1100 Architect1998-2006Contribution by Donald AlbrechtFormat: Hardcover 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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16 HousesWritten by Michael BellFormat: Hardcover On Sale: April 26, 2004 Price: $40.00 In April 1998, sixteen architecture firms were brought together to design single-family houses for the Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas, one of the country's lowest-income neighborhoods. Studio Works from Los Angeles, Lindy Roy from New York, Carlos Jimenez from Houston, and Stanley Saitowitz from San Francisco, among others, worked with the... |
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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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Analyzing AmbaszWritten by Emilio Ambasz, Edited by Michael SorkinFormat: Trade Paperback 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... |
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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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Architecture on ArchitectureWritten by Platt Byard Dovell White, Introduction by Kenneth FramptonFormat: Hardcover On Sale: June 1, 2007 Price: $40.00 Individually and in partnership, as architects, educators, and advocates, the four principals of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects have made an indelible impression on the contemporary and historic architecture of New York City and beyond. In projects that range from historic preservation--the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center in Central Park and... |
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Architecture Isn't Just for Special OccasionsKoning Eizenberg ArchitectureWritten by Julie EizenbergFormat: Hardcover On Sale: July 1, 2006 Price: $60.00 Urban and suburban living at the outset of the twenty-first century is characterized by myriad interlocking images and experiences. Large-scale social and economic forces lead to a fragmentary daily existence. How can architecture work with these trends -- rather than against them -- to improve the activities of everyday life? Such... |
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Blurred ZonesEisenman Architects, 1988-1998Written by Peter Eisenman, Contribution by Luis Galiano and K. Michael HaysFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: June 2, 2003 Price: $75.00 In the late 1980s, the New York-based office Eisenman Architects, led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman, shifted from an investigation of "artificial excavations" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called "blurring." Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect, that is... |
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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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CAC InvestigationYale 2000 Zaha HadidWritten by Nina RappaportFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: July 9, 2001 Price: $29.95 In spring 2000, as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, Zaha Hadid led an intense and wildly creative studio on the topic of the contemporary art center. Such centers are proliferating across the United States and around the world; yet their architectural form remains abstract and open-ended, subject to... |
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Carme PinosAn Architecture of OverlayWritten by Ana Maria TorresFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: April 26, 2004 Price: $45.00 Lyrical and evocative in both concept and form, the work of Catalan architect Carme Pinós is notable for its uncompromising embodiment of the physical, historic, and metaphoric qualities of its sites. Pinós explores the landscape personally, drawing from it a vocabulary of forms -- lines, planes, curves, arches, containers -- and... |
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CasablancaSketches from an Urban AdventureWritten by Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique ElebFormat: Hardcover On Sale: January 1, 2003 Price: $75.00 Casablanca is a city of international renown, not least because of its urban structures and features. Celebrated by colonial writers, filmed by Hollywood, magnet for Europeans and Moroccans, Casablanca is above all an exceptional collection of urban spaces, houses, and gardens. While it is true that Casablanca developed as a port... |
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Cass Gilbert, ArchitectWritten by Sharon IrishFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: April 1, 1999 Price: $45.00 American architect Cass Gilbert built many of the major monuments of his generation. Inspired by design throughout the ages -- ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and Renaissance Europe, and contemporary traditions such as the Richardsonian Romanesque -- he created buildings for the sites, clients, and programs of his own time. Gilbert... |
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The Charged VoidArchitectureWritten by Alison Smithson and Peter SmithsonFormat: Hardcover On Sale: May 21, 2001 Price: $85.00 Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the particularities and uniqueness of human associations, urban patterns, and climatic conditions. Many... |
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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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Charlotte PerriandA Life of CreationWritten by Charlotte PerriandFormat: Hardcover On Sale: November 10, 2003 Price: $40.00 In 1927, the French designer Charlotte Perriand -- then only twenty-four years old -- won instant acclaim for her design for the "Bar sous le toit" (bar in the garret), shown at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. The project brought her to the attention of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who... |
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The Chicago Architectural ClubWritten by Wilbert HasbrouckFormat: Hardcover On Sale: July 14, 2005 Price: $75.00 In the late nineteenth century, Chicago -- the birthplace of modern architecture in the United States -- was a magnet for aspiring architects. The city was forced to rebuild after the destruction wrought by the Great Fire of 1871 and also to expand to accommodate a surge in the population. The... |
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Code XWritten by Peter EisenmanFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: July 7, 2005 Price: $50.00 |
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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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Crib SheetsNotes on Contemporary Architectural ConversationEdited by Sylvia Lavin, Helene Furjan and Penelope DeanFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: November 17, 2005 Price: $40.00 Architectural discourse today is characterized by an overlapping conversation between architects and academics, teachers and students, theorists and practitioners. Certain terms -- "diagram, " "extreme form, " "autonomy, " and "the generic, " among others -- capture the moment in architecture in definition and in operation. Crib Sheets is a guide... |
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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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Education of an ArchitectThe Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, 1964-1971Written by John Hejduk, Contribution by Ulrich Franzen and Alberto Perez-GomezFormat: Hardcover On Sale: March 6, 2000 Price: $50.00 On November 13, 1971, the exhibition "Education of an Architect: A Point of View" -- featuring the work of Cooper Union student architects under the direction of the chairman of the Department of Architecture, John Hejduk, and the dean, George Sadek -- opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New... |
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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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Eisenman/KrierTwo IdeologiesEdited by Cynthia C. DavidsonFormat: Trade Paperback On Sale: May 19, 2005 Price: $35.00 In November 2002, the Yale School of Architecture hosted the symposium "Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies," a two-day analysis -- both celebratory and critical -- of architects Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier. Eisenman, with an office in New York, and Krier, based in southern France, represent two opposing views in architecture: the modern... |
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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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