Architecture:

MAKE IT FABULOUS: The Architecture and Designs of William T. Georgis

Written by William T. Georgis, Donald Albrecht and Natalie Shivers

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $60.00

Sumptuous and scrupulous in equal measure, the work of William T. Georgis is a glamorous blend of high-style architecture and expressive, innovative applications of the traditions of the decorative arts. In the twenty years since he founded his namesake firm, Georgis has created a dazzling portfolio consisting primarily of houses and... Read more >

Albert Speer
Architecture 1932-1942
Written by Leon Krier
Preface by Robert A. M. Stern

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $75.00

Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.

First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid... Read more >

Evidence
The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects
Written by Robert A. M. Stern

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $50.00

Robert A. M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design process through this rich visual presentation of all types of his work: museums and cultural institutions, colleges and universities... Read more >

Thomas Heatherwick
Making
Written by Thomas Heatherwick

Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $75.00

The first retrospective publication on the work of award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick (the subject of a 2012 exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum) offers an in-depth look at all aspects of the innovator's creative, design, and manufacturing processes.

Heatherwick is known as one of the greatest innovators of our era... Read more >

Steven Ehrlich Houses

Written by Steven Ehrlich

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $50.00

Residential design forms the core of Steven Ehrlich's award-winning architectural practice. Sixteen houses are presented here, designs characterized by the fusion of powerful modernist forms with the cultural, climatic, and contextual particulars of place.
 
Ehrlich spent six years living, teaching, traveling, and studying indigenous vernacular architecture in North and... Read more >

Robert A. M. Stern
On Campus
Written by Robert A.M. Stern

Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: December 21, 2010
Price: $85.00

At its best, the college campus is the representation of beliefs, of the specific character of a place, of a community, of an institution. It is the setting for the continually evolving interaction of people and ideas over time. 
—Robert A. M. Stern

Ss an architect, educator, and architectural historian, Robert A...

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Rafael Moneo
Remarks on 21 Works
Written by Rafael Moneo

Format: Hardcover, 668 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $75.00

Rafael Moneo is a courageous architect, one who for decades has defined his own style of architecture. With a sensitivity to materials and context unmatched by any living architect, Moneo has created a series of important works, including the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston... Read more >

Robert A. M. Stern
Buildings & Projects 2004-2009
Written by Robert A.M. Stern and Paul Goldberger
Edited by Peter Morris Dixon

Format: Hardcover, 624 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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Between Silence and Light
Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn
Written by Louis I. Kahn and John Lobell

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $18.95

In the development of contemporary architecture, no one has had a greater influence than Louis I. Kahn, whose many buildings include the Salk Institute, the Yale Study Center, and the Exeter Library. He is remembered, however, not only as a master builder, but also as one of the most important and... Read more >

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: $22.99

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 >

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 >

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 >