Building The Dream

Written by Gwendolyn Wright

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $19.99

For Gwendolyn Wright, the houses of America are the diaries of the American people. They create a fascinating chronicle of the way we have lived, and a reflection of every political, economic, or social issue we have been concerned with. Why did plantation owners build uniform cabins for their slaves? Why were... Read more >

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... Read more >

The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Written by Bernard Tschumi

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2004
Price: $29.95

In March 2003, Bernard Tschumi convened forty of the world's leading architectural designers and theorists -- Elizabeth Diller, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Rem Koolhaas, Greg Lynn, Winy Maas, Thom Mayne, Ben van Berkel, Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and many others -- for a conference at Columbia University. The exceptional... Read more >

Architectural Sketching and Rendering
Techniques for Designers and Artists
Edited by Stephen Kliment

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $24.99

Do you want to become more confident sketching buildings with a pencil or pen? How about refining your skill in rendering the projects you are designing? Whether you are a designer, an architect, an artist or a student interested in architecture, this volume, filled with a broad range of sketching and... Read more >

Building Suburbia
Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Written by Dolores Hayden

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $18.00

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 >

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 >

Contemporary Follies

Written by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $40.00

Contemporary Follies showcases outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature. Emerging from the Enlightenment spirit of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson, the English picturesque folly, and the forest retreats of Scandinavian modernists, these projects inspire contemplation and creativity in their spatial energy and alliance with the environment... Read more >

Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Written by Franklin Toker

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2005
Price: $28.95

Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.

When he got the... Read more >

Feng-Shui

Written by Eva Wong

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 15, 1996
Price: $29.95

     The first complete, in-depth course in the traditional Chinese art of harmonious design for interiors, buildings, and sites—including instructions for making your own geomantic compass for feng-shui readings. Deeply rooted in Taoist and shamanic origins, feng-shui is not simply a list of directives for building auspicious structures or arranging interiors for... Read more >

Monochrome

Written by Paula Rice Jackson
Introduction by John F. Saladino

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $50.00

More than any other element of interior design, color sets the mood of a room. Once the palette is limited to a single color, the effect can be dramatic and powerful or sublime. Monochrome features projects by more than twenty internationally known interior designers who have created rooms based around one... Read more >