Architecture:

Ken Smith
Landscape Architect
Written by Ken Smith
Introduction by John Beardsley

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $50.00

Both a landscape designer and a public artist, Ken Smith produces designs that range in scale from small public installations to vast parks. He is known for inventive and imaginative gardens and landscapes, some of which use little or no natural plant material. His projects include public, commercial, and private work... Read more >

Inside Outside

Written by Petra Blaisse

Format: Hardcover, 504 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $65.00

Petra Blaisse and her firm, Inside Outside, specialize in the rare combination of interior and landscape design, interweaving architecture and context. Interior projects use materials that introduce visual effects such as color, flexibility, seasonal change, and movement and solve acoustic, climatic, shading, and spatial issues. Landscape projects reflect a fascination with... Read more >

Beatrix Farrand
Private Gardens, Public Landscapes
Written by Judith B. Tankard

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $60.00

Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for... Read more >

Olin
Placemaking
Written by Laurie Olin, Dennis C. McGlade, Robert J. Bedell, Lucinda R. Sanders and Susan K. Weiler

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $65.00

With increased attention to sustainability and environmental concerns, landscape architects now lead teams of urban planners and architects in developing new outdoor space and reconfiguring existing designs. As the preeminent landscape architecture firm in the United States, Olin is at the forefront of this movement with completed projects across the country... Read more >

East Anglian Village and Town Signs

Written by Ursula Bourne

Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95

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Follies

Written by Jeffrey W. Whitelaw

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95

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Mazes and Labyrinths

Written by Adrian Fisher

Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $12.95

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Shell Houses and Grottoes

Written by Hazelle Jackson

Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95

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Morocco
Courtyards and Gardens
Written by Achva Benzinberg Stein

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2007
Price: $50.00

In the North African land of Morocco, every dar-dwelling, religious institution, or commercial building is organized around an interior, walled courtyard that provides privacy from the bustle of urban streets and an outdoor space for social interaction and tranquil meditation. Over the course of centuries, ornamental schemes have evolved to incorporate... Read more >

Making the Modern Garden

Written by Christopher Bradley-Hole

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2007
Price: $45.00

A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as a fascinating collection of landscapes around the world, Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the... Read more >

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 >

Robert A. M. Stern
Houses and Gardens
Written by Robert A.M. Stern
Introduction by Witold Rybczynski

Format: Hardcover, 632 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2005
Price: $85.00

Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects... Read more >

Analyzing Ambasz

Written by Emilio Ambasz
Edited by Michael Sorkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2004
Price: $35.00

Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape -- high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. His highly original work defies easy categorization and analysis, and Ambasz has himself presented his... Read more >

Modernismo
Architecture and Design in Spain
Written by Borja De Riquer I Permanier

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2003
Price: $85.00

Catalan modernismo, a cultural and artistic style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was the Spanish equivalent of the Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau, the German Werkbund and the Viennese Secession. The common denominator of these movements was the ambition to develop a new concept of beauty... Read more >

Landscape Graphics

Written by Grant Reid

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2002
Price: $24.95

Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the... Read more >

Dumbarton Oaks

Written by Susan Tamulevich, Ping Amranand and Philip Johnson

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 15, 2002
Price: $65.00

The Dumbarton Oaks Research and Study Center in Washington, D.C., administered by Harvard University, is a famed museum and study center specializing in pre-Columbian art, Byzantine studies, and garden history and design. Long known for its museum pavilion, designed by the noted architect Philip Johnson, Dumbarton Oaks sits within one of... Read more >

Mirrors of Paradise
The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho
Written by Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor and Dan Kiley

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2000
Price: $65.00

Now back in stock, this highly sought after monograph represents the gardens and landscapes of the Spanish designer Fernando Caruncho. Renowned internationally for serene compositions based on timeless principles of natural forms and geometry, Caruncho has recently completed two landscapes in the United States, one in the rolling farmland of New... Read more >

Isamu Noguchi
A Study of Space
Written by Ana Maria Torres
Foreword by Shoji Sadao

Format: Hardcover, 300 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2000
Price: $75.00

Sculptor, garden designer, and architect, Isamu Noguchi throughout his long career designed exterior and interior spaces that deftly bring together influences from various disciplines. His conception of a "sculpture of space"—his most significant contribution to modern sculpture—was fundamental to these designs. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space is the first comprehensive... Read more >

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 >