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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: $15.99
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: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.99
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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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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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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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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 >
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 >
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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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