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Books on American Architecture
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"Modern Architecture A-Z" [2007] by Peter Gossel Taschen 2-volume 15x12x4½ {19½ pounds!} slipcover edition [10/2007] for $189.00 |
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"The Architecture of Happiness" [2006] by Alain de Botton Pantheon 8x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.75 |
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"Little House On A Small Planet: Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats & Energy Efficient Possibilities" [2005] by Shay Salomon, photographs by Nigel Valdez Lyons Press 11x8½ pb [9/2006] for $13.57 official booksite Tumbleweed Tiny House Company of Sebastopol, CA The Small House Society [est. 2002] |
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"Spanish Revival Architecture" [2005] by S.F. 'Jerry' Cooke III & Tina Skinner Schiffer Publng 12x9½ hardcover [10/2005] for $35.00 |
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"The Abrams Guide To Period Styles For Interiors" [2005] by Judith Gura, edited by Richard Olsen, illustrations by David Perrelli Harry N. Abrams 8½x7 hardcover [10/2005] for $26.40 |
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"Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health & Money" [2005] by Joel S. Hirschhorn Sterling & Ross 9¼x6¼ pb [2/2005] for $17.13 author's booksite |
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"The Ranch House" [2005] by Alan Hess; photographs by Noah Sheldon Harry N. Abrams 10x12 hardcover [1/2005] for $29.70 |
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"The Abrams Guide To American House Styles" [2004] by William Morgan, edited by Richard Olsen, photography by Radek Kurzaj Harry N. Abrams pb [3/2008] for $13.57 
Harry N. Abrams 8¾x7 hardcover [11/2004] for $26.40 |
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"Brave New Houses: Adventures In Southern California Living" [2003] by Michael Webb Rizzoli 9x9 pb [11/2003] for $27.97 Rizzoli 9½x8½ hardcover [11/2003] for $38.50 |
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"An Architectural Guidebook To Los Angeles" [2003] by David Gebhard & Robert Winter Gibbs Smith Publr 8¼x6 pb [5th edition 9/2003] for $17.47 |
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"Pretty Vacant: The Los Angeles Dingbat Observed" [2003] by Clive Piercy The author spent 20 years photographing the facades of the common 'dingbat'-decorated stucco apartment houses of Los Angeles, and includes over 100 of the best. Chronicle Books 5x7¼ pb [8/2003] for $17.47 author's visual design company in Santa Monica |
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"Structures of Utility" [2003] by David Stark Wilson Heyday Books hardcover [5/2003] for $31.50 |
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"Iconic L.A.: Stories of L.A.'s Most Memorable Buildings" [2003] by Gloria Koenig L.A. Times Books 11¾x9¼ hardcover [4/2003] for $20.97 |
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"The Solar House: Passive Heating & Cooling" [2002] by Daniel D. Chiras Chelsea Green Publng 10x8 pb [10/2002] for $19.77 author's website |
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"California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture" [orig 1980, rev 2001] by Jim Heimann Chronicle Books 10x7½ pb [6/2001] for $19.95 |
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"Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture & Design of A Midcentury Oasis" [2001] by Alan Hess & Andrew Danish Chronicle Books 9½x11 hardcover [4/2001] for $27.20 |
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"Palm Springs Modern: Houses In The California Desert" [1999] by Adele Cygelman, photographs by David Glomb Rizzoli 11½x9.4 hardcover [9/99] for $34.00 |
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"Architecture: An Image For America" [1998] Edited by Pat Perrin Discovery Enterprises 7¾x5½ pb [9/98] for $7.95 |
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"Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For The 21st Century" [1996] by James Howard Kunstler Touchstone Press 8½x6½ pb [3/98] for $10.20 S&S 9¾x6¼ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
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"The Passive Solar House: The Complete Guide To Heating & Cooling Your Home" [orig 1980; rev 2006] by James Kachadorian Chelsea Green Publng 10x7¾ hardcover and CD-ROM [9/2006] for $26.40 |
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"The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise & Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape" [1993] by James Howard Kunstler Free Press 8½x5½ pb [7/94] for $11.20 S&S 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/93] out of print/used |
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"Spanish-Colonial Architecture In The United States" [1990] by Rexford Newcomb Dover 11x8¾ pb [4/90] for $11.53 |
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"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" [1972 classic] by Jane Jacobs "...perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning." — The New York Times (2002) Vintage 8x5¼ pb [12/92] for $10.17 Modern Library 7½x5 hardcover [2/93] for $13.57 Random House 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2002] out of print/used |
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"Design of Cities" [1967 classic, rev. 1976] by Edmund N. Bacon Penguin 11x8 pb [5/76] for $29.70 hardcover[various] out of print/used Ed Bacon Foundation [est. 2004] |
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"Toward An Architecture" [1923 classic] by Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965) the Getty edition of 2007 is newly translated by John Goodman, with a new Introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen Getty Publns 10x7 pb [10/2007] for $16.47 Getty Publns 10x7¼ hardcover [10/2007] for $46.80 book entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Seven Lamps of Architecture" [1849 classic] by John Ruskin [1819-1900] Dover 9¼x6½ pb [12/89] for $9.56 Peter Smith Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/91] for $28.99 |
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"The Ten Books On Architecture" [circa 15 B.C.E.] by Vitruvius [70? B.C.E. - 15? B.C.E.]; translation by Morris Hicky Morgan Though written during the Roman Empire, this text is still used in university classes to teach the rules of classic architecture. Dover Publns 8x5½ pb [6/60] for $10.36 IndyPublish 9x6 pb [5/2007] for $38.99 IndyPublish 9x6¼ hardcover [5/2007] for $45.99 book entry at Wikipedia |
Books on Architecture category at Amazon.com
browse Architects A to Z at Amazon.com
browse Historic Preservation category at Amazon.com
Universe Architecture Series at Amazon.com
Hennessey + Ingalls Bookstore (Santa Monica CA) architecture catalog
William Stout Architectural Books in San Francisco CA
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"The Prestel New York Architecture Game" [2004] by Thomas Fackler Prestel Publng board game [9/2004] for $29.95 |
Architecture Film Festival
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"My Architect: A Son's Journey" [docu feature 2003]
Written & directed by Nathaniel Kahn, about his father Louis I. Kahn [1901-74]; nominated for Best Documentary Oscar New Yorker Video color DVD [2/2005] for $22.46 New Yorker Video color VHS [2/2005] for $24.95 Commotion soundtrack CD [7/2004] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb • official filmsite {requires Flash} |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright" [PBS miniseries Nov 1998]
Co-produced & co-directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick; narration by Edward Herrmann; won Peabody Award PBS Home Video color DVD [8/2001] for $26.98 PBS Home Video color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes for $24.98 full credits from IMDb • PBS webpages Frank Lloyd Wright Page |
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"Antonio Gaudí" [indep 1984] Co-produced, directed & edited by Hiroshi Teshigahara Criterion Collection color DVD [3/2008] 2 disks for $34.99
full credits at IMDb Wikipedia entry on Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí [1852-1926] |
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"The Fountainhead" feature film [1949]
Idealistic young architect Howard Roark has a tough time because he will not compromise with the mediocre architecture of the establishment. When his 'big chance' skyscraper is redesigned without his knowledge, he dynamites the construction site and is put on trial. Directed by King Vidor [1894-1982]; script by Ayn Rand [1905-82], based on her novel; starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas & Henry Hull Warner b&w DVD [11/2006] for $17.49 Warner b&w VHS [1/90] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 |
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"The Fountainhead" novel [1943] by Ayn Rand [1905-82] Signet pb [8/96] for $8.99 Plume 60th Anniv 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/2002] for $27.97 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [6/2003] for $44.95 |
Case Study Houses [1945-66]
Case Study Houses entry at Wikipedia
Case Study Houses article at Arts & Architecture Magazine
1946 Case Study House #1 by J.R. Davidson, 540 S. Barrington Avenue in West Los Angeles, CA
unbuilt 1945 Case Study House #5 by Whitney R. Smith
1945 unbuilt Case Study House #6 by Richard Neutra
1949 Eames House [C.S.H #8] by Charles Eames, 203 Chautauqua Blvd. in Pacific Palisades, CA
1949 Entenza House [C.S.H. #9] by Charles Eames, 201 Chautauqua Blvd. in Pacific Palisades, CA
1945 unbuilt Case Study House #11 by J.R. Davidson
unbuilt 1945 Case Study House #12 by Whitney R. Smith
1946 unbuilt Case Study House #13 by Richard Neutra
1947 C.S.H. #15 by J.R. Davidson, 4755 Lasheart Drive in La Cañada, CA
{there were duplications in numbering C.H.S. projects 16-26, reason unclear}
1947 C.S.H. #16 by Rodney A. Walker, 9945 Beverly Grove Drive in Beverly Hills
1952 C.S.H. #16 by Craig Ellwood, 1811 Bel Air Road in West Los Angeles, CA
1947 C.S.H. #17 by Rodney A. Walker, 7861 Woodrow Wilson Drive in Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles), CA
1955 C.S.H. #17 by Craig Ellwood, 9554 Hidden Valley Road in Beverly Hills, CA
1948 C.S.H. #18 by Rodney A. Walker, 199 Chautauqua Blvd. in Pacific Palisades, CA
1957 C.S.H. #18 by Craig Ellwood, 1129 Miradero Road in Beverly Hills, CA
1948 Bailey House [C.S.H. #20] by Richard Neutra, 219 Chautauqua Blvd. in Pacific Palisades, CA
1947 unbuilt Case Study House #21 by Richard Neutra
1958 Bailey House [C.S.H. #21] by Pierre Koenig, 9036 Wonderland Park Avenue in Los Angeles, CA
1959 Stahl House [C.S.H. #22] by Pierre Koenig, 1635 Woods Drive in Los Angeles, CA
1960 Triad House [C.S.H. #25} by Killingsworth, Brady & Smith, Rue de Anne in La Jolla, CA
1963 Frank House [C.S.H. #25} by Killingsworth, Brady & Smith, 82 Rivo Alto Canal in Naples (Long Beach), CA
1963 Case Study House #26 by Killingsworth, Brady & Smith
Opdahl House in Naples (Long Beach), CA
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"Case Study Houses: The Complete C.S.H. Program, 1945-1966" [2002] by Elizabeth Smith Taschen 13x18 hardcover [2/2002] for $142.00 |
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"Case Study Houses: 1945-1962" [1962] by Esther McCoy
Hennessey + Ingalls 10x7¼ pb [6/77] for $18.15 Hennessey + Ingalls hardcover [6/77] out of print/used |
Googie Style Buildings
Googie entry at Wikipedia
Googie links at DMOZ/Open Directory Project
Googie pages at Space Age City
Googie Central at Roadside Peek
Googie architecture in Los Angeles County
Googie Architecture page at Anaheim Colony site
Googie Art fansite
Googie Fever fansite
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"Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture" [2004] by Alan Hess Chronicle Books 11x8½ pb [11/2004] for $18.21 |
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"Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture" [1986] by Alan Hess Chronicle Books 7½x10 pb [2/86] out of print/used |
Building with Natural Materials
The Log Homes Council [est. 1970] in Washington, DC
Log Homes Resources
Nader Khalili's CalEarth {California Institute of Earth Art & Architecture}
Green Home Building: info on sustainable & natural architecture
Log Home Connection of BC, Canada
The International Institute for Bau-biologie™ & Ecology, Inc. [est. 1987]
Canyon Country Log Homes [est. 2000] in Payson, AZ
Town & Country Cedar Homes [est. 1946] of Petoskey, MI
Reward Wall Systems - insulated concrete forms in Omaha, NE
U.S. Green Building Council
U.S. Green Building Council - New Mexico Chapter
American Clay Natural Earth Plaster in Albuquerque, NM
Ken Detjen of Belén, NM: lava bricks & Lava Living, Inc.
Adobe Builder of Bosque, NM
Enchanted Log Homes of Edgewood, NM
LanderLand natural building services in Hillsboro, NM
Air-Lock Log Homes [est. 1955] of Logan, NM
Two Bears Trading Post Log Homes of Ruidoso, NM
Santa Fe [NM] Adobe Design, LLC
Archaeo Architects [est. 1996] in Santa Fe, NM
Palo Santo Designs, LLC green architectural design in Santa Fe, NM
Living Green Magazine of Taos, NM
Worlds Nest sustainable building in Taos, NM
Mexican Style & Joe P. Carr Design {adobe} in Austin, TX
Whisper Creek Log Homes of Sandy, Utah
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"The Green House: New Directions In Sustainable Architecture" [2005] by Alanna Stang & Christopher Hawthorne Princeton Arch 9½x9 hardcover [5/2005] for $28.35 |
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"EcoNest: Creating Sustainable Sanctuaries of Clay, Straw & Timber" [2005] by Paula Baker-Laporte & Robert Laporte Gibbs Smith Publng 9¾x9¾ pb [9/2005] for $16.47 EcoNest Building Co. near Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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"The New Strawbale Home" [2003] by Catherine Wanek Gibbs Smith 11¼x9 hardcover [8/2003] for $26.37 |
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"Log Construction Manual: The Ultimate Guide To Building Handcrafted Log Homes" [2002] by Robert Wood Chambers Deep Stream Press pb [12/2002] for $25.05 |
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"Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans For Your Adobe Home" [2001] by Laura & Alex Sanchez Sunstone Press 11x8½ pb [10/2001] for $15.61 |
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"Casa Adobe" [2001] by Karen Witynski & Joe P. Carr
Gibbs Smith, Publr 10¾x8½ pb [8/2006] for $18.96 Gibbs Smith, Publr hardcover [9/2001] out of print/used "Adobe Details" [2002] by Karen Witynski & Joe P. Carr Gibbs Smith, Publr 8½x8½ hardcover [4/2002] for $14.93 authors's business in Austin, TX |
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"Earth Construction Handbook: The Building Material Earth In Modern Architecture" [2000] by Gernot Minke Computational Mechanics 11x8½ hardcover [7/2000] for $77.99 |
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"Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How To Build Your Own" [1991] by Nader Khalili Cal-Earth Press 11x8½ pb [9/96] for $16.47 Burning Gate Press 11¼x8½ pb [4/91] out of print/used |
"Mud, Space & Spirit: Handmade Adobes" [1976] by Virginia Gray
Capra Press pb [6/76] out of print/used
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"The Adobe Book" [1973] by John F. O'Connor Ancient City Press 11x8½ pb [6/73] out of print/used Ancient City Press hardcover [4/85] out of print/used |
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Craftsman, Mission & Prairie Architecture
The Arts & Crafts Society
Arts & Crafts Movement site
Furnishings Direct Craftsman-style furniture in Costa Mesa, CA
Prairie School info site
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page
Stickley Brothers on Architecture Page 2
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"Along Bungalow Lines: Creating An Arts & Crafts Style Home" [2006] by Paul Duchscherer, photography by Linda Svendsen Gibbs Smith, Publr 10¼x10¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $26.37 |
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"Craftsman Style" [2004] by Robert Winter & Alexander Vertikoff Harry N. Abrams 11½x9½ pb [6/2004] for $31.50 |
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"The Arts & Crafts House" [1999] by Adrian Tinniswood Watson-Guptill 11½x9¾ hardcover [10/99] out of print/used |
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"Outside The Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Garden" [1999] by Paul Duchscherer, photographs by Douglas Keister Studio Press 11x8½ [8/99] for $21.75 |
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"Inside The Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Interior" [1997] by Paul Duchscherer, photographs by Douglas Keister Studio Press 11x8¾ hardcover [11/97] for $21.45 |
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"Mission Furniture: Furniture of The American Arts & Crafts Movement" [1997] by Paul Royka Schiffer Publng 11x8½ hardcover [7/2003] for $51.06 Schiffer Publng 11½x8¾ hardcover [10/97] out of print/used |
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"American Bungalow Style" [1996] by Robert Winter & Alexander Vertikoff S&S 11½x8 hardcover [5/96] for $26.40 |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate 5¾x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
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"The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright & His Midwest Contemporaries" [1972] by H. Allen Brooks W.W. Norton pb [3/2006] for $19.00 W.W. Norton 8½x8½ pb [6/96] out of print/used |
Links
The American Institute of Architects [est. 1857]
A.I.A. New Mexico
The Pritzker Architecture Prize [est. 1979]
PSA Publishers [est. 1995]: California Architects &
World Architects
National Building Museum [est. 1980, opened 1985] in Washington, DC
Acorn & Deck House Custom Homes
ArtLinksList.com - arts directory / Architects
list of famous American architects at Wikipedia
ModHab: Earth-friendly design & construction in Downtown Albuquerque, NM
Design Within Reach - modern-style furniture & accessories [est. 1999]
Preservation Sites
'Preservation Magazine' of The National Trust
Historic Preservation Foundation of Indiana
Histopric Preservation League of Oregon
online Preservation Directory [U.S. & Canada]
Preserve L.A. [dot] com - Los Angeles & Southern California
Society for Commercial Archeology
Recent Past Preservation Network
PreserveNet at Cornell University [est. 1994]
National Register of Historic Places [USA]
The Griffin Company - building restoration [est. 1968] in Sutter Creek, CA
Tulsa [OK] Foundation for Architecture
![The National Trust for Historic Preservation [est. 1949]](images/NatlTrustHistPreservtn.jpg)
browse books on Historic Preservation at Amazon.com
Reference Sites
Glass, Steel & Stone: Architecture of the World
Great Buildings website
Prairie School info site
UPenn Architectural Collections / Archives
ARCspace website
Kristy's architecture fansite
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Architects entries at Yahoo! Directory
Southern California
Society of Architectural Historians - SoCal Chapter
Southern California Institute of Architecture [est. 1972]
SoCal Chapter of the Society of Landscape Architects
real estate + architecture [sales info on SoCal homes of architectural importance]
Preserve L.A. [dot] com - Los Angeles & Southern California
The Palm Springs Modern Committee [est.1999]
University of Southern California School of Architecture [ requires Flash ]
U.C.L.A. Architecture & Urban Design Dept. [ requires Flash7 ]
MS's Los Angeles architecture photo gallery
Landscape Architecture
American Society of Landscape Architects [est. 1899]
Southern California Chapter of the Society of Landscape Architects
Landscape Architects entries at Yahoo! Directory
American Architects & Architecture Pages
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