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Product Description: For more than twenty years, David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm, principals of 1100 Architect, have honed a distinctive architecture informed by proportion, materiality, light, and detail. The firm's designs do not adhere to any specific stylistic codes but do share an understated architectural signature: an elegance of proportion, an innovative yet direct use of materials, a meticulous execution...read more

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9781580931786 | Monacelli Pr, November 23, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: For more than twenty years, David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm, principals of 1100 Architect, have honed a distinctive architecture informed by proportion, materiality, light, and detail.

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Product Description: Indisputably the grande dame of modern design, Andrée Putman burst onto the scene twenty-five years ago with the graphic, black-and-white interiors of the Morgans Hotel in New York. Since then Putman has gone on to redefine design for a diverse group of prestigious clients, including Karl Lagerfeld, the French Ministry of Culture, and the interior of the supersonic Concorde...read more

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9780847832460 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 10, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Indisputably the grande dame of modern design, Andrée Putman burst onto the scene twenty-five years ago with the graphic, black-and-white interiors of the Morgans Hotel in New York.

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9781568982151 | Princeton Architectural Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $50.00

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9781568982182 | Princeton Architectural Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $29.95

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Examines the films of the 1920s and 1930s which depict Art Deco and modern architecture, explains which features were adopted for film sets, and describes nine types of film decor (view table of contents)

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9780940512269 | Hennessey & Ingalls, September 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
9780060961060 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the films of the 1920s and 1930s which depict Art Deco and modern architecture, explains which features were adopted for film sets, and describes nine types of film decor

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Product Description: From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) captured the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America. Potent expressions of national power, these and other Saarinen-designed structures—including the GM Technical Center, Dulles International Airport, and John Deere headquarters—helped create the international image of the United States in the decades following World War II...read more

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9780300122374 | Yale Univ Pr, May 31, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St.

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Product Description: From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) captured the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America...read more
By Donald Albrecht (editor), Mark Coir (contributor), Sandy Isenstadt (contributor), Reinhold Martin (contributor) and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (editor)

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9780300112825 | Yale Univ Pr, December 28, 2006, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: From the swooping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St.

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A companion to a major centenary exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York showcases the acclaimed glassmaker's most noteworthy and sophisticated creations from the 1930s to the 1960s, in a photographic collection of bowls, stemware, and engraved pieces complemented by vintage photography and archive ephemera. Original.

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9780810991187 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A companion to a major centenary exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York showcases the acclaimed glassmaker's most noteworthy and sophisticated creations from the 1930s to the 1960s, in a photographic collection of bowls, stemware, and engraved pieces complemented by vintage photography and archive ephemera.
9780070846616, titled "Study Notes for Technicians: Electrical and Electronic Principles" | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1982, cover price $7.00 | also contains Study Notes for Technicians: Electrical and Electronic Principles

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Published to accompany a major internationally travelling exhibition, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will explore this renowned architect's buildings and the philosophy that shapes them
By Donald Albrecht, Sarah Williams Goldhagen (contributor) and Moshe Safdie (contributor)

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9781785510281 | Scala Books, November 2, 2015, cover price $35.00
9781857595871 | Scala Books, September 16, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Published to accompany a major internationally travelling exhibition, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will explore this renowned architect's buildings and the philosophy that shapes them

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Product Description: During the late 1920s and 1930s, as photography was establishing a firmer monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho created a now-classic portrait of New York City as the quintessential modern metropolis...read more

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9781616890155 | Princeton Architectural Pr, April 20, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: During the late 1920s and 1930s, as photography was establishing a firmer monopoly on the visual documentation of the built landscape, architectural photographer Samuel H.

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Product Description: New Hotels for Global Nomads combines architecture, interior design, photography, film and works of art to show just how varied and dynamic international hotels can be today. With 200 arresting images, including plans and computer renderings, and an authoritative text, this is the best guide available to contemporary and future trends in hotel design...read more

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9781858941745 | Perseus Distribution Services, October 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: New Hotels for Global Nomads combines architecture, interior design, photography, film and works of art to show just how varied and dynamic international hotels can be today.

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By Donald Albrecht (editor)

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9781419702990 | Harry N Abrams Inc, November 1, 2012, cover price $65.00

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Product Description: An accessible mix of academic commentary and playful exploration featuring the architecturally innovative designs of the award-winning firm Fentress Architects.
By Donald Albrecht (contributor), Peter H. Christensen, Gillian Fuller (contributor) and Christoph Heinrich (illustrator)

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9781857597462 | Scala Books, August 16, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An accessible mix of academic commentary and playful exploration featuring the architecturally innovative designs of the award-winning firm Fentress Architects.

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Product Description: American work spaces have gone through remarkable and extensive changes since 1900, thanks to the forces of technology, real estate, and finance, as well as evolving ideas on office organization and management. Innovations as commonplace as air conditioning and fluorescent lighting have had a profound impact, as have more recent phenomena such as virtual offices and telecommuting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Donald Albrecht (editor), Chrysanthe B. Broikos (editor), Cyrysanthe B. Broikos (editor) and National Building Museum (other contributor)

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9781568982410 | Princeton Architectural Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: American work spaces have gone through remarkable and extensive changes since 1900, thanks to the forces of technology, real estate, and finance, as well as evolving ideas on office organization and management.

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Product Description: In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers. At the same time the city remained a collection of small towns made up of people going about their daily rounds...read more

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9781580932486 | 1 edition (Monacelli Pr, October 27, 2009), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers.

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Product Description: A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining contemporary dress, and giving visual form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers forged a still-influential modern aesthetic...read more
By Donald Albrecht (editor)

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9781580932110 | Monacelli Pr, September 9, 2008, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars.

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Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Hardcover:

9781580934312 | Monacelli Pr, April 21, 2015, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9780380018123, titled "Star Diaries" | Avon Books, December 1, 1977, cover price $1.75 | also contains Star Diaries | About this edition: Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.

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Product Description: The Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames gave shape to the look of America's twentieth century. They witnessed firsthand many of the momentous historical events of the 1900s - including the Depression and World War II - and in their lives and work they represented the era's defining social movements: the shift of the nation's attention from the East Coast to the West Coast, the rise of corporate and industrial America, the global expansion of American culture...read more

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9780810917996 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $49.50

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9780810992320 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames gave shape to the look of America's twentieth century.
9780810927520 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: The Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames gave shape to the look of America's twentieth century.

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