Search Results: Titles starting with A from Lauren Otis

Beautifully designed small paperback published in Lebanon. Photographs by Paddy S. Tchrakian and others. This copy is complete with no marks; yellowed covers, chipped bottom right corner of front cover and first few inside pages also scuffed at bottom right corner.

This treatise on vernacular architecture "introduces the reader to communal architecture-architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting within a community experience." 128 pages wih 156 b&w illustrations.
Book is in VG+ condition with only some tanning of the endpapers. Dust Jacket is VG with several small chips and tears on the front and rear, light tanning. See images for a better idea of condition.

Rather than regarding bridges as simply marvels of engineering, this pioneering book is "dedicated to the premise that bridges are architecture, and that bridges throughout history can be judged by the same esthetic standards that we apply to architecture." By Elizabeth Bauer Mock, a former curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art and Taliesin West Fellow. 128 pages with multiple B&W images.
Book is in very good condition, dust jacket fair. Binding is tight, light page tanning, price written in pencil on front end paper. DJ tanned with multiple chips, tears and rubbing, mostly along the edges, large crease in rear. See pictures for a better idea of condition. Email with any questions.

Rare, one-volume second edition of this comprehensive survey of Portuguese vernacular architecture first published in 1961. Text in Portuguese. 763 pages with b&w images and drawings throughout.
VG condition throughout. Front board corners are bumped, there is a crease in the title page, and light tanning along page edges. See images for a better idea of condition.
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