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A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1268-6 (0-7679-1268-3)
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was... Read more >
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1268-6 (0-7679-1268-3)
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was... Read more >
Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-50660-1 (0-385-50660-0)
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was... Read more >
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-50660-1 (0-385-50660-0)
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was... Read more >
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New York Waterfront
Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor
Written by Kevin Bone, Eugenia Bone and Mary Beth Betts
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 10, 2003
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-885254-54-2 (1-885254-54-7)
Created by a team of architects, historians, teachers, and students, The New York Waterfront is an unprecedented documentation of the rise and fall of the waterfront's architectural, technological, industrial, and commercial existence over the past 150 years. This densely illustrated book vividly presents and preserves the waterfront's development. Superb watercolor, ink... Read more >
Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor
Written by Kevin Bone, Eugenia Bone and Mary Beth Betts
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 10, 2003
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-885254-54-2 (1-885254-54-7)
Created by a team of architects, historians, teachers, and students, The New York Waterfront is an unprecedented documentation of the rise and fall of the waterfront's architectural, technological, industrial, and commercial existence over the past 150 years. This densely illustrated book vividly presents and preserves the waterfront's development. Superb watercolor, ink... Read more >
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Written by Corinne May Botz
Format: Hardcover, 225 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-145-8 (1-58093-145-6)
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she... Read more >
Written by Corinne May Botz
Format: Hardcover, 225 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-145-8 (1-58093-145-6)
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she... Read more >
Everyday Urbanism
Expanded
Edited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford and Kaliski John
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: December 23, 2008
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-201-1 (1-58093-201-0)
First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily routines and neighborhood concerns and offer both... Read more >
Expanded
Edited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford and Kaliski John
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: December 23, 2008
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-201-1 (1-58093-201-0)
First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily routines and neighborhood concerns and offer both... Read more >
Public Art for Public Schools
Written by Michele Cohen
Photographed by Stan Ries
Foreword by Michael Bloomberg
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-215-8 (1-58093-215-0)
What makes a good schoolhouse? Beyond the basics of classrooms and library, a good school inspires students and teachers and enhances the learning environment through its architecture and its art. Nowhere is this principle better demonstrated than in the New York City school system, the largest in the United States, where... Read more >
Written by Michele Cohen
Photographed by Stan Ries
Foreword by Michael Bloomberg
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: April 14, 2009
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-215-8 (1-58093-215-0)
What makes a good schoolhouse? Beyond the basics of classrooms and library, a good school inspires students and teachers and enhances the learning environment through its architecture and its art. Nowhere is this principle better demonstrated than in the New York City school system, the largest in the United States, where... Read more >
The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27724-4 (0-307-27724-0)
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27724-4 (0-307-27724-0)
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs... Read more >
The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42443-4 (0-375-42443-1)
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42443-4 (0-375-42443-1)
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
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Makers of Modern Architecture
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry
Written by Martin Filler
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-227-8 (1-59017-227-2)
Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our built environment, veteran architecture critic... Read more >
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry
Written by Martin Filler
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: New York Review Books
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-227-8 (1-59017-227-2)
Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our built environment, veteran architecture critic... Read more >
Essence of Home
Timeless Elements of Design
Written by Liesl Geiger
Foreword by Richard Gluckman
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-196-0 (1-58093-196-0)
Written for everyone who dreams of building a house, Essence of Home provides a step-by-step look at the planning process. Author and architect Liesl Geiger presents seven elements that are crucial to the success and livability of residential structures: design origins, site and scale, language and style, openings and light, spheres... Read more >
Timeless Elements of Design
Written by Liesl Geiger
Foreword by Richard Gluckman
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-196-0 (1-58093-196-0)
Written for everyone who dreams of building a house, Essence of Home provides a step-by-step look at the planning process. Author and architect Liesl Geiger presents seven elements that are crucial to the success and livability of residential structures: design origins, site and scale, language and style, openings and light, spheres... Read more >
A History of the Future
Written by Donna Goodman
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-207-3 (1-58093-207-X)
The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue... Read more >
Written by Donna Goodman
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 25, 2008
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-207-3 (1-58093-207-X)
The political, social, and economic upheaval of the early twentieth century generated an extraordinary range of proposals for the future as successive generations grappled with issues of organizing vast urban systems and humanizing dense industrial environments. As conceptual design became the vehicle for exploring ideas and presenting new movements, a dialogue... Read more >
Architecture of Democracy
Written by Allan Greenberg
Foreword by George Shultz
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2793-0 (0-8478-2793-3)
2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Award (Bronze Medal, Architecture)
Centered on his intriguing synthesis of the American republic's architectural and democratic traditions, Allan Greenberg's essay moves across geography and through history as the renowned architect and scholar makes the case that America's architectural tradition and political ideals are deeply connected.
At the... Read more >
Written by Allan Greenberg
Foreword by George Shultz
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2793-0 (0-8478-2793-3)
2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Award (Bronze Medal, Architecture)
Centered on his intriguing synthesis of the American republic's architectural and democratic traditions, Allan Greenberg's essay moves across geography and through history as the renowned architect and scholar makes the case that America's architectural tradition and political ideals are deeply connected.
At the... Read more >
The Hidden Dimension
Written by Edward T. Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-08476-5 (0-385-08476-5)
An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. Read more >
Written by Edward T. Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-08476-5 (0-385-08476-5)
An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. Read more >
Building Suburbia
Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Written by Dolores Hayden
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72721-4 (0-375-72721-3)
A lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live, Building Suburbia chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America’s metropolitan regions.
From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban... Read more >
Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Written by Dolores Hayden
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72721-4 (0-375-72721-3)
A lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live, Building Suburbia chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America’s metropolitan regions.
From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban... Read more >
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The Experience of Place
A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
Written by Tony Hiss
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73594-6 (0-679-73594-1)
This is a significant new analysis of the impact on our senses of our everyday surroundings: the subtle and pervasive ways in which, from childhood and throughout our lives, we experience place, and how the experience affects us for good or ill. Hiss shows how society can continue to grow without... Read more >
A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
Written by Tony Hiss
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73594-6 (0-679-73594-1)
This is a significant new analysis of the impact on our senses of our everyday surroundings: the subtle and pervasive ways in which, from childhood and throughout our lives, we experience place, and how the experience affects us for good or ill. Hiss shows how society can continue to grow without... Read more >
Loving Frank
A Novel
Written by Nancy Horan
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-49499-3 (0-345-49499-7)
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Nancy Horan
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-49499-3 (0-345-49499-7)
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903... Read more >
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Conversations with Frank Gehry
Written by Barbara Isenberg
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26800-6 (0-307-26800-4)
An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights into the man and his work.
Gehry’s subjects range... Read more >
Written by Barbara Isenberg
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26800-6 (0-307-26800-4)
An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights into the man and his work.
Gehry’s subjects range... Read more >
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74195-4 (0-679-74195-X)
A direct indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what... Read more >
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74195-4 (0-679-74195-X)
A direct indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what... Read more >
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Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75884-3 (0-375-75884-4)
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Written by Jill Jonnes
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75884-3 (0-375-75884-4)
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless... Read more >
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The Angel of the Left Bank
The Secrets of Delacroix's Parisian Masterpiece
Written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7086-9 (0-8129-7086-1)
In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way.
With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated The Black Room... Read more >
The Secrets of Delacroix's Parisian Masterpiece
Written by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7086-9 (0-8129-7086-1)
In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way.
With the same insight and understanding he brought to his National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated The Black Room... Read more >
The Light Construction Reader
Written by Jeffrey Kipnis and Todd Gannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 1, 2002
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-105-2 (1-58093-105-7)
The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to... Read more >
Written by Jeffrey Kipnis and Todd Gannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: November 1, 2002
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-105-2 (1-58093-105-7)
The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to... Read more >
Delirious New York
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Written by Rem Koolhaas
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: December 1, 1997
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-885254-00-9 (1-885254-00-8)
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts... Read more >
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Written by Rem Koolhaas
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: December 1, 1997
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-885254-00-9 (1-885254-00-8)
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts... Read more >
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72560-9 (0-375-72560-1)
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more >
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72560-9 (0-375-72560-1)
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the... Read more >
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Masters of Modern Design
A Critical Assessment
Written by George H. Marcus
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-160-1 (1-58093-160-X)
The twelve designers featured in Masters of Modern Design -- originators of ideas vital to the contemporary world -- have had an immeasurable impact on the buildings, houses, furniture, cars, and basic products we use daily. George Marcus offers biographical sketches and critical evaluations of William Morris, Henry van de Velde... Read more >
A Critical Assessment
Written by George H. Marcus
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-160-1 (1-58093-160-X)
The twelve designers featured in Masters of Modern Design -- originators of ideas vital to the contemporary world -- have had an immeasurable impact on the buildings, houses, furniture, cars, and basic products we use daily. George Marcus offers biographical sketches and critical evaluations of William Morris, Henry van de Velde... Read more >
A Field Guide to American Houses
Written by Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-73969-4 (0-394-73969-8)
"The best field guide to American residential architecture that has ever been published and likely to remain so for many years. Its superiority...is obvious from the most cursory examination."
--Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"In this prodigious work of scholarship the synthesis is admirable and meticulously executed, the command of the... Read more >
Written by Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-73969-4 (0-394-73969-8)
"The best field guide to American residential architecture that has ever been published and likely to remain so for many years. Its superiority...is obvious from the most cursory examination."
--Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"In this prodigious work of scholarship the synthesis is admirable and meticulously executed, the command of the... Read more >
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