Random House New Releases - Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings

Going to Town by Katherine Ashenburg

2012-11-13T00:30:00-05:00

Going to Town Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg

eBook, 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Travel - Canada; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $14.99 | 978-1-55199-637-0 (1-55199-637-5)

Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.

With 300 photos and 11 maps.

A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate voyeurism, and beckons even the most reluctant to physical exercise.

Katherine Ashenburg is our knowledgeable and charmingly opinionated companion on walking tours of ten small (populations 1000 to 27,000) Ontario communities that provide a rewarding variety of domestic and public architecture in a walkable compass. Each tour begins with a brief historical sketch of the town, then, with the aid of a detailed map, guides the reader/walker to some 60 sites over a leisurely but carefully plotted two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half hour stroll. We visit churches and jails, libraries and town halls, theatres and factories, and all manner of houses - homes of startling grandiosity and humble integrity. We become conversant with belvederes and ogee arches, Flemish bond and board and batten, at ease with Regency and Queen Anne, Italianate and Romanesque. And along the way, Ashenburg reveals the town’s true personality, its distinctive architectural styles, forms and materials, and the genius, ambition, and vanities of its founders and builders.

Every town - Perth, Picton, Cobourg, St. Mary’s, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Merrickville, Port Hope, Paris, Stratford and Goderich - is a day’s excursion from Toronto by a car or public transit; most are day-trips from either Ottawa or London. Over 300 black and white photographs capture the highlights; 11 maps show the way. For easy reference, there is a helpful, illustrated Guide to Historical Styles and an exhaustive Glossary of Architectural terms - everything from Apse to Voussoir.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Site and Sound by Victoria Newhouse

2012-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

Site and Sound The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
Written by Victoria Newhouse

Hardcover, 256 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Music - History & Criticism; Science - Acoustics & Sound | $50.00 | 978-1-58093-281-3 (1-58093-281-9)

Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or the other way around?

Heavily illustrated throughout—with historic images, spectular color photographs, detailed drawings—this volume is an informed and enjoyable presentation of a building type that is at the heart of cities small and large.

Newhouse starts with a survey of venues from ancient Greek and Roman times and progresses to contemporary works around the world. She singles out Lincoln Center in particular for its long history and its transitions and remodelings over the years. Two major chapters cover the present: one focuses on recent work in the West, including the National Opera House of Norway in Oslo by Snøhetta (2008), the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal, by Rem Koolhaas (2005), and many more; the second examines the boom in concert halls in China. A final chapter looks at projects that are currently planned and the future of an architecture for music.

Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint

2011-02-08T00:30:00-05:00

Wrestling with Moses How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint

Trade Paperback, 272 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Architecture - History; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $15.00 | 978-0-8129-8136-0 (0-8129-8136-7)

The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental development projects, thought neighborhoods like Greenwich Village were badly in need of “urban renewal.” Standing up against government plans for the city, Jacobs marshaled popular support and political power against Moses, whether to block traffic through her beloved Washington Square Park or to prevent the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, an elevated superhighway that would have destroyed centuries-old streetscapes and displaced thousands of families. By confronting Moses and his vision, Jacobs forever changed the way Americans understood the city. Her story reminds us of the power we have as individuals to confront and defy reckless authority.

Robert A. M. Stern by Robert A.M. Stern

2010-12-21T00:30:00-05:00

Robert A. M. Stern On Campus
Written by Robert A.M. Stern

Hardcover, 576 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture - Individual Architect | $85.00 | 978-1-58093-283-7 (1-58093-283-5)

At its best, the college campus is the representation of beliefs, of the specific character of a place, of a community, of an institution. It is the setting for the continually evolving interaction of people and ideas over time.
—Robert A. M. Stern

Ss an architect, educator, and architectural historian, Robert A. M. Stern brings special knowledge and expertise to issues of campus master planning and the design of academic buildings. This unique volume collects more than fifty projects by the firm for the most prestigious institutions in America—Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, University of Virginia—and focuses on the importance of the historic character of the place in charting the future.

In surveying the American campus, Stern begins with Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village at the University of Virginia and then considers its many heirs. He organizes campuses into three principal paradigms: the Embedded Campus, those closely connected with the fabric of the cities and towns in which they sit; the Citadel Campus, those perched above and removed from the surroundings; and the Garden Campus, those whose buildings sit in a more casual configuration in the landscape.

Each campus is described in detail, with historic photographs and campus plans illustrating its development. Projects by Robert A. M. Stern Architects are placed in their context, providing a complete view of these distinguished places of learning.

The President's House by Margaret Truman

2007-12-18T00:30:00-05:00

The President's House 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman

eBook, 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Juvenile Fiction - Historical; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer | $9.99 | 978-0-307-41731-2 (0-307-41731-X)

As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In this splendid blend of the personal and historic, Margaret Truman offers an unforgettable tour of “the president’s house” across the span of two centuries.

Opened (though not finished) in 1800 and originally dubbed a “palace,” the White House has been fascinating from day one. In Thomas Jefferson’s day, it was a reeking construction site where congressmen complained of the hazards of open rubbish pits. Andrew Jackson’s supporters, descending twenty thousand strong from the backwoods of Kentucky and Tennessee, nearly destroyed the place during his first inaugural. Teddy Roosevelt expanded it, Jackie Kennedy and Pat Nixon redecorated it. Through all the vicissitudes of its history, the White House has transformed the characters, and often the fates, of its powerful occupants.

In The President’s House, Margaret Truman takes us behind the scenes, into the deepest recesses and onto the airiest balconies, as she reveals what it feels like to live in the White House. Here are hilarious stories of Teddy Roosevelt’s rambunctious children tossing spitballs at presidential portraits–as well as a heartbreaking account of the tragedy that befell President Coolidge’s young son, Calvin, Jr. Here, too, is the real story of the Lincoln Bedroom and the thrilling narrative of how first lady Dolley Madison rescued a priceless portrait of George Washington and a copy of the Declaration of Independence before British soldiers torched the White House in 1814.

Today the 132-room White House operates as an exotic combination of first-class hotel and fortress, with 1,600 dedicated workers, an annual budget over $1 billion, and a kitchen that can handle anything from an intimate dinner for four to a reception for 2,400. But ghosts of the past still walk its august corridors–including a phantom whose visit President Harry S Truman described to his daughter in eerie detail.

From the basement swarming with reporters to the Situation Room crammed with sophisticated technology to the Oval Office where the president receives the world’s leaders, the White House is a beehive of relentless activity, deal-making, intrigue, gossip, and of course history in the making. In this evocative and insightful book, Margaret Truman combines high-stakes drama with the unique perspective of an insider. The ultimate guided tour of the nation’s most famous dwelling, The President’s House is truly a national treasure.

From the Hardcover edition.

Pushing the Limits by Henry Petroski

2007-12-18T00:30:00-05:00

Pushing the Limits New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski

eBook, 304 pages | Vintage | Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture - History; Transportation | $13.99 | 978-0-307-42736-6 (0-307-42736-6)

Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China’s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse

2007-01-01T00:30:00-05:00

Towards a New Museum
Written by Victoria Newhouse

Trade Paperback, 349 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - Methods & Materials; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $50.00 | 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 opened in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, culminating in Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meier's Getty Center in Los Angeles. In this expanded edition, she continues her investigation of new museums, assessing the radical, 21st-century changes that have propelled Herzog & de Meuron's De Young Museum in San Francisco and SANAA's 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, to the forefront of this building type.

Among the institutions added to this new edition are the Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Pinacoteca, perched atop an enormous Fiat factory in Turin, Italy, and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, both by Renzo Piano Building Workshop; three notable updates of the museum as sacred space, two by Yoshio Taniguchi and one by SANAA; the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati by Zaha Hadid; and expansions of the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis by Herzog & de Meuron, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York by Taniguchi. Finally, the De Young Museum, reflecting its own eclectic conditions, and the 21st Century Museum, consisting of non-hierarchical spaces for every conceivable kind of contemporary artwork as well as facilities for social exchange, are innovative hybrids that propose new directions for the future of museum architecture.

Pushing the Limits by Henry Petroski

2005-09-13T00:30:00-05:00

Pushing the Limits New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Vintage | Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture - History; Transportation | $14.95 | 978-1-4000-3294-5 (1-4000-3294-6)

British Theatres and Music Halls by John Earl

2005-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

British Theatres and Music Halls
Written by John Earl

Trade Paperback, 56 pages | Shire | Performing Arts - Theater; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $12.95 | 978-0-7478-0627-1 (0-7478-0627-6)

The President's House by Margaret Truman

2005-01-25T00:30:00-05:00

The President's House 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Ballantine Books | Juvenile Fiction - Historical; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer | $13.00 | 978-0-345-47248-9 (0-345-47248-9)

The Seduction of Place by Joseph Rykwert

2002-03-12T00:30:00-05:00

The Seduction of Place The History and Future of Cities
Written by Joseph Rykwert

Trade Paperback, 336 pages | Vintage | History - Modern - 20th Century; Social Science - Sociology - Urban; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $18.00 | 978-0-375-70044-6 (0-375-70044-7)

No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life will also be the result of choices. Our choices.

That cities display and represent the personal desires of their inhabitants is central to Joseph Rykwert’s argument in The Seduction of Place. Insisting that they are the physical constructs of communities, he travels through history to trace their roots in ancient times and outlines current attempts and future possibilities to improve the metropolis. Rykwert includes a broad range of urban landscapes: 18th-and 19th-century Paris and London, the current sprawl of Mexico City and Cairo, planned cities like Brasilia, and, finally, New York, the world capital.

Always opinionated and often controversial, Rykwert assesses how and why urban projects from the past succeeded or failed and what lessons can be drawn from them for the future. Ultimately, The Seduction of Place is a deeply felt and powerfully reasoned call for a commitment by every citizen to the creation of a more humane place to live.

Egyptian Towns and Cities by Eric Uphill

2001-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

Egyptian Towns and Cities
Written by Eric Uphill

Trade Paperback, 72 pages | Shire | Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; History - Ancient - Egypt | $13.95 | 978-0-85263-939-9 (0-85263-939-2)

New York 1880 by David Fishman

1999-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

New York 1880 Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age
Written by Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman

Hardcover, 1164 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - History; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $85.00 | 978-1-58093-027-7 (1-58093-027-1)

This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century.

In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the beginning of European modernism -- to trace the earlier history of the city. This dynamic era saw the technological advances and acts of civic and private will that formed the identity of New York City as we know it today. The installation of water, telephone, and electricity infrastructures as well as the advent of electric lighting, the elevator, and mass transit allowed the city to grow both out and up. The office building and apartment house types were envisioned and defined, changing the ways that New Yorkers worked and lived. Such massive public projects as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became realities, along with such private efforts as Grand Central Station.

Like the other three volumes, New York 1880 is an in-depth presentation of the buildings and plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. A broad range of primary sources -- critics and writers, architects, planners, city officials -- brings the time period to life and allows the city to tell its own complex story. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs, which show the city as it was, and as some parts of it still are.

S, M, L, XL by Bruce Mau

1997-10-01T00:30:00-05:00

S, M, L, XL
Written by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau

Hardcover, 1376 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - Reference; Architecture - Planning; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $85.00 | 978-1-885254-86-3 (1-885254-86-5)

S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.

The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.

Going to Town by Katherine Ashenburg

1996-01-01T00:30:00-05:00

Going to Town Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg

Trade Paperback | Macfarlane Walter & Ross | Travel - Canada; Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $19.95 | 978-0-921912-95-8 (0-921912-95-1)

Discovering Timber-framed Buildings by Richard Harris

1993-06-24T00:30:00-05:00

Discovering Timber-framed Buildings
Written by Richard Harris

Trade Paperback, 96 pages | Shire | Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings | $13.95 | 978-0-7478-0215-0 (0-7478-0215-7)

Random House New Releases - Architecture - Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings

Going to Town by Katherine Ashenburg

Going to Town Architectural Walking Tours in Southern OntarioWritten by Katherine Ashenburg

Site and Sound by Victoria Newhouse

Site and Sound The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert HallsWritten by Victoria Newhouse

Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint

Wrestling with Moses How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American CityWritten by Anthony Flint

Robert A. M. Stern by Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A. M. Stern On CampusWritten by Robert A.M. Stern

The President's House by Margaret Truman

The President's House 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous HomeWritten by Margaret Truman

Pushing the Limits by Henry Petroski

Pushing the Limits New Adventures in EngineeringWritten by Henry Petroski

Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse

Towards a New Museum Written by Victoria Newhouse

Pushing the Limits by Henry Petroski

Pushing the Limits New Adventures in EngineeringWritten by Henry Petroski

British Theatres and Music Halls by John Earl

British Theatres and Music Halls Written by John Earl

The President's House by Margaret Truman

The President's House 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous HomeWritten by Margaret Truman

The Seduction of Place by Joseph Rykwert

The Seduction of Place The History and Future of CitiesWritten by Joseph Rykwert

Egyptian Towns and Cities by Eric Uphill

Egyptian Towns and Cities Written by Eric Uphill

New York 1880 by David Fishman

New York 1880 Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded AgeWritten by Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman

S, M, L, XL by Bruce Mau

S, M, L, XL Written by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau

Going to Town by Katherine Ashenburg

Going to Town Architectural Walking Tours in Southern OntarioWritten by Katherine Ashenburg

Discovering Timber-framed Buildings by Richard Harris

Discovering Timber-framed Buildings Written by Richard Harris

Going to Town Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg

Site and Sound The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls
Written by Victoria Newhouse

Wrestling with Moses How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint

Robert A. M. Stern On Campus
Written by Robert A.M. Stern

The President's House 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman

Pushing the Limits New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski

Towards a New Museum
Written by Victoria Newhouse

Pushing the Limits New Adventures in Engineering
Written by Henry Petroski

British Theatres and Music Halls
Written by John Earl

The President's House 1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home
Written by Margaret Truman

The Seduction of Place The History and Future of Cities
Written by Joseph Rykwert

Egyptian Towns and Cities
Written by Eric Uphill

New York 1880 Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age
Written by Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman

S, M, L, XL
Written by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau

Going to Town Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg

Discovering Timber-framed Buildings
Written by Richard Harris