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	Garden History Author: Tom Turner Publisher: Taylor & Francis Books Year: 2005
	Amazon Price: $41.30
ArchitectureWeek— This carefully structured overview makes the subject of garden history accessible. Highly illustrated to present and explain in a most appealing way the historic styles of gardens, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of garden design.
	Tools of the Imagination: Drawing Tools and Technologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Author: Susan Piedmont-Palladino, editor Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Year: 2006
	Amazon Price: $22.76
ArchitectureWeek— A survey of 250 years of design tools and technologies, revealing how architects have produced drawings, models, renderings, and, now, animations that show us the promise of what might be built. The book includes images of these tools as well as drawings made with them, by Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and I. M. Pei.
	Models: Architecture and the Miniature Author: Mark Morris Publisher: Wiley Academy Press Year: 2006
	Amazon Price: $58.50
ArchitectureWeek— The physical scale model is a centerpiece for design education, celebrated practices, and architecture’s public relations. This book outlines the historic role models have played from Alberti to the Bauhaus. It offers a cultural history of models, theories tied to specific examples, and explanations of the role of new technologies.
	Historic Preservation: An Introduction to its History, Principles, and Practice Author: Norman Tyler Publisher: W. W. Norton Year: 2000
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ArchitectureWeek— This book introduces the philosophy and history of preservation, the role of government, documentation procedures, and related planning, technology, and economic issues.
	Architecture in the Age of Printing : Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the Histor Author: Mario Carpo (Sarah Benson, Translator) Publisher: MIT Press Year: 2001
	Amazon Price: $28.88
ArchitectureWeek— A discussion of the communication media used by Western architects, from classical antiquity to modern classicism, showing how each medium related to specific forms of architectural thinking.
	Ideas That Shaped Buildings Author: Fil Hearn Publisher: MIT Press Year: 2003
	Amazon Price: $14.96
ArchitectureWeek— A synthesis of architectural history and theory based on historically influential treatises — arriving at a rationale for building design.
	A History of Western Architecture Author: David Watkin Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Year: 2005
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ArchitectureWeek— This highly acclaimed book, now in its fourth edition, has a unique approach to architectural history: the author explores structures not as separate, but as part of a living continuity through the ages. Beginning with the classical origins of Western architecture and coming up to the present day, the book discusses in detail major milestones in the development of Western architecture.
	Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History Author: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Year: 2001
	Amazon Price: $47.25
ArchitectureWeek— A history of human-formed landscapes from stone circles and ziggurats to today's suburbs and theme parks.
	Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation Author: John H. Stubbs Publisher: Wiley Year: 2009
	Amazon Price: $61.38
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