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9781138937666 | Routledge, October 7, 2016, cover price $180.00
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9781138937680 | Reprint edition (Routledge, October 7, 2016), cover price $54.95
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9781409467847 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 31, 2014, cover price $114.95 | About this edition: The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown.
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9781844076000 | Routledge, October 2, 2013, cover price $68.25
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9780500342589 | Gardners Books, May 24, 2010, cover price $24.10 | About this edition: Vernacular architecture, by its very nature, is built from local materials that are readily to hand and is thus defined by the geology and ecology of the region and by local climatic conditions.
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9781845113056 | Tauris Academic Studies, October 2, 2007, cover price $120.00
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9780714842028 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, February 4, 2003, cover price $59.95
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9780714847931 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, May 1, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Erwin Blumenfeld - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.
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9780750666572 | Routledge, October 17, 2006, cover price $80.00
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9780195112948 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 6, 2000, cover price $55.00
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9780195305937 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 8, 2006, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: The Culture of Building describes how the built world, including the vast number of buildings that are the settings for people's everyday lives, is the product of building cultures--complex systems of people, relationships, building types, techniques, and habits in which design and building are anchored.
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9780415357951 | Taylor & Francis, March 20, 2006, cover price $68.95
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9780415357814 | Taylor & Francis, February 8, 2006, cover price $180.00
Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sitesâboth real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early phase and Hermann Muthesius via LeCorbusier's high modernism, to the contemporary movement of a "critical regionalism."
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9780804751544 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 2005, cover price $60.00
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9780804753432 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl.
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9780810956070 | Harry N Abrams Inc, November 17, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A tour of home design considers how a range of cultures created houses that reflected their ideals, values, and landscapes, in a volume of vernacular and ethnographic domestic architecture that features a forest treehouse, a Thai boathouse, a Siberian hut, and more.
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9781586852375 | 1 edition (Gibbs Smith, October 1, 2004), cover price $50.00
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9781885232083 | Rice Univ School of Architecture, September 30, 2004, cover price $29.95
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9780393731477 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2004, cover price $49.95
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9781586630492 | Metro Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $14.98 | About this edition: A final chapter celebrates the restoration and preservation of vintage firehouses, many of which have been transformed into fire department museums, offices, and even resturants and hotels.
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9780253337566 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $34.95
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9780253213952 | Indiana Univ Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $30.00
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9780812235470 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Levi-Strauss's latter-day thinking on houses and house societies offers an antikinship kinship theory that puts a new slant on time, family, and hierarchy.
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9780812217230 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $24.95
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9780936070117 | 2 sub edition (Shelter Pubns, May 1, 2000), cover price $28.95
9780679769484 | Shelter Pubns, January 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Illustrates and describes simple dwellings, and contains suggestions on constructing homes with natural materials
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9781603580076 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, April 15, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Through enthralling pen-and-ink sketches John Taylor depicts and explains more than 600 elegantly simple and practical structures created by centuries of anonymous builders.
9781890132026 | Reprint edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, July 1, 1997), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This book reminds us that most of what we need to know is simply what we've already forgotten.
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9781857540543 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In this book, Roger Scruton looks at the work of 19th- and 20th-century architects and appraises their achievement and the values that inform it in relation to those of us who live in, or alongside, their structures.
9780312125011 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In this book, Roger Scruton looks at the work of 19th- and 20th-century architects and appraises their achievement and the values that inform it in relation to those of us who live in, or alongside, their structures.
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9780566071768 | Gower Pub Co, June 1, 1990, cover price $99.95
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9780292715547 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $40.00
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9780292715554 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $27.50
Examines the efficient use of building materials, the responsiveness of architecture to basic human needs, and the relationship between a building and its environment
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9780393303308 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Examines the efficient use of building materials, the responsiveness of architecture to basic human needs, and the relationship between a building and its environment
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9780829009866 | Irvington Pub, October 1, 1982, cover price $62.50
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