Conversations with Frank Gehry
Written by Barbara Isenberg
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $40.00
An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights into the man and his work.
Gehry’s subjects range...
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1100 Architect
1998-2006
Contribution by Donald Albrecht
Format: Hardcover, 244 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2006
Price: $60.00
For more than twenty years, David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm, principals of 1100 Architect, have honed a distinctive architecture informed by proportion, materiality, light, and detail. The firm's designs do not adhere to any specific stylistic codes but do share an understated architectural signature: an elegance of proportion, an innovative yet...
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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...
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Modeling Messages
The Architect and the Model
Written by Karen Moon
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2005
Price: $39.95
The model is one of the oldest means of architectural representation and comes in an extravagant variety of forms, from miniaturizations of reality mesmerizing in their exactness to wildly energetic sculptural representations.
Modeling Messages: The Architect and the Model is a study of the contemporary model, American and international, and its...
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Morphosis- Diamond Ranch High School
Source Books in Architecture
Written by Jeffrey Kipnis, Todd Gannon and Thom Mayne
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2001
Price: $29.95
Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School presents a detailed story of the design and construction of a single building, Diamond Ranch High School by avant-garde California architecture firm Morphosis. The volume opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, founder and principal of Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize. The interview outlines...
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