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Grand Avenues
The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
Written by Scott W. Berg
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7622-2 (1-4000-7622-6)
In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his imperious and unyielding... Read more >
The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
Written by Scott W. Berg
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7622-2 (1-4000-7622-6)
In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his imperious and unyielding... Read more >
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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 >
The Essentials of Garden Design
Written by John Brookes
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26902-7 (0-307-26902-7)
John Brookes is one of the most original and creative garden designers in the world. He is known for the more than 1,200 gardens he has designed worldwide and for being an inspiring teacher. His work teaching generations of garden designers has influenced the way we look at, and think about... Read more >
Written by John Brookes
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26902-7 (0-307-26902-7)
John Brookes is one of the most original and creative garden designers in the world. He is known for the more than 1,200 gardens he has designed worldwide and for being an inspiring teacher. His work teaching generations of garden designers has influenced the way we look at, and think about... 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 >
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 >
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Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity
Edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Olga F. Linares
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-288-1 (1-58834-288-3)
Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations.
After introducing theoretical... Read more >
Edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Olga F. Linares
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-288-1 (1-58834-288-3)
Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations.
After introducing theoretical... 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 >
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: $16.00
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: $16.00
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 >
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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: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-60844-9 (0-609-60844-4)
Winner, 2004 Edgar Award
Winner, 2003 International Horror Guild Award for Non-fiction
2003 National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction
Vintage Paperback is Available
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... Read more >
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-609-60844-9 (0-609-60844-4)
Winner, 2004 Edgar Award
Winner, 2003 International Horror Guild Award for Non-fiction
2003 National Book Award Finalist, Non-Fiction
Vintage Paperback is Available
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... Read more >
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Wild Design
Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
Written by Alan Marshall
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-790-8 (1-55643-790-0)
In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of... Read more >
Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature
Written by Alan Marshall
Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-790-8 (1-55643-790-0)
In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of... Read more >
Towards a New Museum
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 349 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-180-9 (1-58093-180-4)
Since first publication in 1998, Towards a New Museum has achieved iconic status as a seminal exploration of the late-20th-century revolution in museum architecture: the transformation from museum as restrained container for art to museum as exuberant companion to art. Author Victoria Newhouse critiqued numerous institutions for the display of art... Read more >
Written by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 349 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-180-9 (1-58093-180-4)
Since first publication in 1998, Towards a New Museum has achieved iconic status as a seminal exploration of the late-20th-century revolution in museum architecture: the transformation from museum as restrained container for art to museum as exuberant companion to art. Author Victoria Newhouse critiqued numerous institutions for the display of art... Read more >
The Seduction of Place
The History and Future of Cities
Written by Joseph Rykwert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70044-6 (0-375-70044-7)
The acclaimed and provocative architectural historian Joseph Rykwert explores the history of the city and calls for the return of a human agenda to city planning.
Focusing on a range of urban environments around the world–from 19th-century London and Paris, to contemporary New Delhi, New York, and Celebration, Florida–Rykwert discusses the... Read more >
The History and Future of Cities
Written by Joseph Rykwert
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70044-6 (0-375-70044-7)
The acclaimed and provocative architectural historian Joseph Rykwert explores the history of the city and calls for the return of a human agenda to city planning.
Focusing on a range of urban environments around the world–from 19th-century London and Paris, to contemporary New Delhi, New York, and Celebration, Florida–Rykwert discusses the... Read more >
Modern Shoestring
Contemporary Architecture on a Budget
Written by Susanna Sirefman
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: May 15, 2008
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-202-8 (1-58093-202-9)
Residential design provides a rich testing ground for architectural innovation. Intimate scales and specific programs inspire distinctive homes, and comparatively small budgets are catalysts for exploring nontraditional materials. Modern Shoestring proves that building a contemporary house can be affordable and shows how constraints actually stimulate the most creative design solutions.
Eighteen... Read more >
Contemporary Architecture on a Budget
Written by Susanna Sirefman
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: May 15, 2008
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-58093-202-8 (1-58093-202-9)
Residential design provides a rich testing ground for architectural innovation. Intimate scales and specific programs inspire distinctive homes, and comparatively small budgets are catalysts for exploring nontraditional materials. Modern Shoestring proves that building a contemporary house can be affordable and shows how constraints actually stimulate the most creative design solutions.
Eighteen... Read more >
The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Written by Bernard Tschumi
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: January 30, 2004
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58093-134-2 (1-58093-134-0)
In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world's leading architectural designers and theorists -- Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Thom Mayne, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and many others -- for a conference at Columbia University. The exceptional... Read more >
Written by Bernard Tschumi
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
On Sale: January 30, 2004
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-58093-134-2 (1-58093-134-0)
In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world's leading architectural designers and theorists -- Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Thom Mayne, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and many others -- for a conference at Columbia University. The exceptional... Read more >
The Brother Gardeners
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27023-8 (0-307-27023-8)
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds... Read more >
Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Written by Andrea Wulf
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27023-8 (0-307-27023-8)
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It’s the story of a garden revolution that began in America.
In 1733, the American farmer John Bartram dispatched two boxes of plants and seeds... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
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