17 books in Architecture - Criticism
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Hearts of the City
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... Read more >
The Selected Writings of Herbert Muschamp
Written by Herbert Muschamp
Introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Format: Hardcover, 912 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s views were both ahead of their... 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 Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.00
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.00
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... 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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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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Tschumi on Architecture
Conversations with Enrique Walker
Written by Bernard Tschumi and Enrique Walker
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2006
Price: $29.95
Architect and educator Bernard Tschumi is one of the most influential figures in architectural theory and practice. This fascinating volume presents, in a sequence of ten “conversations,” his autobiography in architecture, from his conceptual proposals of the early 1970s through his major current buildings and projects. Tschumi approaches his work as... Read more >
Conversations with Enrique Walker
Written by Bernard Tschumi and Enrique Walker
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2006
Price: $29.95
Architect and educator Bernard Tschumi is one of the most influential figures in architectural theory and practice. This fascinating volume presents, in a sequence of ten “conversations,” his autobiography in architecture, from his conceptual proposals of the early 1970s through his major current buildings and projects. Tschumi approaches his work as... Read more >
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The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.
And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from... Read more >
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Patkau Architects
Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2006
Price: $60.00
The firm of Patkau Architects, founded in 1978 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has achieved international renown for work that draws on the principles of modern architecture and is simultaneously inspired by the traditions and often spectacular landscape of the Pacific Northwest. The office is known for a straightforward, multifaceted... Read more >
Introduction by Kenneth Frampton
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2006
Price: $60.00
The firm of Patkau Architects, founded in 1978 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has achieved international renown for work that draws on the principles of modern architecture and is simultaneously inspired by the traditions and often spectacular landscape of the Pacific Northwest. The office is known for a straightforward, multifaceted... Read more >
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L.A. 2000+
New Architecture in Los Angeles
Written by John Leighton Chase
Format: Hardcover, 223 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2006
Price: $50.00
Los Angeles is a breeding ground for adventurous experimental architects and a magnet for their high-profile clients. L.A. 2000+ assembles the best work completed in the city since 2000, offering a snapshot of the region and its architecture at the dawn of the twenty-first century. From the widely celebrated Walt Disney... Read more >
New Architecture in Los Angeles
Written by John Leighton Chase
Format: Hardcover, 223 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2006
Price: $50.00
Los Angeles is a breeding ground for adventurous experimental architects and a magnet for their high-profile clients. L.A. 2000+ assembles the best work completed in the city since 2000, offering a snapshot of the region and its architecture at the dawn of the twenty-first century. From the widely celebrated Walt Disney... Read more >
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Eisenman/Krier
Two Ideologies
Edited by Cynthia C. Davidson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2005
Price: $35.00
In November 2002, the Yale School of Architecture hosted the symposium "Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies," a two-day analysis -- both celebratory and critical -- of architects Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier. Eisenman, with an office in New York, and Krier, based in southern France, represent two opposing views in architecture: the modern... Read more >
Two Ideologies
Edited by Cynthia C. Davidson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2005
Price: $35.00
In November 2002, the Yale School of Architecture hosted the symposium "Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies," a two-day analysis -- both celebratory and critical -- of architects Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier. Eisenman, with an office in New York, and Krier, based in southern France, represent two opposing views in architecture: the modern... Read more >
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The Charged Void
Urbanism
Written by Alison Smithson
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2005
Price: $65.00
The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings encapsulate urban ideas; urban systems are the means by which buildings function effectively. This second book collects... Read more >
Urbanism
Written by Alison Smithson
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2005
Price: $65.00
The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings encapsulate urban ideas; urban systems are the means by which buildings function effectively. This second book collects... Read more >
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The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Written by Bernard Tschumi
Format: Hardcover, 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 >
Written by Bernard Tschumi
Format: Hardcover, 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 >
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Giuseppe Terragni
Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques
Written by Peter Eisenman
Contribution by Giuseppe Terragni and Manfredo Tafuri
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2003
Price: $75.00
Forty years in the making, Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study -- illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs --... Read more >
Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques
Written by Peter Eisenman
Contribution by Giuseppe Terragni and Manfredo Tafuri
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2003
Price: $75.00
Forty years in the making, Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques documents and investigates two of Italian rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni's masterworks: the Casa del Fascio (1933-36) and the Casa Giuliani-Frigerio (1939-40), both in Como. This far-reaching study -- illustrated with more than five hundred original architectural diagrams and archival photographs --... Read more >
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Casablanca
Sketches from an Urban Adventure
Written by Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $75.00
Casablanca is a city of international renown, not least because of its urban structures and features. Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port... Read more >
Sketches from an Urban Adventure
Written by Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2003
Price: $75.00
Casablanca is a city of international renown, not least because of its urban structures and features. Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port... Read more >
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The Light Construction Reader
Written by Jeffrey Kipnis and Todd Gannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2002
Price: $45.00
The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to... Read more >
Written by Jeffrey Kipnis and Todd Gannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2002
Price: $45.00
The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to... Read more >
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The Charged Void
Architecture
Written by Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2001
Price: $85.00
Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the particularities and uniqueness of human associations, urban patterns, and climatic conditions. Many... Read more >
Architecture
Written by Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2001
Price: $85.00
Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the particularities and uniqueness of human associations, urban patterns, and climatic conditions. Many... Read more >
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On Distant Shores
Colonial Houses Around the World
Written by Ovidio Guaita
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2000
Price: $65.00
From the era of Christopher Columbus, and even earlier, colonists left their home countries to venture to far-away lands. As they settled permanently into outposts in the farthest reaches of the globe, the colonists built residences that combined the architecture of their countries of origin with the design characteristics of their... Read more >
Colonial Houses Around the World
Written by Ovidio Guaita
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2000
Price: $65.00
From the era of Christopher Columbus, and even earlier, colonists left their home countries to venture to far-away lands. As they settled permanently into outposts in the farthest reaches of the globe, the colonists built residences that combined the architecture of their countries of origin with the design characteristics of their... Read more >
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