 | Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses: Designs for Moderate Cost One-Family Homes by John Sergeant
Buy used from: $19.32 Wealth of detailed information by an admiring architect
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 | Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $29.97 The absolute snazziest coffee table book on FLW
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 | Ten Houses (Alfredo DeVido, Architects) by Michael J. Crosbie
Buy used from: $5.67 Tasteful contemporary houses
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 | Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture by Richard Weston
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $6.06 The usual suspects reviewed once again. Not technical.
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 | Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles by Virginia McAlester
Buy new: $43.87 / Used from: $15.65 Houses of 19th century tycoons Guggenheim, Goodyear, Vanderbilt, etc.
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 | American House Styles: A Concise Guide by John Milnes Baker
Buy used from: $1.83 Shows historical styles using a contemporary floor plan.
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 | House Styles in America: The Old-House Journal Guide to the Architecture of American Homes by James C. Massey
Buy used from: $6.34 Best book on the subject. Based on a series of articles in Old Home Journal.
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 | The Good Home: Interiors and Exteriors by Dennis Wedlick
Buy new: $26.60 / Used from: $4.25 Talented designer, contemporary charm.
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 | Graves Residence (Architecture in Detail) by Michael Graves
Buy used from: $29.99 Good description: plans, sections, etc, of this former warehouse he now inhabits.
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 | Le Corbusier: La Villa Savoye / The Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier Guides (englisch/französisch)) (French and English Edition) by Jacques Sbriglio
Buy used from: $15.37 Ultimate Modern home. Lots of pics not usually seen of this house.
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 | Albert Frey Houses 1 + 2 by Jennifer Golub
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $3.99 Minimal text and amatuerish photos.
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 | The Grammar of Architecture by et al., Emily Cole
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $3.43 Every engraving a work of art. Recommended as a complete history of architecture. At least up to the age of photography.
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 | House Design : Art and Practice by Alfredo De Vido
Buy used from: $5.01 Inside info on really nice houses, written by the architect for other architects.
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 | Tudor Style by Lee Goff
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $11.88 Nice coffee table book. All mansions.
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 | Storybook Style: America's Whimsical Homes of the Twenties by Arrol Gellner
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $16.28 Small trend knowledgeably explained. Quality pics too.
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 | The Gordon House: A Moving Experience by Larry A. Woodin
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $9.00 Slim brochure on the relocation of this house to save it from destruction.
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 | Modern House by John Welsh
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $8.48 Former editor speaks knowledgeably on recent Modern homes.
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 | The Early Architecture of Charleston by Albert Simons
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $15.00 Pre Civil War Georgian examples. Reprint of old book is almost exclusively photos, all B/W.
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 | Classical Architecture: An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms by James Stevens Curl
Buy new: $26.60 / Used from: $12.48 Exhaustive guide with 300 b/w dwgs. More than I wanted to know.
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 | Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice : 2002 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize by Glenn Murcutt
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $38.09 The architect discusses his own work; photos and plans OK but not the best.
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 | American Dream: The Houses at Sagaponac
Buy new: $33.85 / Used from: $11.20 For those with a couple million to spend. CAD proposals seem to be the norm nowadays.
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 | Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. ( Twentieth Edition )
Buy new: $128.19 / Used from: $125.00 Older editions available cheap. More a library reference than anything.
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 | Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture by David B. Brownlee
Buy new: $36.14 / Used from: $11.75 His life, as written by two authors. Mostly text with minimal pictures.
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 | Louis Kahn by Joseph Rykwert
Buy used from: $18.40 Short summaries of salient architectural features combined with several quality pics of each project.
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 | Western Architecture: From Ancient Greece to the Present (World of Art) by Ian Sutton
Buy new: $16.46 / Used from: $6.73 Simple yet comprehensive. Some skimming needed, but generally a fascinating tale.
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