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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C.

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This full of life and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados alike insights into more than 400 of Washington, D.C.’s, most important landmarks. Organized into 19 discrete tours, this thoroughly redesigned and up to date edition includes 45 new entries, encompassing the House of Sweden and the U.S. Institute of Peace, classic buildings that epitomize the city―the White House, the Capitol, Union Station―and plenty of private buildings off the beaten path.

G. Martin Moeller, Jr., blends informed, concise descriptions with engaging statement on Each and every landmark, revealing incessantly-surprising details of the buildings’ history and design. Each and every entry is accompanied by a photograph and includes the structure’s location, its architects and designers, and the corresponding dates of completion. Each and every entry is keyed to a very easy-to-read map at the start of the tour.

From the imposing monuments of Capitol Hill and the Mall to the pastoral suburban enclaves of Foxhall and Cleveland Park, from small memorials to vast commercial and institutional complexes, this guide shows us a Washington that may be at once excitingly fresh and comfortably familiar.


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