Art & Architecture Month | Nashville Public Library

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"Uses LEGO models to explore Neoclassical, Art Deco, Brutalist, Modernist, and other architectural styles. Each chapter includes a discussion of the architectural movement, photographs of famous real-life buildings, and a gallery of LEGO models, with step-by-step building instructions"--

2) frank lloyd wright the masterworks

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3) american houses of robert a m stern

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4) Pueblo architecture and modern adobes: the residential designs of William Lumpkins

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Traugott, Joseph

5) Wright sites: a guide to Frank Lloyd Wright public places

6) Architecture

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Stevenson, Neil

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Annotated guides

7) Architecture

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Gardner, Robert

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Yesterday's science today's technology

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"Yesterday's science, today's technology." Explains the science behind the technology that is used in architecture. Includes activities.

8) Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

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King, Ross

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The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it.
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of...

9) Architecture shapes

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Crosbie, Michael J

10) Architecture according to pigeons

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Tailfeather, Speck Lee

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The world's most beautiful buildings are described from a bird's eye view by Speck Lee Tailfeather, a pigeon who is also an aficionado of architecture.

11) The architecture of happiness

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De Botton, Alain

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The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent.

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12) Architecture of Middle Tennessee: the Historic American Buildings Survey

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First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the region's most important and most endangered buildings. Based primarily upon photographs, measured drawings, and historical and architectural information assembled by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service in 1970 and 1971, the book was conceived of as a record of buildings preservationists assumed would soon be lost....

13) Architecture of the Old South

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Lane, Mills

14) Nashville architecture: a guide to the city

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West, Carroll Van

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"Since the turn of the eighteenth century, social movements and technological advances have strongly impacted cosmopolitan identity in America. Nashville, in particular, has experienced one transformation after another as change continues to propel history forward. Settlement during the 1700s, war and Reconstruction during the 1800s, and increased immigration, New Deal programs, and the invention of the automobile during the 1900s--these and many...

15) Architecture: a visual history

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Glancey, Jonathan

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Architecture tells the story of the world's most incredible buildings, from the ancient world to the present day. Take a closer look at the beautiful details, principal elements, and decorative features of every architectural style, from China's Temple of Heaven and the Great Mosque of Damascus, to the Guggenheim museum and the London Olympic Velodrome. Architecture offers a truly worldwide look at historical and contemporary buildings, with breathtaking...

16) Architecture: a visual history

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Neal, James

17) Architecture: sculpture

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Sewing, Werner

18) Religious Architecture

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Verkaaik

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Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives develops an anthropological perspective on modern religious architecture, including mosques, churches and synagogues. Borrowing from a range of theoretical perspectives on space-making and material religion, this volume looks at how religious buildings take their place in opposition to the secular surroundings, how they, as evocations of the sublime, help believers to move beyond the boundaries...

19) Architecture animals

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Crosbie, Michael J

20) African-American Art

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Patton, Sharon F

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Oxford history of art