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Women and architecture

The Sex of Architecture
by Diana Agrest (Editor) Sexuality & Space
by Beatriz Colomina Discrimination by Design
by Leslie Kanes Weisman

Women and the Making of the Modern House : A Social and Architectural History
by Alice T. Friedman Andree Putman
by Sophie Tasma-Anargyros The Architect : Reconstructing Her Practice
by Francesca Hughes (Editor)

New Arrivals

Architectural Design For Tropical Regions
by Cleveland Salmon Tropical Asian Style
by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni et. al Color in Architecture :
Design Methods for Buildings, Interiors and Urban Spaces
by Harold Linton

Sverre Fehn : Works, Projects, Writings, 1949-1996 by Christian Norberg-Schulz, gen Postiglione, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesco Dal Co (Introduction) Alvaro Siza (Architecture & Design Series)
by Philip Jodidio Abraham Zabludovsky Architect 1979-1993
by Abraham Zabludovsky, Paul Heyer

1998 Carlsberg Prize Winner: Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor : Thinking Architecture,by Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor : Works by Peter Zumthor,by Helene Binet

Mies van der Rohe foundation
1st. Latin Amercan prize competition
Monographs on some first round selection winners

Mathias Klotz ,by Gastau Gili Galfetti (Editor)
Ten Houses : Enrique Browne, by Oscar Riera Ojeda (Editor)
Sanchez Elia, Peralta Ramos, Agostini Y Clorindo Testa
Ten Arquitectos : Enrique Norten, Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta (Work in Progress), by Richard Ingersoll
Oscar Niemeyer and the Architecture of Brazil, by David Underwood
Oscar Niemeyer (Coleccion Obras Y Proyectos) , by Josep M. Botey
Ricardo Legorreta, Architects , John V. Mutlow
Gonzalez de Leon; Architecture as Art, by Teodoro Gonzalez De Leon, Mario Antonio Arnaboldi
Mendes Da Rocha (Current Architecture Catalogues Series) ,by Josep Ma. Montaner

Architecture: Monographs:

Antoine Predock : Architectural Monographs, No 51
Eladio Dieste : Buildings and Projects; Juan Pablo Bonta
Barragan : The Complete Works , Luis Barragan, Antonio Toca Fernandez
Turner Brooks: Work, Turner Brooks et al
Sverre Fehn : Works, Projects, Writings, 1949-1996, Christian Norberg-Schulz
Patkau Architects: Selected Projects 1983-1993, Brian Carter
Kalach & Alvarez. Teodoro González Leon, Aaron Betsky
Lake Flato Architects. Oscar Riera Ojeda
Rebecca L. Binder. Stanley Tigerman
Alberto Campo Baeza. Kenneth Frampton

Architecture: buildings types:

The Tropical Asian House, Robert Powell
African Painted Houses : Basotho Dwellings of Southern Africa
Casa De Hacienda : Architecture in the Colombian. German Tellez, A. Castaneda
Fazendas : The Great Houses and Plantations of Brazil. Fernando Tasso Fragoso
Casas Lationamericanas / Latin American Houses, E. Browne, A. Petrina, H.Segawa et al.
Lacroze Miguens Prati (The Ten Houses Series). Oscar Riera Ojeda

Essay, theory and research:

Managing the Sense of a Region ,Kevin Lynch
Architecture : Meaning and Place : Selected Essays , Christian Norberg-Schulz
House Form and Culture, Amos Rapoport
Body, Memory and Architecture . Kent C. Bloomer, Charles W. Moore
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa, Colin Rowe
Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge, Alberto Perez Gomez
Architecture and Disjunction ,Bernard Tschumi
Architecture : Choice or Fate. Leon Krier
Between Fences. Gregory K. Dreicer
What Time Is This Place?, Kevin Lynch

History:

Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands, Edward E. Crain
Caribbean Baroque : Historic Architecture of the Spanish Antilles , Pamela Gosner
Caribbean Georgian : The Great Houses and Small of the Caribbean, Pamela Gosner
The Four Books on Architecture, Andrea Palladio
The American Vignola
L'Architecture , Claude Nicolas Ledoux
K.F. Schinkel, Collected Architectural Designs , Karl Frederick Schinkel

Landscape Architecture:

The Poetics of Gardens, Charles Moore
Tropica : Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees from the Tropics and Subtropics, Alfred Byrd Graf
Designing the New Landscape, Sutherland Lyall, Geoffrey Jellicoe
The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx; Sima Eliovson, Roberto Burle Marx
Design With Nature, Ian L. McHarg
Peter Walker Minimalist Gardens. Leah Levy
Martha Schwartz: Transfiguration of the Commonplace. Heidi Landecker

Regional:

Cuba : 400 Years of Architectural Heritage, Rachel Carley, Andrea Brizzi
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico. Edward R. Burian (Editor)
Mexico 90's: A Contemporary Architecture. Miquel Adria, H. Ricalde,R. Ingersoll
Havana : Portrait of a City. Juliet Barclay
Caribbean Style, Suzanne Slesin, S. Cliff, J. Berthelot, M. Gaumé, D. Rozensztroch
Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands, Edward E. Crain

Urban:

The life and death of the great American cities, Jane Jacobs
The Architecture of the City Aldo Rossi
America's First City : St. Augustine's Historic Neighborhoods by Karen G. Harvey
American Vitruvius : An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art,Werner Hegemann, E. Peets
Collage City, Colin Rowe, Fred Koeter
The City in History : Its Origins, Its Tranformations, and Its Prospects , Lewis
Cities Back from the Edge : New Life for Downtown; Roberta Brandes Gratz
Towns and Townmaking Principles, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Alex Krieger, will Lennertz
Design of Cities, Edmund Bacon

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Architectural Design For Tropical Regions by Cleveland Salmon	Tropical Asian Style by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni et. al	Color in Architecture : Design Methods for Buildings, Interiors and Urban Spaces by Harold Linton

Sverre Fehn : Works, Projects, Writings, 1949-1996 by Christian Norberg-Schulz, gen Postiglione, Gennaro Postiglione, Francesco Dal Co (Introduction)	Alvaro Siza (Architecture & Design Series) by Philip Jodidio	Abraham Zabludovsky Architect 1979-1993 by Abraham Zabludovsky, Paul Heyer



	The Periferia online bookstore is operated in association with Amazon.com, the earth's biggest bookstore. By ordering books from this page, Amazon.com returns a portion of the proceeds to Periferia, helping us maintain this window on architecture and urban design in the Caribbean. How to buy: you can order any of the books featured in this page by clicking on the title or the cover. Those links, you will take you to Amazon.com's webpage for that book. On that page you can place your order through Amazon.com's secure system. Please remember that you must order the book from that page or Periferia will not receive a commission from Amazon.com. Also, if you don't see a title or a certain edition you are seeking in our pages, please let us know. We can probably add the book to our online store within a day.
	About Amazon.com: From The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and the Associated Press to PC Magazine and WebWeek, mainstream and industry press alike have helped to make the Amazon.com brand name one of the more well-known among Internet sites. Amazom.com provides excellent, secure, online ordering service and a wide range of shipping options to both U.S. and worldwide customers.