Makers of Modern Architecture
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry
Written by Martin Filler
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $27.95
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...
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The Art-Architecture Complex
Written by Hal Foster
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 23, 2013
Price: $24.95
Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed
Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. He identifies a “global style” of architecture—as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano—analogous to the international style of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies.
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Barcelona The Great Enchantress
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In
Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metropolis, one of...
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Brilliant
White in Design
Written by Linda O'Keeffe
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $50.00
It all begins and ends with white.
White is everywhere, from sculptures and art installations to interior and furniture designs to fields of snow and mythical animals. In its countless tones—eggshell, ballerina, off-white, edelweiss, and so many more—white elicits a range of emotions, depending on the viewer, the design, the culture...
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How to Decorate
The Best of Martha Stewart Living
Written by Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: August 20, 1996
Price: $20.00
The editors of Martha Stewart Living, one of America's most successful home living magazines, have gathered in one convenient place the stories and projects that have defined their approach to decorating the home. The book is organized in a fresh and sensible way, looking at how the rooms are actually used...
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
Treasures from the Driehaus Collection
Written by David A. Hanks
Preface by Richard H. Driehaus
Photographed by John Faier
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $45.00
A seminal artist of the Gilded Age, Louis Comfort Tiffany is the best known and most widely collected figure in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American decorative arts. The splendid objects from the Driehaus Collection, installed as the inaugural exhibition of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, showcase a wide variety of Tiffany’s...
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Albert Speer
Architecture 1932-1942
Written by Leon Krier
Preface by Robert A. M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $75.00
Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.
First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception,
Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid...
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The Pentagon
A History
Written by Steve Vogel
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $18.00
The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived and built an institution that ranks with the White...
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Carrot City
Creating Places for Urban Agriculture
Written by Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $50.00
Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce urban agriculture to our cities. Focusing on the need and desire to grow food within the city to supply food from local sources, the contributions of architecture, landscape design...
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