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Eco Living Japan: Sustainable Ideas for Living Green by Deanna MacDonald

by Seniye Groff | Jul 8, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Home & Garden

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Eco Living Japan will enthrall the architecture and sustainability enthusiast. Prepare to be...
Poor Richard, Another Almanac for Architects and Planners (Volume 2) by Mark David Major

Poor Richard, Another Almanac for Architects and Planners (Volume 2) by Mark David Major

by George Erdosh | Apr 20, 2015 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: CreateSpace Formats: Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Amazon | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble | iBooks[/alert] Here is a strange paperback that some readers will love and others won’t read past page three. Poor...

Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity

by Site Owner | Jul 31, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs

By Jeffrey M. Chusid W.W. Norton Company, $55.00, 256 pages Highly Technical Work about the Freeman House Frank Lloyd Wright is considered to be the best architect in American history. More people know of him, and his homes, than any other major American architect....

Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home

by Site Owner | Jul 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs

By Matthew Batt Mariner Books, $14.95, 256 pages Home ownership is a long cherished American dream, but in Sugarhouse, Matthew Batt illustrates what can happen when renters buy their first house with no idea what lies beneath the wall-to-wall shag carpeting or behind...

Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

by Site Owner | Jun 17, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs

by Justin Martin, Da Capo Press, $30.00, 496 pages He designed Central Park and was the creative force behind the Worlds Fair in Chicago. He put his stamp on the campus of Stanford University. Yet many people do not know his name. His name was Frederick Law Olmsted...

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