Product Description: More than a century after its inception, the skyscraper has finally come of age. Though it has long been lampooned as a venal and inhospitable guzzler of resources, a revolutionary new school of skyscraper design has refashioned the idiom with buildings that are sensitive to their environments, benevolent to their occupants, and economically viable to build and maintain...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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)

Product Description: This text takes the reader on a tour of five and ten cent stores, from the early years in the 1920s through the 20th century, and the changing streetscape of downtown America. It tells how these stores were designed for merchandizing, about the architects who designed them, and why they were works of civic art that contributed to the urban landscape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Looked over but often overlooked, fences have played an essential role in the American building tradition since colonial times. Thousands of types of fences have been created, and millions of miles constructed across the American landscape...read more

An overview of design with activities intended to increase awareness of and participation in the designed world. (view table of contents)