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Architectural Drawing: The Art and the Process
by Allen, Gerald; Oliver, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0823070433
- ISBN 13
- 9780823070435
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York.: Whitney Library of Design, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition, first printng. Quarto, beige cloth covered boards. 200pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with 174 plans, elevations and drawings with 24 in full color. A book for architects and for art lovers which shows how drawings for buildings constitute an important element in the development of architecture even for buildings which do not get built. An anthology of famous designs and drawings from leading modern architects. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, clean, unblemished dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05018
- Title
- Architectural Drawing: The Art and the Process
- Author
- Allen, Gerald; Oliver, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- F
- ISBN 10
- 0823070433
- ISBN 13
- 9780823070435
- Publisher
- New York.: Whitney Library of Design, 1981.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1981
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING ARCHITECTURE DESIGN DRAFTING 0823070433 DESIGNER, PLAN, DIAGRAM, BLUEPRINT, REPRESENTATION, ELEVATION, SKETCH, ANTHOLOGY, HISTORY, FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, AMERICAN, RUSTIC, URBAN, RESIDENCE, DOCUMENTATION, DRAWING, ART,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Fine
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- Quarto
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