reglazing Modernism: Intervention Strategies for 20th-Century Icons: NA680 .R44 2019
Basel : Birkhäuser c2019.
The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and post-war buildings are now suffering severe defects in the building fabric, which necessitate measures to preserve the buildings. In this endeavor, aspects of architectural design, building physics, and the preservation of historic buildings play a key role. The book documents 20 iconic buildings.
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Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream
Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream: NA712 .C355 2018
Author(s): Matthew Christopher
Great Britain : Carpet Bombing Culture 2018.
In "Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream," internationally acclaimed photographer Matthew Christopher continues his examination of the ruins dotting American cities as quiet catastrophes that have affected not only the nation's past but also its present and future.
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Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types
Unresolved Legibility in Residential Types: NA7205 .T44 2019
Author(s): Clark Thenhaus
[San Francisco] : Applied Research+Design Publishing [2019]
Architectural legibility requires both visual clarity of a building's appearance such that its formal, spatial, and material compositions can be comprehended, as well as a certain clarity of its social, cultural, and political histories. While the term legibility carries a connotation of conclusiveness or objective qualifications, legibility in architecture is most often inconclusive and unresolved. Such unresolved legibility is particularly visible in houses, which are the source of inquiry in this project. This book proposes new understandings and interpretations of American residential architecture by investigating and graphically illustrating the forms, spaces, and histories of ten residential types. Perhaps no genre of architecture has been written about more than 'the house'. As long-standing subjects of architectural discourse, cultural reflection, and experimentation, houses represent a confluence of architectural and broader cultural phenomena. The house is not only susceptible to, but in fact requires renewal and re-imagination; as an architectural type it reflects shifting societal values and the constant reconstruction of meaning that this shifting entails. Such social, cultural, political and contextual circumstances can best be evaluated under the rubric of legibility. While this might at first seem like an objective undertaking, legibility in architecture is indeterminate and unresolved, revealing the intertwining of architectural expressions with broader cultural circumstances.
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Cape May, Queen of the Seaside Resorts: Its History and Architecture
Cape May, Queen of the Seaside Resorts: Its History and Architecture: NA735.C32 T45 1998
Author(s): George E. Thomas, Carl Doebley, Chris Zelov
[United States] : Knossus Project Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts ©1998.
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Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes: NA737.K32 F544 2019
Author(s): Per Olaf Fjeld, Emily Randall Fjeld
Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press 2019.
Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes is a new and personal reading of the architecture, teachings, and legacy of Louis I. Kahn from Per Olaf Fjeld's perspective as a former student. The book explores Kahn's life and work, offering a unique take on one of the twentieth century's most important architects. Kahn's Nordic and European ties are emphasized in this study that also covers his early childhood in Estonia, his travels, and his relationships with other architects, including the Norwegian architect Arne Korsmo. The authors have gathered personal reflections, archival material, and other student work to offer insight into the wisdom that Kahn imparted to his students in his famous masterclass. Louis I. Kahn: The Nordic Latitudes addresses Kahn's legacy both personally and in terms of the profession, documents a research trip the University of Pennsylvania's Louis I. Kahn Collection, and confronts the affiliation of Kahn's work with postmodernism.
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Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2015-2019
Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2015-2019: NA737.S64 A4 2019
Author(s): Robert A. M. Stern
[New York] : Monacelli Press 2019.
This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of the most recent work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, arguably the most versatile of the "starchitects," is an essential reference for architecture offices and libraries and an exceptionally handsome volume that will appeal to architecture aficionados. Architect and architectural historian Robert A. M. Stern has garnered prestigious commissions across America and throughout the world, including, most recently, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, residential towers in Manhattan, Washington, and Hangzhou, China, and major campus projects for the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and Tsinghua University in Beijing. Deeply committed to the principle of building in context, Stern has no signature style. Instead his work speaks to the urban fabric that surrounds it, yielding a portfolio that is at once historically sensitive and responsive to contemporary life.
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Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific
Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific: NA7523 .C43 2019
Author(s): Charmaine Chan
New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc 2019.
An inspiring architecture and interior design survey of the most stunning courtyard houses of the Asia-Pacific region.
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The Private Gardens of SMI Landscape Architecture
The Private Gardens of SMI Landscape Architecture: SB470.S568 P75 2018
Author(s): Sánchez Jorge
London ; Merrell Publishers Limited 2018.
The garden design firm of SMI Landscape Architecture is known for its estate masterplanning, its public gardens and streetscapes, and its thoughtful private gardens for clients across the United States, particularly in Florida, and in the Bahamas. The firm's philosophy incorporates a "botanic garden" approach with exotic planting and elements of classical European design to create beautiful, usable spaces, and it is also known for its preservation and restoration of old landscapes. This book presents 15 new gardens, never before published in any book, that show the range of the firm's work. Each client has different requirements, and so each garden turns out differently - but each shows the firm's hallmarks of lush planting, luxurious garden "rooms," and immaculate hardscaping. As Jorge Sanchez puts it in the Preface, "This book shows how not one individual but many make a firm successful." For each garden, practical information about the design approach and details of the planting are combined with an account of the process, the firm's relationship with the client, and the reasons for the design decisions. Through the narrative--often personal, always descriptive, always detailed--a picture builds up of the approach to each set of circumstances. Many of the projects are in Palm Beach, where a boom in the building of new houses and their attached estates in the early twentieth century left a legacy of stunning--if sometimes neglected--homes and landscapes ripe for restoration. Local architects such as Addison Mizner and Maurice Fatio designed houses that are now being rejuvenated and sympathetically modernized to fit the requirements of twenty-first-century families, and firms such as SMI are at the forefront of the re-creation of their gardens. The Weisfisch Garden in Palm Beach, for example, was carefully restored and given the surroundings its architecture and its owners deserved, and the whole project was recognized with a prestigious award from the Palm Beach Preservation Foundation. The firm of SMI also works in temperate planting zones, and projects in more northerly states provide an opportunity to work with an entirely different palette of plants. For the Plumb Garden in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, for example, the firm was commissioned to remodel a small estate attached to an old pleasure house. The landscape here is much wilder and more temperate than in Florida, and the firm's job was to work with the natural flora and contours of the land while quietly intervening to personalize the areas nearest the house. Simple manipulations of form and slope along with water features and some much more intimate spaces have created a garden that fits impeccably into its wider context and yet is capable of being used and enjoyed by the family. Throughout the book there is a strong sense of participation--with the climate, with the local flora, with the clients, and with other designers, whether architects, artisans, or interior designers. To be part of such collaborative efforts is hugely satisfying for Sanchez and the members of his team, as well as producing the best possible result for each set of clients. This beautiful book will appeal to garden lovers everywhere, as well as to design aficionados seeking a deeper understanding of the creative process behind making a garden. It will also appeal to garden designers and horticultural students. Contents Preface Casa Bendita, Palm Beach, FL Fisher Garden, Palm Beach, FL Saratoga Springs, NY Mautner Garden Nason Garden, Coral Gables, FL Patterson Garden, Palm Beach, FL Vila Alberi, Palm Beach, FL Plumb Garden, Chadds Ford, PA Rakolta Garden, Palm Beach, FL La Salona, Palm Beach, FL El Lido, Palm Beach, FL Shiverick Garden, Palm Beach, FL Weisfisch Garden, Palm Beach, FL Winkelried Garden, Jupiter Island, FL Worth Avenue Garden, Palm Beach, FL
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Elements of visual design in the landscape
Elements of visual design in the landscape: SB472.45 .B45 2020
Author(s): Simon Bell
Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge 2020.
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The Garden Design Primer
The Garden Design Primer: SB473 .A735 1993
Author(s): Barbara Ashmun
New York : Lyons & Burford ©1993.
How to make a garden that looks good. A practical book, written with an appealing directness.-- Allen Lacy. Diagrams and color photographs.
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Best plants: 1000 easy-to-grow garden plants
Best plants: 1000 easy-to-grow garden plants: SB473 .D273 2006
Author(s): Lydia Darbyshire
London : Hamlyn 2006.
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Planning your garden: the complete guide to designing and planting a beautiful garden
Planning your garden: the complete guide to designing and planting a beautiful garden: SB473 .M375 2003
Author(s): Peter McHoy
New York : Hermes House/Anness Pub 2003.
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35 Garden Blueprints: Beautiful Possibilities for Designing Your Garden
35 Garden Blueprints: Beautiful Possibilities for Designing Your Garden: SB473 .O86 1989
Author(s): Maggie Oster
New York : Simon and Schuster ©1989.
Provides garden designs by plant types and themes, including formal and informal, English, French, Japanese, herb, and climbing gardens
Other new Architecture books
- Klangräume : Architektur und Raumgestaltung : Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz : Opernhäuser, Tonstudios, Musicalbühnen, Konzertsäle, Ballhäuser, Theater, Clubs, Tanzlokale, Sakralbauten, Philharmonien, ... / : NA2800 .K53 2020
- Klosterbuch Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg : Klöster, Stifte und Konvente von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation / : NA5582.S35 K56 2019
- Sakralbauten : der Architektenfamilie Böhm / Lieb, Stefanie author.: NA5588.B64 L54 2019
- Architektur und Transzendenz : die Kirchenbauten Alexander Freiherr von Brancas im Bistum Eichstätt / Koch, Jakob Johannes author.: NA5588.B73 K63 2019
- The story of New York's Staircase : a Heatherwick Studio design. : NA9350.N5 S76 2019
- The small garden book / Brookes, John, 1933-2018.: SB473 .B732 1989
- The old-fashioned garden : four delightful pop-up plans / Lynch, Nancy author.: SB473 .L96 1987