Adolf LoosArchitecture 1903-1932Written by Roberto Schezen, Kenneth Frampton and Joseph RosaFormat: Hardcover 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... |
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The American StyleWritten by Donald Albrecht and Thomas MellinsFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 7, 2011 Price: $50.00 Easily the most recognizable architectural style in America, with its brick or shingled facades trimmed in white and ornamented with restrained classical detail, the Colonial Revival emerged in the late nineteenth century and is still the basis for classical design today. The American Style surveys the evolution of the Colonial Revival... |
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The Architecture of Natural LightWritten by Henry PlummerFormat: Hardcover On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $65.00 Shelter and natural light are fundamental elements of architecture. The first is concerned with protection from natural elements; the second with the creative and sometimes spiritual interaction between the man-made and the natural worlds. One is solid and static, the other illuminates and animates. Architects through the ages have preoccupied themselves with... |
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Building Up and Tearing DownReflections on the Age of ArchitectureWritten by Paul GoldbergerFormat: Hardcover 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... |
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The Charged VoidUrbanismWritten by Alison SmithsonFormat: Hardcover On Sale: March 17, 2005 Price: $65.00 The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings encapsulate urban ideas; urban systems are the means by which buildings function effectively. This second book collects... |
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CounterpointDaniel Libeskind in Conversation with Paul GoldbergerWritten by Daniel Libeskind and Paul GoldbergerFormat: Hardcover 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... |
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Delirious New YorkA Retroactive Manifesto for ManhattanWritten by Rem KoolhaasFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: December 1, 1997 Price: $35.00 Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts... |
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Edwin LutyensCountry HousesWritten by Gavin StampFormat: Hardcover 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... |
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Everyday UrbanismExpandedEdited by John Chase, Margaret Crawford and Kaliski JohnFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: December 23, 2008 Price: $45.00 First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily routines and neighborhood concerns and offer both... |
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Giuseppe TerragniTransformations, Decompositions, CritiquesWritten by Peter Eisenman, Contribution by Giuseppe Terragni and Manfredo TafuriFormat: Hardcover 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 --... |
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Glass HouseWritten by Philip Johnson and Toshio NakamuraFormat: Trade Paperback 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... |
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HarlemLost and FoundWritten by Michael Henry Adams, Photographed by Paul RocheleauFormat: Hardcover On Sale: December 3, 2001 Price: $65.00 Long identified with African-American style and culture, Harlem is also a pillar of New York's social and architectural history. In this beautifully illustrated study, historian Michael Henry Adams presents an evocative portrait of the various and divergent Harlems of yesteryear, from the Native American settlements discovered by the Dutch in the... |
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HavanaHistory and Architecture of a Romantic CityWritten by Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo, Prologue by Hugh Thomas, Translated by Lorna S. FoxFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 9, 2009 Price: $85.00 Havana, the legendary capital of Cuba, bears the traces of every stage of the island's rich history, from its indigenous traditions to the introduction of European culture in the late fifteenth century to the development of the unique amalgam of these influences that is unmistakably Cuban. In this exquisite volume, author... |
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Martha's VineyardContemporary LivingWritten by Keith Moskow and Robert LinnFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 25, 2010 Price: $50.00 Each year the pristine beaches, lush pine forests, and picturesque New England towns of Martha’s Vineyard draw tens of thousands of admirers to this beautiful island. Some of these visitors have become part-time residents, building contemporary homes alongside the traditional Victorian cottages, sea captains’ mansions, and colonial farmhouses that comprise the... |
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Ike Kligerman Barkley HousesWritten by Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects, Foreword by Robert A.M. SternFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 20, 2010 Price: $60.00 John Ike, Thomas Kligerman, and Joel Barkley speak architectural languages of the past with a sure command of grammar and syntax and a rich vocabulary of form and detail. As designers they build upon what went before to extend the trajectory of architecture. —Robert A. M. Stern The signature residential works of Ike... |
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Immaterial WorldTransparency in ArchitectureWritten by Marc KristalFormat: Hardcover On Sale: March 22, 2011 Price: $45.00 Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This unique survey of buildings and interiors captures the multilayered experience that is engaged whenever we look out of—or into—a work of architecture. Immaterial World examines the built environment as a reflection of... |
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Jim Olson HousesWritten by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, Introduction by Michael WebbFormat: Hardcover 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... |
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Krueck and SextonWork in ProgressWritten by Ronald Krueck and Mark Sexton, Introduction by Karen SteinFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: April 1, 1997 Price: $45.00 Ronald Krueck and Mark Sexton opened their Chicago-based office after working together since 1980. In a city where the spirit and legacy of Mies van der Rohe live on, Krueck & Sexton has simultaneously followed in the modern master's footsteps -- impeccable attention to elegant structural details and commitment to creating... |
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Lasting EleganceEnglish Country Houses 1830-1900Written by Michael HallFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 27, 2009 Price: $65.00 The great English country house tradition reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century. Designed by all the most eminent architects of the age, houses constructed during this period were larger, more elaborate, and more lavishly furnished than ever before, and they became famous throughout Europe and America for their luxury, technological... |
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Le CorbusierAnd the Continual Revolution in ArchitectureWritten by Charles JencksFormat: Hardcover On Sale: December 18, 2000 Price: $50.00 Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, city planning, and writing together compose a portrait of the architect as "protean creator." Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture is... |
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LinesNo Fire Could BurnWritten by John HejdukFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: April 1, 1999 Price: $17.50 Architect and educator John Hejduk has devoted his life work to creating worlds, not only in his analytic architecture but in his mission to change the structure of architectural education. Hejduk has always accompanied all facets of his work with a haunting poetic narrative. He conceives for his projects a literary... |
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Living WestNew Residential Architecture in Southern CaliforniaWritten by Sam LubellFormat: Hardcover On Sale: October 13, 2009 Price: $50.00 A dense concentration of design talent, uniquely varied topography, and one of the world’s most pleasant climates have made Southern California a crucible of architectural innovation. There, forward-looking clients respond to dramatic modern interpretations of form and site that capitalize on natural light and magnificent ocean views, perch delicately on steeply... |
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Lost VanguardRussian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932Written by Richard Pare, Introduction by Jean-Louis CohenFormat: Hardcover 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... |
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Marcel BreuerA MemoirWritten by Bob Gatje and Robert GatjeFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: September 11, 2000 Price: $40.00 Modern master Marcel Breuer, born in Hungary in 1902, studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar and later taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau; his earliest projects were two legendary chair designs and residential work in Germany. In 1937 he was invited by Walter Gropius to the Harvard Graduate School of Design... |
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Nature FramedAt Home in the LandscapeWritten by Eva HagbergFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 17, 2011 Price: $50.00 Twenty-five recent residential projects from around the United States take the concept of “green living” to the next architectural level. Going beyond the simple use of sustainable materials, these houses are designed to frame a very particular vision of nature for their owners that brings them as close as possible to nature... |
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