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$30.00
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The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture


STANG, ALANNA & HAWTHORNE, CHRISTOPHER

Square super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Princeton Architectural Press 2005

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings environment sustainability environment

$50.00
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Maori Art and Design: A Guide to Classic Weaving, Painting, Carving and Architecture


PAAMA-PENGELLY, JULIE

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 160pp, illus/photos, VG (minimal library markings, adhesive mylar covering to covers with light chafing & soiling, moderate tanning to spine & covers, light soiling & tanning to page edges- internally v tidy)

PUBLISHER: New Holland Publishers 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa Maori art design crafts weaving painting carving architecture history culture

$40.00
2a18g/40

Down to Earth: Adobe Architecture: An Old Idea, A New Future


DETHIER, JEAN & EATON, RUTH (Trans)

Imperial octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing to extrems, binding sl loose, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims, light to moderate cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & creasing to covers with moderate tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Facts on File 1983

KEYWORDS: ancient history unbaked earth architecture Adobe buildings

$25.00
xxpdb182245

Soil-Cement: Its Use in Building


N/A [UNITED NATIONS]

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: United Nations 1964

KEYWORDS: building construction architecture cement soil soil-cement concrete united nations

$25.00
xxpdb182247

Modern New Zealand #2


MCKAY, BILL & LLOYD-JENKINS, DOUGLAS (ed.'s) ET AL.

Quarto stapled wrappers (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: July 1995

KEYWORDS: quarterly journal design art new zealand architecture modern

$35.00
xxpdc182254

I Built Myself A House


GARVY, HELEN & FREEMAN, SUSAN (illus.)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Shire Press 1975

KEYWORDS: country cabin post and beam construction building architecture guide

$16.50
xxpdd182261

Small-Scale Manufacture of Burned Brick Building


THOMAS, D. W.

Octavo stapled wrappers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: VITA Inc. 1977

KEYWORDS: burned brick building architecture construction firing laying

$75.00
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Living on Water: Contemporary Houses Framed by Water


N/A

Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 271pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards)

PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press 2018

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings residential homes water sea ocean views collection anthology

$45.00
2a18i/8

Earth Construction: A Comprehensive Guide


HOUBEN, HUGO & GUILLAUD, HUBERT

Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 362pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Intermediate Technology Publications 1994

KEYWORDS: architecture building materials earth buildings ancient history construction

$40.00
2a18j/21

CCCP Underground: Metro Stations of the Soviet Era


HERFORT, FRANK

Oblong super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 255pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Benteli 2022

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian soviet undergrounds transport architecture design building metro stations history

$40.00
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Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings


McCLOY, NICOLA & KING, JANE (Photo)

Square super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 299pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine cocked, light creasing & scuffing to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House 2021

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa buildings historic architecture history biographies

$100.00
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The Sense of Unity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture


ARDALAN, NADER & BAKHTIAR, LALEH

Square quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xviii + 151pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & soilingto board edges & extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards with some light foxing also, moderate wrinkling to some rear pages) in d/w, scruffy (v heavy creasing & chipping with loss to spine & edges, major reinforcement work to internal sides with stiff lamination to whole jacket for preservation)

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1973

KEYWORDS: architecture history Persia Persian ancient antiquity sufi tradition

$50.00
2a18l/12

The Monocle Book of Homes: A Guide to Inspiring Residences


BRULE, TYLER (Fore)

Lg quarto, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 261pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Monocle / Thames & Hudson 2021

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings interior design homes monocle

$25.00
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Frank Gehry


STUNGO, NAOMI

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Carlton Books 2000

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings Frank Gehry design

$22.50
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The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs


BIERBRIER, MORRIS

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: British Museum Publications 1982

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity Egypt Egyptian mummies tombs builders architecture pharaohs

$40.00
2a18n/17

Hereford Cathedral: A History


AYLMER, GERALD & TILLER, JOHN (Eds)

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xxxii + 672pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards & page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: The Hambledon Press 2000

KEYWORDS: English England British Britain cathedrals architecture buildings history Hereford cathedral

$40.00
2a18n/19

Fair Horizon: Buildings of Today


HILL, OLIVER

Imperial octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 127pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading & soiling to board edges, spine sl cocked, light tanning, foxing & soiling to page edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to eps, sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping with some loss, moderate to heavy scuffing to spine, stained tape repairs to top edges, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1950

KEYWORDS: buildings architecture contemporary Oliver Hill

$85.00
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Harry Turbott: New Zealand's First Landscape Architect


FALCONER, GARTH

Imperial octavo, yellow heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 223pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising to spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Blue Acres Publishing 2020

KEYWORDS: New Zealand architects architecture Harry Turbott landscape buildings nature biographies

$60.00
2a18n/29

The Christchurch Town Hall 1965-2019: A Dream Renewed


LOCHHEAD, IAN (Ed)

Square imperial octavo, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to front board, 248pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to front eps, light soiling to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2019

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Christchurch town hall buildings history earthquake damage architecture

$45.00
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The Wright Space: Pattern and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses


HILDEBRAND, GRANT

Oblong quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, 192pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges, sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 1992

KEYWORDS: architecture buildings Frank Lloyd Wright art design

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