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24953. Andrews, Wayne. Architecture, Ambition and Americans. A Social History of American Architecture. NY: Free Press, 1969, 4th printing, 319pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good used copy, but slight crease to front cover at top, $7.5
Black and white illustrations and photos throughout.


19139. Baumgart, Wolfgang, et al. Park und Garten im 18. Jahrhundert: Colloquium der Arbeitsstelle 18. Jahrhundert, Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Würzburg und Veitshöchheim, 26.-29. September 1976. Heidelberg: Winter, 1978, 192, 24pp.: ill. 25 cm, very good large sewn paper wraps, with separate dust-jacket, a few minor pencil notations in margins, previous owner's name, $45
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Literatur und Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts, Bd. 2. Essays on garden history and design by: Rudolf Sühnel, Horst Meyer, Nicholas Phillipson, Christopher Thacker, Alfred Hfffmann, Irene Markowitz, H. W. M. van der Wyck, Wolfgang Adam, Wolfgang Baumgart, Wolfgang Schepers, Renate Schusky, Sieghild Bogumil, Dominik von König, Monika Lengelsen, Claudia Brosé, Heinke Wunderlich, Thomas Koebner.


23675. Behne, Adolf, 1885-1948. The modern functional building. Introduction by Rosemarie Haag Bletter, translation by Michael Robinson. Santa Monica, CA : Getty Research Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1996, 273pp., very good large sewn paperback, $19
Translation of: Moderne Zweckbau: München : Drei Masken Verlag, 1926. With a substantial 83pp introduction to the English translation.


4097. Belcher, John. Essentials in Architecture. An Analysis of the Principles and Qualities to be looked for in Buildings. London: Batsford, 1907, 171pp., good red cloth, slight wear, top of spine bruised, $19
Nicely illustrated book by a past president of the Royal Institute of British architects. Chapters, with many illustrations, on concepts such as Beauty, Proportion, and use of different materials. Contents. Introduction Principles Truth Beauty Qualities - Strength Vitality Restraint Refinement Repose Grace Breadth Scale . Factors Proportion Light And Shade Colour Solids And Voids Balance And Symmetry Materials Stone Wood Metals Brick, Terra Cotta, Cement Index. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. - Groombridge Place, Kent Old Newgate Prison - Imitation Elizabethan Hall - Palazzo Quaratesi, Florence - Porch of S. Maria delle Grazie, Arezzo - Monument of Mastino II., Verona - A High Building, New York - The " Fuller" Building, New York - A Modern Shop - Chiesa della Salute, Venice - The Statue of Pallas, the Loggetta, Venice .- The Pyramids - The Riccardi Palace, Florence - The " Debtors' Door," Old Newgate- Bernini's Colonnade, Rome - The Nave, Winchester Cathedral - Le Palais de Justice, Rouen - Milan Cathedral - The Tabernacle, St Lawrence, Nuremberg - The Town Hall, Seville - Palazzo Bargellini, Bologna - The Basilica, Vicenza - Temple of Neptune, Paestum - Gran Guardia Vecchia, Verona - Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence - Palazzo Municipale, Brescia - Doorway, Raynham Hall, Norfolk - An Entrance Doorway, Drayton House - Hutton-in-the-Forest, Westmorland - The Houses of Parliament - The Doge's Palace, Venice - Palazzo Albergati, Bologna - Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza - Chateau de Fontaine Henri - The Casa del Diavolo, Vicenza - The Delphic Sibyl in the Sistine Chapel, Rome - St Peter's, Rome - House at Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge - Palazzo Pesaro, Venice ' - Palazzo Spada, Rome - Crowhurst Place, Surrey - House at Clare, Suffolk - Wakehurst Place, Sussex - Ham House, Surrey - Cark Hall, Westmorland - Palazzo da Schio, Vicenza - Palazzo Mascarello, Vicenza - Gwydyr House, Whitehall - no - A House in Soho Square - Tribunal House, Glastonbury - A Shop in the Haymarket - Melton Constable, Norfolk - Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire - A Modern Suburban House - A Cottage, Tonbridge - Somerset House - The Louvre, Paris - Greenwich Hospital - A Keystone at Hampton Court - Choir Stalls. Chiesa del Miracoli, Venice - The Choir Stalls, Lincoln Cathedral - Part of the Organ Gallery, Belton House, Grantham - Wrought-Iron Gates at Hampton Court - Cast-Iron Gates at the Royal Exchange - The Cast-Bronze Gates of the Loggetta, Venice - Wrought-Iron Gates, Devonshire House, Piccadilly - Wrought-Iron Gates, Great Ormond Street, - Bloomsbury - Cast-Iron Railing, St Paul's Cathedral - Fanlight, Mansfield Street - Honington Hall, Warwickshire - House at Hertford - The Gatehouse, East Barshnm, Norfolk - Terra-Cotta Frieze, East Barsham - The Certosa, Pavia - The Palazzo Podesta, Genoa.


7655. Benevolo, Leonardo. Storia dell'architettura moderna. Rome: Editori Laterza, 1975, 2d printing, 952pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, library bookplate and deaccession stamp, otherwise clean copy of heavily illustrated history of modern architecture, $35
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2516. Benevolo, Leonardo. Storia dell'architettura del Rinascimento. Bari: Laterza, 1968, 24 cm., 1414pp., two volumes, gray cloth, very good but spine titles fading; minor stain to edge of first few pages of volume one, $100
Massively illustrated history of Renaissance architecture.


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16892. Betthausen, Peter, et al. Georg Dehio: (1850 - 1932). 100 Jahre Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2000, 188pp., very good small red hardcover, $29
Includes bibliography of the Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Also: Bridget Cherry, "Nikolaus Pevsner und The Buildings of England.".


12470. Binding, Günther. Architektonische Formenlehre. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980, viii, 264pp., very good square woven cloth, $75
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7064. Bodenschatz, Harald. Der rote Kasten. Zu Bedeutung, Wirkung und Zukunft von Schinkels Bauakademie. Berlin: Transit Verlag, 1996, 111pp., green paper-covered boards, very good, $25
Transit publishes very pretty books with a nice balance of illustrations, contemporary history, and text. This history of the controversial Schinkel building - or rather the space it once occupied, is no exception.


8555. Boeckl, Matthias, hrsg. Visionäre und Vertriebene. Österreichische Spuren in der modernen amerikanischen Architektur. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 1995, 371pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, large and lavishly illustrated, fresh copy, $27
23 essays on the influence of Austrian refugee architects in the United States. Beautifully illustrated discover of a forgotten theme. Some of the architects and designers discussed: Joseph Urban, Paul Theodore Frankl, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutra, Friedrich Kiesler, Bernard Rudofsky, Anton Tedesko, Josef Frank, Felix Augenfeld, Victor Gruen, Rudi Baumfeld, Ernst Lichtblau, Liane Zimbler. Includes biographical reference section.


4672. Boston. Centennial of the Bulfinch State House. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1898, 74pp., illustrated with photos of the five speakers at the exercises, front endpaper marred, previous owner's inscription, very good green cloth, $24
Addresses by: Gov. Roger Wolcott, pp. 9-11; Alfred Seelye Roe, pp. 12-58, in addition to an appendix of the 1898 executive and legislative departments of the government.


22990. Bréhier, Louis, 1868-1951. La cathédrale de Reims; une oeuvre française. Ouvrage illustré de cinquante-six planches hors texte, une carte et Quatre plans dans le texte. Paris: Librairie Renouard, H. Laurend, Editeur, 1916, 277pp., very good large blue cloth, gold titles, previous owner's inscription: Mrs. C. W. Goodrich / From the Rev. George Berry, $45
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26611. Brown, Frank E., 1908-. Roman architecture. London, Prentice-Hall; New York, George Braziller, 1965, 2d printing, 125pp. 100 illus. 26 cm., sewn PAPERBACK, good used copy, cover a bit worn, $7.5
Great ages of world architecture.


2511. Conrad, Dietrich. Kirchenbau im Mittelalter: Bauplanung und Bauausführung. [Leipzig]: Edition Leipzig, 1997, Zweite Auflage, 350 p.: ill. (some col.); 21 cm., very good illustrated stiff paper wraps, slight wear, $30
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27251. Feuerstein, Günther. New directions in German architecture. Translated by Thomas E. Burton. New York, G. Braziller,1968, stated First Printing, 128 p. illus., plans. 25 cm., very good dust-jacket but with call number label, very good black half-cloth, but ex-library with stamps, call number, tape residue from jacket, text clean, binding solid, $7.5
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2832. Flierl, Bruno. Berlin baut um - wessen Stadt wird die Stadt?: Kritische Reflexionen 1990 - 1997. Berlin: Verl. für Bauwesen, 1998, 192pp., illustrated gray paper wraps, fresh copy, $19
Series: Architektur und Stadt.


2831. Flierl, Bruno. Berlin baut um - wessen Stadt wird die Stadt?: Kritische Reflexionen 1990 - 1997. Berlin: Verl. für Bauwesen, 1998, 192pp., illustrated gray paper wraps, fresh copy, very good, $27
Series: Architektur und Stadt.


8425. Freckmann, Karl. Die Hofkirche zu Dresden. Augsburg: Benno Filser, 1929, 21 photos, 31pp., very good white paper wraps with cover photo of the Church, foxing on endpapers, slight wear to upper edge and upper corner, $25
Deutsche Kunstführer, hrsg. v. Adolf Feulner, Band 42. The author was an engineer.and studies the church from an architectural standpoint.


7646. Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart. Behnisch & Partner Bauten 1952-1992. Hrsg. v. Johann-Karl Schmidt und Ursula Zeller. Stuttgart: Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, 1992, 184pp., very good large sewn paperback, 33cm, $40
Essays and illustrations of the work of Günter Behnisch (born 1922), modernist post-war German architect who has worked mostly in South Germany. Later works notable for metal and glass at crazy angles. Laid in: a letter from the architect's office to an MIT colleague on the possibility of bringing the exhibit to the US.


27748. Gatje, Robert F.. Marcel Breuer, a memoir. Foreword by I.M. Pei. New York : Monacelli Press, 2000, 320pp., large PAPERBACK, very good but rear cover slightly scuffed, $15
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21633. Gillet, Louis, 1876-1943. La cathédrale vivante. [Paris] Flammarion [1936], 7eme mille, 283pp. 19 cm, very good small sewn paper wraps, nicely INSCRIBED by Gillet to Rosamond Gifford. $45
"L'Histoire et les hommes".


25329. Glastonbury Abbey. A Guide to Glastonbury and its Abbey. A Short History of the Abbey Ruins and other Notable Buildings; together with Ground Plan. Bristol: Printed by T.O. Elworthy & Sons for the Abbey Bookstall, Glastonbury, no date, around 1965, 1965, 36pp., very good paper wraps, $19
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21297. Gregotti, Vittorio. New directions in Italian architecture. Translated by Giuseppina Salvadori. New York, G. Braziller [1968], stated First Printing, 128pp., very good sewn paper wraps, $12
Series: New directions in architecture.


15836. Guidebook. Das Strassburger Münster und seine astronomische Uhr. Neuer illustrierter Führer. Kolmar i. Els.: Alsatia-Verlag, 1940, no date, circa, 48pp., very good small stapled paper wraps, illustrated cover, illustrated throughout, $12
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4753. Hale, Katherine. Historic Houses of Canada. with drawings by Dorothy Stevens. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1952, 152pp., dust-jacket torn at spine, some foxing, very good hardcover, $12
Illustrated with drawings and photographs. A travel book of interest for its historical and architectural coments on French, British, and Scottish influences.


15814. Hatje, Gerd ed. / Pehnt, Wolfgang, introduction. Encyclopedia of modern architecture. 442 illustrations. NY: Harry Abrams, 1964, 336pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $25
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23864. Hayden, Dolores. Redesigning the American dream : the future of housing, work, and family life. New York : W.W. Norton, 1984, x, 270pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $12
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26660. Hays, K. Michael, ed. Thinking the present : recent American architecture. New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, 1990, 134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., PAPERBACK, very good with separate dust-jacket, slightly worn and chipped around edges, previous owner's name, $11
K. Michael Hays and Carol Burns, editors. Contributors include: Rafael Moneo, Peggy Deamer, Martin Filler, Alan Plattus, Herbert Muschamp, Hal Foster. Topics include Eisenman, Gehry, Venturi.


2522. Hecht, Konrad. Der St. Galler Klosterplan. Wiesbaden: VMA-Verlag, 1997, Lizenzausgabe, 362 p.: ill.; 24 cm., very good printed paper-covered boards, one corner lightly bumped, $35
First published by Thorbecke, 1983.


9357. Hierl, Rudolf. Erwin Gutkind, 1886-1968: Architektur als Stadtraumkunst. Vorwort von Julius Posener. Basel: Boston: Birkhauser, 1992, 214pp., very good illustrated oblong hardcover, $65
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23701. House Construction. Canadian wood-frame house construction. Ottawa : Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, no date, around 1967, 197pp., PAPERBACK, very good, worn around edges, $35
Illustrated throughout with designs, a serious handbook of construction techniques.


14179. Huettchen, Bruno. Krolls Etablissement. Eine unterhaltsame berlinische Studie. Berlin: H. Berthold AG. Schriftgießerei und Messinglinienfabrik, 1938, 30pp., very good paper-covered boards, spine label a bit chipped, some fading around edges, $45
A privately printed brief local history of the building known to history as the Kroll opera, where the Reichstag held sessions after the 1933 fire. The pages: An der Zeitenwende cover this period: "Nach dem Staatsakt in Potsdam wurde hier am 21. März 1933 der erste Reichstag im Dritten Reich mit einer flammenden Ansprache des Reichstagspräsidenten Göring eröffnet." After praising the new leadership, the author sadly observes that Kroll will soon disappear, making room for the new institutions of Berlin planned by Speer. He does not seem happy about this prospect.


23818. Huxtable, Ada Louise. Kicked a building lately?. New York : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1976, xvi, 304pp., very good dust-jacket, chipped around edges, very good black cloth, a bit faded around edges, nicely INSCRIBED by Ada Louise Huxtable, dated 1995. $45
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2551. Jedlicka, Gotthard. Die Matisse Kapelle in Vence: Rosenkranzkapelle der Dominikanerinnen. [Frankfurt/Main]: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1955, 1.- 5. Tausend, 95 p. illus., port. 24 cm., very good stiff paper wraps with attached gray dust-jacket, $30
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15941. Kier, Hiltrud / Krings, Ulrich, hrsg. Köln: Die Romanischen Kirchen in der Diskussion 1946/47 und 1985. Köln: J. P. Bachem, 1986, 1. Auflage, 552pp., like new illustrated hardcover, $30
Detailed reports on renovation and reconstruction from 1985 symposium, preceded by the 1948 volume Kirchen in Trümmern: Zwölf Vorträge zum Thema was wird aus den Kölner Kirchen, pp. 19-126. Series: Stadtspuren, Band 4. Essential material for architectural history, reconstruction, city-planning.


25331. Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, subject. Bateman's. Burwash, Sussex. A Property of the National Trust. Eastbourne, Sussex: Printed by Dunns the Printers, 1965, 16pp., very good small stapled wraps, $12
Illustrated with 5 photos. Story of Rudyard Kipling's home from 1902-1936.


25275. Klaber, Eugene Henry. Housing design. New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1954, 247pp., dust-jacket worn, torn, and chipped around edges, very good brown cloth, $65
Drawings, plans throughout, and a section of photos.


25615. Laß, Heiko, hrsg. Von der Burg zum Schloss : landesherrlicher und adeliger Profanbau in Thüringen im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Jena : Quartus-Verlag, 2001, 1. Auflage, 231pp., PAPERBACK, very good with separate illustrated dust-jacket, $35
Reihe Palmbaum Texte. Kulturgeschichte ; Bd. 10. Papers from a conference held in October 1999 at Schloss Beichlingen, organized by Marburger Burgen-Arbeitskreis. Illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams.


12733. Lethaby, W. R., 1857-1931. Form in civilization. Collected papers on art and labour. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1957, 2d ed, 196pp. illus. 20 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good small black cloth, $25
First published in 1922. Includes short essay from 1915 on Modern German Architecture. Others on city design, housing and furnishing, memorials of fallen soldiers, the need for beauty, Ruskin, arts and guilds, the preservation of ancient architecture.


25330. Lucas, Audrey. Smallhythe. Ellen Terry's House. Plaistow: The Curwen Press, for The National Trust, no date, around 1965, 1965, 7pp., very good stapled paper wraps, with 4 photographs and with visitor's handbill laid in, $12
Home of the actress Ellen Terry, 1847-1928, building dating to the 15th century.


25911. Magistrat, Halle an der Saale, hrsg. Die Pestalozzische Schule zu Halle an der Saale. Denkschrift. anläßlich der Übergabe des Neubaues am 7. Januar 1930. Halle a.S.: Selbstverlag des Magistrates; Druck: Karras & Koennecke, 1930, 64pp., large sewn paper wraps, covers in poor condition, badly torn at spine and corners, lower right corner of front cover clipped away, text clean, binding solid, $75
8 Essays celebrating the new Hilfsschule by Dr. Truschel, Dr. Schröder, Rektor Breitbarth, Dr. W. Schnell, Dr. Otto Schneider, Hildegard Borchers, Stadbaurat Jost, Gartenarchitekt Mengel. With several plans, diagrams and photographs, including six photos of the Figurenfries showing small figures working at various training jobs.


27175. Mallgrave, Harry Francis, ed. Otto Wagner : reflections on the raiment of modernity. Santa Monica, CA : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993, 423 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good large black cloth, $25
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25106. Millar, John Fitzhugh. The architects of the American Colonies; or, Vitruvius Americanus. With drawings rendered by Suzanne Carlson. [Barre, Mass.] Barre Publishers, 1968, 205pp., good but worn dust-jacket, chipped at top of spine, ex-library copy, good large white cloth, 14 inches tall, with stamps, pocket, bar code, front endpaper clipped, $19
Still a good solid presentable copy, text clean except for library marks.


23277. Mitchell, John Hanson. The wildest place on earth: Italian gardens and the invention of wilderness. Drawings by James A. Mitchell. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2001, later printing, xii, 194pp.: ill. 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $12
A Merloyd Lawrence book.


27795. Mitchell, William J., 1944-. Imagining MIT : designing a campus for the twenty-first century. Afterword by Charles M. Vest. Cambridge, Mass. ; Lonodon : MIT Press, 2007, ix, 142pp., very good dust-jacket, very good oblong gray cloth, $20
The American campus -- William Welles Bosworth: Taylorism and classicism -- Postwar pragmatism -- Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen: mid-century modernism -- Kevin Roche: Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center -- Steven Holl: Simmons Hall -- Frank Gehry: Stata Center -- Charles Correa: Brain And Cognitive Sciences Complex -- Fumihiko Maki: Media Laboratory -- Planning a campus in real time -- Charles M. Vest, afterword: transforming the MIT campus-a personal journey.


23992. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990. Sticks and stones, a study of American architecture & civilization. New York, Norton, 1924, 238pp., good but worn, faded green cloth, $14
White oak library.


27503. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990. From the Ground up. Observations on contemporary architecture, housing, highway building, and civic design. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1956, 243pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $5
Cover design by Ivan Chermayeff. Harvest Book, HB-13. Collection of his essays from the New Yorker.


21522. Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990. The brown decades. A study of the arts in America, 1865-1895. New York, Dover Publications [1955], 2d revised edition, 266pp. illus. 21 cm, very good sewn paperback, "residence hall" stamps, otherwise clean and well-preserved, $6
T200. The Brown Decades - The REnewal of the Landscape - Towards M odern ARchiteture - Images, Sacred and Profane.


3474. Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. Historical studies of church-building in the Middle ages, Venice, Siena, Florence. New York: Harper, 1902, vi, 331pp. 23 cm., very good red cloth, previous owner's name, $24
Of him Watkin writes: "friend and disciple of Ruskin and Carlyle, and an influence on Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner. He lamented the visits to German universities of young Americans and the obsession with Teutonic scholarship, but nonetheless insisted as early as 1874 on a working knowledge of German from those attending his Fine Arts classes." Includes sections on Venice and St. Mark's - Siena, and Our Lady of The Assumption. - The Story of The Duomo After 1260. - Florence, and St. Mary of The Flower. - The Church of Arnolfo - The Dome of Brunelleschi. - Documents Relating to The Duomo of Siena.


26920. Palladio, Andrea. Die vier Bücher zur Architektur. Nach der Ausgabe Venedig 1570 I Quattro Libri dell'Architetettura. Aus dem Italienischen übertragen und herausgegeben von Andreas Bayer und Ulrich Schütte. Zürich: Verlag für Architecktur Artemis, 1988, 3. Überarbeitete Auflage, 470pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $35
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Digitale Bibliothek 37. Pevsner, Nikolaus / Honour, Hugh / Fleming, John, hrsg. Lexikon der Weltarchitektur cd-rom. Digitale Bibliothek, volume 37. Berlin: DirectMedia, 2000, , cd-rom for pc or for mac (with free software download), text in German, $35
Digitale Bibliothek 37.Based on the updated 3d edition of 1992. Nearly 3000 entries and 3400 illustrations on architects, history of architecture, concepts. Text in German.


13429. Philippe, Joseph / Jans, René. Le Palais Curtius. Liège: Musée Curtius, 1969, 115pp., very good gray sewn paper wraps, with 37 b/w photographs of the palace and decorations, $55
Extrait de la Chronique Archéologique du Pays de Liège, LX (1969): 1-115. Only 150 copies printed.


24503. Pierson, William Harvey, 1911-. American buildings and their architects. Volume I. The colonial and neoclassical styles. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1970, later printing, 503pp., very good dust-jacket, very good large brown cloth, previous owner's name, $19
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2503. Prinz, Wolfram. Schloss Chambord und die Villa Rotonda in Vicenza: Studien zur Ikonologie. Berlin: Mann, 1980, 80 p., 63 p. of plates: ill., plans; 26 cm., very good green cloth, $50
Frankfurter Forschungen zur Kunst; Bd. 7.


23036. Roberts, Douglas. Stately Homes in Britain '78. London: Charles Letts, 1978, 127pp., very good sewn paperback, photos of homes throughout, previous owner's name, $20
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23278. Saphier, Michael. Office planning and design. New York, McGraw-Hill [1968], xiii, 193pp., very good dust-jacket, chipped at top of spine, very good black cloth, previous owner's stamp on foredge and endpapers: architecture firm Symmes, Maini, Mckee, $45
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27172. Schneider, Romana, hrsg. Le Bar du Paris Bar. Berlin. Architektur und Kunst. Tübingen : Wasmuth, 2001, 80pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good oblong, long previous owner's inscription, apparently from someone involved in the project, $20
Contributors: Romana Schneider, Reinald Nohal, Hermann Czech, Barbara Hoidn, Michel Würthle.


23193. Schwippert, Hans. Der Fortschritt und die Dinge. no publisher, place, 1955, 24pp., very good small orange paper wraps, INSCRIBED on endpaperfür Dr. Beckmann / Hans Schweippert and with laid in handwritten card with Christmas and New Year's greetings also signed by Schweippert, $250
Vortrag Essen 1955. Vortrag zur Eröffnung der Sammlung Industrieform Haus Hügel, Essen, Oktober 1955.


25327. Stoke Poges Church. The "country churchyard." Stoke Poges Church. Buckinghamshire: Printed by Luffs of Slough, no date, around 1948, 1948, 24pp., very good stapled paper wraps, $19
Architecture and history of the local Church, illustrated with photos.


25583. Stratton, Jim, 1938-. Pioneering in the urban wilderness. New York : Urizen Books, 1977, 208pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, minor pencil marks or notations on a few pages, illustrated throughout with photos, $15
Discusses lofts and recovery of old housing stock in warehouses in many American cities; good resource on marginal architecture, far from the gleaming towers: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Houston/Galveston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland (Maine) San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington D.C., New York.


25653. Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. Paul Bonatz zum Gedenken. Stuttgart: Druck: Offizin Chr Scheufele, no date (preface dated 1957), 1957, 84pp., very good green paper covered boards, nicely illustrated with drawings, sketches and photographs, $45
Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, Reden und Aufsätze, 23. Includes texts by Paul Schmitthenner, Wilhelm Bader, Wilhelm Simpfendörfer, Hans Volkart, H. Kemali Soylemezoglue, 16 full page photographs of bridges, highways, dams, monumental buildings, his own private house, the railroad station in Stuttgart, and the university library in Tübingen. Paul Bonatz 1877-1956. From 1943 to 1954 he was working in Ankara.


18611. Temko, Allan. No way to build a ballpark: and other irreverent essays on architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993, , PAPERBACK, very good with separate dust-jacket, $12
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21057. Tigerman, Stanley, ed. The Chicago tapes: transcript of the conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago, November 7 and 8, 1986. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1987, 215pp.: ill., ports. 23 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $12
Famous architects chat. Gehry, Eisenman, Koolhaas, Krier, others.


4121. Uhl, Johannes, hrsg. Kleine Häuser, große Häuser: Variationen von Einzelhäusern in der Reihe. Entwurfsseminar an der Universität Stuttgart, Wintersemester 1977/78. Berlin: Archibook-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1979, 2. Aufl., 127pp., illustrated paper wraps, very good, $25
Participants: Manfred Fischer, Jochen Hagenmüller, Geneviève Lauffenberg, Karin Bleyenberg, Roland Mössner, Joachim Hofmann.


4054. West, T. W.. A History of Architecture in England. NY: David McKay, 1966, 2d edition, 176pp., dust-jacket with a few chips, very good black cloth, $12
Interesting in its use of drawings to complement photos and text; one gets a very specific notion of each design feature rather than the usual vague adjectives of praise or disapproval. What is a broken pediment, how can an alcove be used, and what do these features look like in real buildings. An enjoyable cross between handbook and history.


27174. Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-. Three architects from the master class of Otto Wagner : Emil Hoppe, Marcel Kammerer, Otto Schönthal. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1989, 240pp., very good dust-jacket, very good large gray cloth, $28
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6425. Wimmer, Clemens Alexander. Geschichte der Gartentheorie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1989, 486pp., illustrated purple cloth, very good copy, $25
A biographical handbook in the form of an anthology: with biographical and bibliographical references and short readings from landscape designers from the ancients to the mid-20th century (texts all in German), followed by a 75pp. study.


8354. Zeller, Bernhard. Das Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach. Zur Eröffnung des Neubaus am 16. Mai 1973. Marbacher Schriften 5. Marbach: Das Deutsche Literaturarchiv, 1973, no year [1973], 75pp., very good white paper-covered boards, heavily illustrated with photos of the new building inside and out, $25
On the history and design of the archive and library.


22077. Zingman-Leith, Elan and Susan. The Secret Life of Victorian Houses. Authentic and Inspiring Interiors and What They Reveal. NY: Viking Studio, 2000, 144pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $9
Illustrated with color photos throughout, by Tim Fields.