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Robert A. M. Stern
Buildings & Projects 2004-2009
Written by Robert A.M. Stern and Paul Goldberger
Edited by Peter Morris Dixon
Format: Hardcover, 648 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $75.00
I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, “appropriate.” Appropriate from every point of view, especially from... Read more >
Buildings & Projects 2004-2009
Written by Robert A.M. Stern and Paul Goldberger
Edited by Peter Morris Dixon
Format: Hardcover, 648 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $75.00
I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, “appropriate.” Appropriate from every point of view, especially from... Read more >
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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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SOM
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1950-1962
Commentaries by Ernst Danz
Introduction by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $45.00
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, 1950-1962
Commentaries by Ernst Danz
Introduction by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $45.00
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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SOM
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1963-1973
Commentaries by Axel Menges
Introduction by Arthur Drexler
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
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, 1963-1973
Commentaries by Axel Menges
Introduction by Arthur Drexler
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00
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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SOM
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1973-1983
Introduction by Albert Bush-Brown
Format: Hardcover, 288 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, 1973-1983
Introduction by Albert Bush-Brown
Format: Hardcover, 288 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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SOM
Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1984-1996
Introduction by Detlef Mertins
Format: Hardcover, 224 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, 1984-1996
Introduction by Detlef Mertins
Format: Hardcover, 224 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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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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Selldorf Architects
Written by Annabelle Selldorf
Introduction by Jane Withers
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $50.00
The work of Selldorf Architects is known for its clarity of distribution, elegant proportions, deliberate rendering of light, and integrity of structure. This monograph, the first published on the firm, concentrates on twenty major projects from institutional, commercial, high-end retail, residential, and art-related spaces.
Projects featured include the acclaimed Neue Galerie... Read more >
Written by Annabelle Selldorf
Introduction by Jane Withers
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $50.00
The work of Selldorf Architects is known for its clarity of distribution, elegant proportions, deliberate rendering of light, and integrity of structure. This monograph, the first published on the firm, concentrates on twenty major projects from institutional, commercial, high-end retail, residential, and art-related spaces.
Projects featured include the acclaimed Neue Galerie... Read more >
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Framework
Gluckman Mayner Architects
Written by Richard Gluckman
Introduction by Detlef Mertins
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $50.00
Richard Gluckman is an architect who creates spaces comparable to minimalist art. His careful consideration of the basic components of architecture—structure, scale, proportion, material, and light—produces buildings and interiors that heighten the perception of physical space and what is contained in that space. Subtle design elements, all drawn from a vocabulary... Read more >
Gluckman Mayner Architects
Written by Richard Gluckman
Introduction by Detlef Mertins
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $50.00
Richard Gluckman is an architect who creates spaces comparable to minimalist art. His careful consideration of the basic components of architecture—structure, scale, proportion, material, and light—produces buildings and interiors that heighten the perception of physical space and what is contained in that space. Subtle design elements, all drawn from a vocabulary... Read more >
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Sverre Fehn
The Pattern of Thoughts
Written by Per Olaf Fjeld
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $75.00
As recipient of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize—the profession’s highest honor—Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. His projects, often described as being instilled with a human quality, include the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and the... Read more >
The Pattern of Thoughts
Written by Per Olaf Fjeld
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Price: $75.00
As recipient of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize—the profession’s highest honor—Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. His projects, often described as being instilled with a human quality, include the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and the... Read more >
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Adolf Loos
Architecture 1903-1932
Written by Roberto Schezen, Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rosa
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $45.00
Adolf Loos not only was part of the first wave of modern architecture but also served as an important source of inspiration for all architects who followed. He is emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the... Read more >
Architecture 1903-1932
Written by Roberto Schezen, Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rosa
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $45.00
Adolf Loos not only was part of the first wave of modern architecture but also served as an important source of inspiration for all architects who followed. He is emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the... Read more >
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Edwin Lutyens
Country Houses
Written by Gavin Stamp
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $65.00
Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired... Read more >
Country Houses
Written by Gavin Stamp
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $65.00
Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired... Read more >
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Counterpoint
Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
Written by Daniel Libeskind and Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $60.00
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and... Read more >
Daniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul Goldberger
Written by Daniel Libeskind and Paul Goldberger
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $60.00
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world—major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and... Read more >
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The Philip Johnson Tapes
Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $40.00
Debate and banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate and opinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astute commentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in the twentieth century.
Philip Johnson's multifaceted career as an architect, curator, and collector extended from the early... Read more >
Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $40.00
Debate and banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate and opinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astute commentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in the twentieth century.
Philip Johnson's multifaceted career as an architect, curator, and collector extended from the early... Read more >
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The Colors of Nature
Subtropical Gardens by Raymond Jungles
Written by Raymond Jungles
Foreword by Terence Riley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $50.00
In exquisite gardens inspired by the lush native plants of his adopted home of Miami, landscape artist/architect Raymond Jungles uses nature as a means of self-expression. He is known for modernist groupings of geometric shapes, which highlight the natural aspects of plantings, water features, and native stone. His use of plants... Read more >
Subtropical Gardens by Raymond Jungles
Written by Raymond Jungles
Foreword by Terence Riley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $50.00
In exquisite gardens inspired by the lush native plants of his adopted home of Miami, landscape artist/architect Raymond Jungles uses nature as a means of self-expression. He is known for modernist groupings of geometric shapes, which highlight the natural aspects of plantings, water features, and native stone. His use of plants... Read more >
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Toshiko Mori Architect
Written by Toshiko Mori
Foreword by K. Michael Hays
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2008
Price: $50.00
Founded in New York City in 1981, Toshiko Mori Architect is known for using both new and traditional materials and for integrating architecture with light and landscape. This monograph, the first on the practice, includes more than twenty-five residential, cultural, institutional, and commercial projects.
The firm has designed private houses in... Read more >
Written by Toshiko Mori
Foreword by K. Michael Hays
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2008
Price: $50.00
Founded in New York City in 1981, Toshiko Mori Architect is known for using both new and traditional materials and for integrating architecture with light and landscape. This monograph, the first on the practice, includes more than twenty-five residential, cultural, institutional, and commercial projects.
The firm has designed private houses in... Read more >
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Joseph Paxton
Written by John Anthony
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Written by John Anthony
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
Read more >
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Sir Edwin Lutyens
Written by Michael Barker
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Written by Michael Barker
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95
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Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Written by Franklin Toker
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
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 >
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Written by Franklin Toker
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $25.00
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 >
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Robert A. M. Stern
Buildings and Towns
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Introduction by Vincent Scully
Format: Hardcover, 548 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2007
Price: $85.00
Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational... Read more >
Buildings and Towns
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Introduction by Vincent Scully
Format: Hardcover, 548 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2007
Price: $85.00
Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational... Read more >
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Renzo Piano Museums
Written by Renzo Piano
Contribution by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Hardcover, 214 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $60.00
Creating space for the display of works of art has intrigued Renzo Piano throughout his thirty-five years of architectural practice. Today he is acknowledged the pre-eminent designer in this field, entrusted with the collections of the most distinguished art institutions in the world.
Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen... Read more >
Written by Renzo Piano
Contribution by Victoria Newhouse
Format: Hardcover, 214 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $60.00
Creating space for the display of works of art has intrigued Renzo Piano throughout his thirty-five years of architectural practice. Today he is acknowledged the pre-eminent designer in this field, entrusted with the collections of the most distinguished art institutions in the world.
Renzo Piano Museums presents a portfolio of eighteen... Read more >
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Working
20 Projects in Process
Written by Enrique Norten
Introduction by Dejan Sudjic
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
Since TEN Arquitectos was first published in 1998, the firm founded by Enrique Norten has soared to a position of international renown. In addition to important competition-winning proposals--the Visual and Performing Arts Library in Brooklyn and the Guggenheim Guadalajara, among others--Norten and his firm have a rich variety of projects on... Read more >
20 Projects in Process
Written by Enrique Norten
Introduction by Dejan Sudjic
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $45.00
Since TEN Arquitectos was first published in 1998, the firm founded by Enrique Norten has soared to a position of international renown. In addition to important competition-winning proposals--the Visual and Performing Arts Library in Brooklyn and the Guggenheim Guadalajara, among others--Norten and his firm have a rich variety of projects on... Read more >
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Glass House
Written by Philip Johnson and Toshio Nakamura
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2007
Price: $95.00
The Glass House, designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson as a personal retreat, is an icon of modern architecture. A crystalline box set in a serene New England landscape, the house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will open it to visitors in April 2007. Johnson... Read more >
Written by Philip Johnson and Toshio Nakamura
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2007
Price: $95.00
The Glass House, designed by celebrated architect Philip Johnson as a personal retreat, is an icon of modern architecture. A crystalline box set in a serene New England landscape, the house is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will open it to visitors in April 2007. Johnson... 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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Architecture Isn't Just for Special Occasions
Koning Eizenberg Architecture
Written by Julie Eizenberg
Format: Hardcover, 357 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $60.00
Urban and suburban living at the outset of the twenty-first century is characterized by myriad interlocking images and experiences. Large-scale social and economic forces lead to a fragmentary daily existence. How can architecture work with these trends -- rather than against them -- to improve the activities of everyday life?
Such... Read more >
Koning Eizenberg Architecture
Written by Julie Eizenberg
Format: Hardcover, 357 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $60.00
Urban and suburban living at the outset of the twenty-first century is characterized by myriad interlocking images and experiences. Large-scale social and economic forces lead to a fragmentary daily existence. How can architecture work with these trends -- rather than against them -- to improve the activities of everyday life?
Such... Read more >
