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The Poetics of Space
Written by Gaston Bachelard
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6473-3 (0-8070-6473-4)
“A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of... Read more >
Written by Gaston Bachelard
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 1994
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6473-3 (0-8070-6473-4)
“A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of... Read more >
Higher
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: $19.00
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: $19.00
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 >
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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 World War II Memorial
A Grateful Nation Remembers
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by John Eisenhower
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-210-2 (1-58834-210-7)
Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to “The Greatest Generation.” Sixteen million Americans served in the armed forces–more than 400,000 gave their lives–and millions supported the war effort... Read more >
A Grateful Nation Remembers
Edited by Douglas Brinkley
Foreword by John Eisenhower
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-210-2 (1-58834-210-7)
Assuming its rightful place of honor on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial is an eloquent and moving tribute to “The Greatest Generation.” Sixteen million Americans served in the armed forces–more than 400,000 gave their lives–and millions supported the war effort... Read more >
Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White
Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age
Written by Mosette Broderick
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-53662-0 (0-394-53662-2)
A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential, far-reaching architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine America’s idea of beauty, elevated its architectural... Read more >
Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age
Written by Mosette Broderick
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 26, 2010
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-53662-0 (0-394-53662-2)
A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential, far-reaching architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine America’s idea of beauty, elevated its architectural... Read more >
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At Home
A Short History of Private Life
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1939-5 (0-7679-1939-4)
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about... Read more >
A Short History of Private Life
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1939-5 (0-7679-1939-4)
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about... Read more >
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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 >
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How to Read Bridges
A Crash Course In Engineering and Architecture
Written by Edward Denison and Ian Stewart
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2491-7 (0-7893-2491-1)
This accessible book is a visual guide to understanding and identifying architectural styles and engineering techniques of all types of bridges, from ancient Roman arch bridges and nineteenth-century truss bridges prevalent in the United States, to the latest high-design cantilever and suspension bridges of the moment. It explores the elegant and... Read more >
A Crash Course In Engineering and Architecture
Written by Edward Denison and Ian Stewart
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-7893-2491-7 (0-7893-2491-1)
This accessible book is a visual guide to understanding and identifying architectural styles and engineering techniques of all types of bridges, from ancient Roman arch bridges and nineteenth-century truss bridges prevalent in the United States, to the latest high-design cantilever and suspension bridges of the moment. It explores the elegant and... Read more >
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 >
Best Addresses
A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses
Written by James M. Goode
Format: Hardcover, 597 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 2003
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-0-87474-476-7 (0-87474-476-8)
A century ago, the popularity of early Washington landmarks like Stoneleigh Court and the controversial Cairo (which, at a soaring twelve stories, shocked District officials into enacting the city’s height limit) made it clear that apartment living was here to stay. By the 1920s, Beaux Art and Art Deco palaces offered... Read more >
A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses
Written by James M. Goode
Format: Hardcover, 597 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: April 17, 2003
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 978-0-87474-476-7 (0-87474-476-8)
A century ago, the popularity of early Washington landmarks like Stoneleigh Court and the controversial Cairo (which, at a soaring twelve stories, shocked District officials into enacting the city’s height limit) made it clear that apartment living was here to stay. By the 1920s, Beaux Art and Art Deco palaces offered... Read more >
Capital Losses
A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings, Second Edition
Written by James M. Goode
Format: Hardcover, 541 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 2003
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-105-1 (1-58834-105-4)
Before the passage of critical preservation legislation in 1978, the Nation’s Capital lost an irreplaceable assembly of architecturally and culturally significant buildings. Wanton destruction in the name of progress–particularly in the decades immediately following World War II–resulted in a legacy forever lost, a cultural heritage destroyed by the wrecker’s ball. By... Read more >
A Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings, Second Edition
Written by James M. Goode
Format: Hardcover, 541 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 2003
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-105-1 (1-58834-105-4)
Before the passage of critical preservation legislation in 1978, the Nation’s Capital lost an irreplaceable assembly of architecturally and culturally significant buildings. Wanton destruction in the name of progress–particularly in the decades immediately following World War II–resulted in a legacy forever lost, a cultural heritage destroyed by the wrecker’s ball. By... 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 >
Walking Home
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Written by Ken Greenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-35815-8 (0-307-35815-1)
One of the world’s foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.
From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in... Read more >
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Written by Ken Greenberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-35815-8 (0-307-35815-1)
One of the world’s foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.
From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in... Read more >
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Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond
Rethinking Cities for the Future
Edited by Tigran Haas
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3836-3 (0-8478-3836-6)
The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and major metropolitan areas, and in the next two decades the number of city dwellers is estimated to... Read more >
Rethinking Cities for the Future
Edited by Tigran Haas
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3836-3 (0-8478-3836-6)
The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and major metropolitan areas, and in the next two decades the number of city dwellers is estimated to... Read more >
The Hidden Dimension
Written by Edward T. Hall
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $15.95
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: $15.95
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: $18.00
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: $18.00
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: $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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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 >
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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: $16.00
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: $16.00
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 >
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: $17.00
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: $17.00
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 >
Experimental Drawing, 30th Anniversary Edition
Creative Exercises Illustrated by Old and New Masters
Written by Robert Kaupelis
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: August 1, 1992
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 978-0-8230-1622-8 (0-8230-1622-6)
Stimulating exercises to help beginner to advanced students push the boundaries of traditional drawing.
As with most art forms, it's best to comprehend traditional drawing techniques before you break the rules. But once you've mastered the basics, you may find that you gravitate to more abstract ways of rendering everything from still... Read more >
Creative Exercises Illustrated by Old and New Masters
Written by Robert Kaupelis
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: August 1, 1992
Price: $23.99
ISBN: 978-0-8230-1622-8 (0-8230-1622-6)
Stimulating exercises to help beginner to advanced students push the boundaries of traditional drawing.
As with most art forms, it's best to comprehend traditional drawing techniques before you break the rules. But once you've mastered the basics, you may find that you gravitate to more abstract ways of rendering everything from still... Read more >
Architectural Sketching and Rendering
Techniques for Designers and Artists
Edited by Stephen Kliment
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-0-8230-7053-4 (0-8230-7053-0)
Whether a designer, an architect, an artist or a student interested in architecture, this volume, filled with a broad range of sketching and rendering techniques and styles, offers the complete intermediate level of instruction.
How to achieve effects with pencils and pens is covered in Part 1. The various types of media... Read more >
Techniques for Designers and Artists
Edited by Stephen Kliment
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-0-8230-7053-4 (0-8230-7053-0)
Whether a designer, an architect, an artist or a student interested in architecture, this volume, filled with a broad range of sketching and rendering techniques and styles, offers the complete intermediate level of instruction.
How to achieve effects with pencils and pens is covered in Part 1. The various types of media... Read more >
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