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The following 16 books have been published in the last 60 days, including what's coming up in the weeks ahead:
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Theater of Architecture, by Hugh Hardy
ISBN 9781616891312, hardcover binding, $50.00 (04/07/2013) Architect Hugh Hardy is the quintessential New Yorker. His irrepressible love of the city animates all of his work, which can be found in many ... 
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Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes, and Curios from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History , by William L. Bird, Jr.
ISBN 9781616891350, hardcover binding, $24.95 (04/17/2013) Buried within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exists an astonishing group of historical relics from the pre-Revolutionary War era ... 
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New Public Works: Architecture, Planning, and Politics, by Mark Robbins
Series: New City Books (Syracuse) ISBN 9781616891152, $29.95 (04/17/2013) Between 1999 and 2002 the National Endowment for the Arts's New Public Works program sponsored design competitions in cities across the United States. The forward-thinking ... 
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Landprints: The Landscape Designs of Bernard Trainor, by Susan Heeger
ISBN 9781616891305, hardcover binding, $50.00 (04/17/2013) Australian-born landscape designer Bernard Trainor has made it his life's work to capture the wild soul of his adopted home of Northern California. Neither a ... 
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More Scenes from the Rural Life, by Verlyn Klinkenborg
ISBN 9781616891565, hardcover binding, $24.95 (04/17/2013) Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. Since 1997, he has written ... 
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The Designer Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom, by Sara Bader
ISBN 9781616891343, hardcover binding, $14.95 (04/17/2013) Whether musing about the creative process, the merits of failure and criticism, or the challenges of keeping the studio lights on, designers make good, and ... 
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The Greenest Home: Superinsulated and Passive House Design, by Julie Torres Moskovitz
ISBN 9781616891244, hardcover binding, $45.00 (05/15/2013) Passive is the new green. Passive Houses, well–insulated, virtually airtight buildings, can decrease home heating consumption by an astounding ninety percent, making them not only ... 
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Art Parks: A Tour of America's Sculpture Parks and Gardens, by Francesca Cigola
ISBN 9781616891299, flexibind binding, $35.00 (05/15/2013) Whether located in the heart of a metropolis such as Chicago or on sprawling fields in the countryside, sculpture parks and gardens have become increasingly ... 
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Modern American Housing: High-Rise, Reuse, Infill, by Peggy Tully
Series: New City Books (Syracuse) ISBN 9781616891091, hardcover binding, $29.95 (05/15/2013) Modern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments ... 
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Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls, by Luis Callejas
Series: Pamphlet Architecture ISBN 9781616891428, paperback binding, $19.95 (05/15/2013) The competition for Pamphlet Architecture 33 asked previous authors in the series to nominate the architects and theorists whose work represents the most exciting design ... 
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Houses of Maine: Elliott + Elliott Architecture, by Matthew Elliott, Elizabeth Elliott
ISBN 9781616891220, hardcover binding, $40.00 (05/21/2013) "There have been many influences for us over the years but the defining factor in our firm's work is that we practice architecture in Maine, ... 
12.
We Sit Together: Utopian Benches from the Shakers to the Separatists of Zoar, by Francis Cape
ISBN 9781616891596, paperback binding, $24.95 (06/17/2013) Whether for protest, religious congress, companionship, eating, or comfort, sitting communally remains one of the most powerful and prevalent of human social activities. This simple ...
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Buckminster Fuller: World Man, by Daniel López-Pérez
Series: Kassler Lecture Series ISBN 91781616890940, paperback binding, $21.95 (07/07/2013) Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was one of the most innovative and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known as the inventor of the geodesic dome, ... 
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American City X: Syracuse After the Master Plan, by Mark Robbins
Series: New City Books (Syracuse) ISBN 9781616891060, hardcover binding, $29.95 (07/17/2013) In American City X, editor Mark Robbins, former dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, argues that innovative and compelling architecture can not only enhance ... 
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Prospect Park: Olmsted & Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece, by David P. Colley
ISBN 9781616891183, hardcover binding, $45.00 (07/19/2013) Right in the heart of one of the nation's most densely populated urban areas sits an idyllic realm of graceful meadows, dense woods, placid lakes, ... 
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Local Architecture: Building Place, Craft, and Community, by Brian MacKay-Lyons, Robert McCarter
ISBN 9781616891282, hardcover binding, $50.00 (09/18/2013) In architecture, as in food, local is an idea whose time has come. Of course, the idea of an architecture that responds to site; draws ... |
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