The Unending Mystery
A Journey Through Labyrinths ansd Mazes
Written by David W. McCullough
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99
According to legend, anyone who wandered into the labyrinth in Ancient Crete never came out again. Some labyrinths may have offered patterns for an erotic spring dance. Those on the floors of Medieval cathedrals represent mathematical perfection–and walking their paths was a symbolic approach to the divine. From ancient Mediterranean coin...
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Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Written by Neal Bascomb
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $15.99
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...
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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 GOLDBERGERON THE AGE OF ARCHITECTUREThe 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...
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Robert A. M. Stern
On Campus
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: December 21, 2010
Price: $85.00
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...
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Lost Vanguard
Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932
Written by Richard Pare
Introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen
Format: Hardcover, 348 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2007
Price: $85.00
The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new...
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Martha's Vineyard
Contemporary Living
Written by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $50.00
Each year the pristine beaches, lush pine forests, and picturesque New England towns of Martha’s Vineyard draw tens of thousands of admirers to this beautiful island. Some of these visitors have become part-time residents, building contemporary homes alongside the traditional Victorian cottages, sea captains’ mansions, and colonial farmhouses that comprise the...
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Conversations with Frank Gehry
Written by Barbara Isenberg
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2012
Price: $21.99
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...
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Rafael Moneo
Remarks on 21 Works
Written by Rafael Moneo
Format: Hardcover, 668 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $75.00
Rafael Moneo is a courageous architect, one who for decades has defined his own style of architecture. With a sensitivity to materials and context unmatched by any living architect, Moneo has created a series of important works, including the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston...
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La Formentera
The Woodland Refuge of Juan Montoya
Photographed by Eric Piasecki
Introduction by Karen Lehrman Bloch
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $65.00
In the 1970s, renowned interior designer Juan Montoya lived on La Formentera, a Balearic Island off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Later, near Garrison, New York, Montoya acquired land and built his place of solace, his own La Formentera. He fulfilled his dream of a property that could evoke the same...
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