Search Results: Returned 15 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 15
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1994., Preservation Press Call No: 728 WEB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ever since Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, American architects have used their own houses as laboratories, testing new ideas and putting a fresh spin on the old. To select the best of our own era, Michael Webb traveled coast to coast, talking with 150 architects, and looking for houses and apartments that respond creatively to the challenge of site, context, and budget. He chose 41 recent examples, and six modern classics. Together they demonstrate how rich is the idea of "house".
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By Zaczek, Iain2002., Parragon Pub. Call No: 709.04 ZAC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book looks in detail at all aspects of the Art Deco movement, with commentary on 120 works.
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By Zaczek, Iain2002., Parragon Pub. Call No: 709.04 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book looks in detail at all aspects of the Art Deco movement, with commentary on 120 works.
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1993., Barnes & Noble Books Call No: 724.6 HAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The interiors and exteriors of some of Wright's most admired buildings, including over 100 photographs and many plans and drawings.
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1991., Crescent Books Call No: 724.6 COS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A panorama of Wright's long and varied career.
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1993., Brompton Books Corporation Call No: 724.6 SOM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With more than 180 photographs illustrating 60 selected buildings, this book is a tribute to the life and works of Wright.
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1997, Universe Publishing in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Call No: 720 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines twenty-five buildings by America's premier architect, from his early work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his Taliesins in the 1950s.
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1999, Gramercy Books Call No: 720.9 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Treasures of artSummary Note: This book discusses the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the most influential and important architect of the twentieth century.
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2000., DK Ink Call No: 720 .92 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs and text help profile the life and career of architect Frank O. Gehry.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: JUV028000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
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1977., Juvenile, Bobbs-Merrill Call No: 724.6 HOA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the founding of modern architecture through the lives and works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
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-- Memories of a Cuban boyhood2010., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
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c2008., White Star Publishers Call No: 720 .483 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a collection of the most modern skyscrapers in the world, including some of colossal size with increasingly bizarre and extraordinary forms, stunningly different from any kind of architecture that has gone before.
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[2016], Juvenile, Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: 725.23 OCo Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: What Is?Summary Note: "Discover the true story of the Twin Towers--how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers--also known as the World Trade Center--and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers--from their ambitious construction to their tragic end"--