295 books in Architecture
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Jim Olson Houses
Written by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
Introduction by Michael Webb
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
The sixteen houses and apartments featured here respond to different needs and sites, but all share a common DNA. They are the product of a singular vision and a collaborative process.
—Michael Webb
Seattle-based architect Jim Olson, the founding partner of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, is particularly known for his subtly elegant... Read more >
Written by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
Introduction by Michael Webb
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
The sixteen houses and apartments featured here respond to different needs and sites, but all share a common DNA. They are the product of a singular vision and a collaborative process.
—Michael Webb
Seattle-based architect Jim Olson, the founding partner of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, is particularly known for his subtly elegant... Read more >
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The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
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
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
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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Vogue Living
Houses, Gardens, People
Written by Hamish Bowles
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $75.00
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue... Read more >
Houses, Gardens, People
Written by Hamish Bowles
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $75.00
This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue... Read more >
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Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Written by Anthony Flint
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $27.00
To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. The activist, writer, and mother of three grew so fond of her bustling community that it became a touchstone for her landmark book The Death and Life of Great... Read more >
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SOM
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1997-2008
Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $60.00
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founded in 1936, is one of the largest and most influential architecture firms in the world. SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for... Read more >
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1997-2008
Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $60.00
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founded in 1936, is one of the largest and most influential architecture firms in the world. SOM has long been known for innovation, experimentation, design excellence, and technical mastery, for an abiding interest in the contributions that buildings can make to the life of cities, and for... Read more >
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Rooms to Remember
The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker
Written by Suzanne Tucker
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $65.00
In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age... Read more >
The Classic Interiors of Suzanne Tucker
Written by Suzanne Tucker
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $65.00
In the work of interior designer Suzanne Tucker, art and artifact collections are displayed to best advantage for daily enjoyment by their owners, custom-mixed wall colors are set off by richly sensual textiles and forms, and inherited pieces are blended with newly found treasures to bestow a subtle aura of age... Read more >
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Building Up and Tearing Down
Reflections on the Age of Architecture
Written by Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $35.00
PAUL GOLDBERGER
ON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURE
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger’s tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating era in the world of architecture, one... Read more >
Reflections on the Age of Architecture
Written by Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $35.00
PAUL GOLDBERGER
ON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURE
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger’s tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating era in the world of architecture, one... Read more >
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The Art of Living
Text by Claudia Steinberg
Photographed by Barbel Miebach
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
To artists and designers, a home is a canvas on which they can project themselves, a testing ground for creative impulses, a place to display the objects that inspire them, a venue for experimentation with forms and materials that later appear in their own work. In this unique volume, photographer Bärbel... Read more >
Text by Claudia Steinberg
Photographed by Barbel Miebach
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $65.00
To artists and designers, a home is a canvas on which they can project themselves, a testing ground for creative impulses, a place to display the objects that inspire them, a venue for experimentation with forms and materials that later appear in their own work. In this unique volume, photographer Bärbel... Read more >
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A Field Guide to American Houses
Written by Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $26.95
The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present. Read more >
Written by Virginia McAlester and Lee McAlester
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1984
Price: $26.95
The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present. Read more >
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740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day... Read more >
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