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The
Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
(2004) Phaidon Press |
The
Le Corbusier Guide
by Deborah Gans
(2000) Princeton Architectural Press |
World
Cities Berlin
by Alan Balfour
(Editor)
(1999) Academy Press |
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A
monstrously big, heavy book that very well may be the best
resource of its kind you will ever see...
(read more) |
Maps,
addresses, visitor information and black and white pictures
of all of your favorite Le Corbusier buildings, and a few
that you've probably never even heard of...
(read more) |
The
World Cities book series by Academy Press feature projects
completed, under construction and ones that were only proposed,
and Berlin certainly had its share of all three in the late
1990s...
(read more) |
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World
Cities New York
by Alan Balfour
(Editor)
(2001) Academy Press |
Architecture
+ Design NYC
by Marisa Bartolucci
(1999) The Understanding Business |
Architecture
+ Design LA
by Michael Webb
(1997) The Understanding Business |
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Imagine
how much different New York would have been if Michael Graves
(instead of Architectonica) built at Times Square or if
Moshe Safdie (instead of David Childs) built at Columbus
Circle...
(read more)
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If
you're headed to New York and don't feel like carrying the
bulky AIA Guide around, then this is exactly what you're
looking for...
(read more) |
Say
that you're in Silver Lake and you want to find a John Lautner
House or you're in Culver City looking for all those Eric
Owen Moss things, this book can help you all the way there
and back...
(read more) |
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Wright
Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places
by Arlene Sanderson
(2001) Princeton Architectural Press |
The
Palladio Guide
by Caroline Constant
(1993) Princeton Architectural Press |
Vienna
- New Architecture 1975-2005
by August Sarnitz
(2004) Springer-Verlag Wein |
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You
can not understand a Frank Lloyd Wright building from a
book, you need to actually go there and experience the space
for yourself...
(read more)
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A
guide to fifty eight Palladio buildings, it turns out that
all of those plans and black and white pictures of villas
you remember from school are real after all...
(read more)
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Despite
what you may think, Vienna is not just an old imperial city
with a few Hans Hollein buildings thrown in for good measure,
although he is well represented in this book...
(read more)
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Architectural
Guide Basel 1980-2000
by Lutz Windhofel
(2001) Birkhauser |
The
Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 250 Key Twentieth-Century
American Buildings
by Sydney Leblanc
(2000) W.W. Norton & Company |
London's
Contemporary Architecture: A Visitor's Guide
by Ken Allinson
(2003) Architectural Press |
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Hometown
of Herzog and de Meuron and not that far from all those
Vitra buildings, Basel is certainly a place you (probabaly)
want to go...
(read more)
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Subtitled
A Guide to 250 Key Twentieth-Century American Buildings,
this is a just what it says it is, a great planner for that
long delayed American road trip...
(read more)
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From
Peckham to the Docklands to the City, this is a comprehensive
guide of everything you could possibly want to see...
(read more)
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AIA
Guide to New York City
by Norval White
and Elliot Willensky
(2000) Three Rivers Press |
AIA
Guide to Chicago
by Alice Sinkevitch
(2004) Harvest Books |
AIA
Guide to Boston
by Susan Southworth
and Michael Southworth
(1992) Globe Pequot |
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With
new shiny buildings from star architects being proposed
all over Manhattan, this comprehensive guide tries to prove
that New York City has been interesting all along...
(read more)
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Chicago
is a city that actually appreciates modern architecture,
and this guide will help you find the city's best...
(read more) |
Boston
and Cambridge cover a wide range of American architecture,
from colonial to Le Corbusier...
(read more)
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AIA
Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C.
by Christopher Weeks
(1994) Johns Hopkins University Press |
A
Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto
by Marc Treib and
Ron Herman
(2004) Kodansha International |
Birkhauser
Architectural Guide Japan: 20th Century
by Francesco Montagnana
and David Kerr
(1997) Birkhauser |
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Did
you know that Luigi Moretti designed the Watergate Hotel,
or that there even was a Watergate Hotel...
(read more)
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Extraordinarily
influencial to Frank Lloyd Wright and modern architecture,
Japenese gardens are more than gardens, they are spatial
experiences not to be missed...
(read more)
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A
great resource of recent Japanese architecture, where all
the big names (Ando, Ito, Maki) are well represented...
(read more)
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Birkhauser
Architectural Guide France: 20th Century
by Bertrand Lemoine
(2000) Birkhauser |
Birkhauser
Architectural Guide Switzerland: 20th Century
by Mercedes Daguerre
(1998) Birkhauser |
Birkhauser
Architectural Guide Germany: 20th Century
by Winfried Nerdinger
(1996) Birkhauser |
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There
is a whole country of interesting architecture outside the
Paris city limits, although there's a lot to keep you busy
inside them as well...
(read more)
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If
you've always wanted to see a Peter Zumthor building, then
you probably should go to Switzerland- and read this book
first...
(read more)
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Germany
is a big country with a lot of cool buildings, this is a
guide that helps you sort out the interesting from the not
so interesting...
(read more) |
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 See
additional book selections (as well as pictures and information
about all of your favorite architects) at architects.ArBITAT.com...
(go to ArBITAT Architects)
Share
your thoughts about what you've read and what you think
at the ArBITAT Architecture and Design Discussion Boards...
(go to discussion
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