San Diego Architecture


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Pocket-sized guidebook to the eclectic architecture of San Diego County. Grouped by neighborhood/community location, with brief overviews of each area and a photo of each building.







AIA Guide to San Diego


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San Diego Architecture Downtown


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Unique guidebook to the architecture of San Diego's fast-growing downtown area. Color photos, maps, and informative text highlight notable sites throughout the Gaslamp Quarter and East Village, as well as in Balboa Park and Old Town State Park.




Paradise Found


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Leveraging the genius of photographer Julius Shulman, this survey of post-World War II modern architecture across San Diego County through vintage black and white images stands apart from other publications on the region's built environment.




University of California, San Diego


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Founded during the space-age boom of the 1950s, the University of California, San Diego campus showcases some ofCalifornia's finest postwar architecture. Perched dramatically above the Pacific Ocean, the campus architecture ranges from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, from the new millennium, buildings that reflect the latest ideas about connecting buildings with the student community. University of California, San Diego is both a history of campus planning and growth and a series of map-guided walking tours of its architectural landmarks, including visits to buildings by world-renowned architects, such as Antoine Predock, Michael Rotondi, and Moshe Safdie.







The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition


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Excerpt from The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Aesthetic Features of the Panama California International Exposition California State Building and the low-lying Fine Arts Building were to remain; the rest was to be swept away utterly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition


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San Diego AIA Guide


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