Architecture

Softcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover. Features full color and black & white illustrations. Features the German design groups best work 1965-1997. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor bump to bottom right corner.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams/Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. An account of the design and contruction of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Prefaces by Thomas Krens and Juan Ignacio Vidarte. Color illustrations throughout. 211+ 1 pages.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 580 pages. 1965-1969: A Break from the Past, a Nod to the Future. The late 1960s, when a radical change took place in the fields of architecture and design, are the focus of this volume. Old values such as functionality, elegance, and faithfulness to materials, which had been relevant for nearly half a century, lost their importance and made space for the ideas of pop culture and the sociocritical experiments of a new generation of architects and designers who no longer wanted to live within the styles of their fathers and grandfathers. Groups of architects and designers like Archizoom and Archigram questioned long-established status symbols, fashion, and consumption and created provocative alternative designs, which were reflected in Anti and Radical Design. Volume VI in the domus series features designs by Joe Colombo, Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Olivier Mourgue, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Verner Panton, Kenzo Tange, Luigi Moretti, Oscar Niemeyer, and Gio Ponti.

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages. Debate and banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate and opinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astute commentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in the twentieth century. Philip Johnson's multifaceted career as an architect, curator, and collector extended from the early 1920s to his death in 2005. Captivated by the work of the European modernists Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Johnson assembled the seminal exhibition "Modern Architecture--International Exhibition" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932. Among his most notable achievements are the famous Glass House in Connecticut, designed for his own use, and the Seagram Building in New York, in association with Mies van der Rohe.Recognized as the dean of American architecture, Johnson had a profound influence on the next generation of architects, including Robert A. M. Stern. Stern has conducted a series of ten interviews with Johnson, each covering a decade of his life, that provide an illuminating assessment of a significant period of American architecture. No dj issued.

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Arts & Architecture Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages. Building in the hills is an enterprise full of unpleasant surprises and traps just waiting to snare the inexperienced. Arthur Levin, a structural engineer and architect who has been involved in more than 2,000 hillside projects, offers a distillation of his 35 years of experience that will help the uninitiated to avoid the otherwise inevitable pitfalls and traps. The book has many real life examples of the unexpected encounters with unstable land, surface drainage problems, subterranean water, demanding owners, uncooperative building inspectors, inexperienced contractors, and other examples of the author's triumphs and occasional enlightening failures. All of these brief histories are instructive and guaranteed to be of invaluable help to the first or second time hillside designer and builder. More than 110 line drawings illuminate the text.

Softcover. Notre Dame IN, Theatre Historical Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 40 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. A visual history of the design and building of the Earle Theatre in Philadelphia. Some of the world's biggest stars performed there in it's heyday. Old price sticker on rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. The Urban Millennium focuses upon the spatial adaptation of cities as a factor in urbanization. Konvitz explores how the evolution of city building strategies has accompanied and facilitated other aspects of urban development. By taking a long historical perspective, he shows that cities were more easily adapted to changing circumstances before and dur-ing the industrialization. Konvitz also draws out the implica-tions of his analysis for contemporary urban problems. He challenges many contemporary assumptions of architec-ture and city planning and suggests that we should learn to appreciate an ap-proach to building which allows for the continual modification of individual structures and districts, and which places more control over the environ-ment in the hands of the users. Blacked out name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Planning Association, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 441 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. Conventional planning techniques just aren't working in many rural and suburbanizing areas. Developments where people merely exist have replaced neighborhoods where people once thrived. Strip malls and checkerboard subdivisions prevail. Randall Arendt argues convincingly that this scenario is not inevitable. In Rural by Design he advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques to preserve open space and community character. He shows how developments all across America have used these techniques successfully. This book examines a broad spectrum of nitty-gritty design topics in a lively, readable style. Topics range from sewage disposal and farmland preservation to greenway planning for interconnected open space and the design of rural subdivision streets. The book includes numerous case examples of residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects that have used these innovative design techniques. And it takes an in-depth look at the design elements of the traditional town--and how to reinvent those elements in today's communities. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Oblong folio in color pictorial jacket; 208 pages most in color. The Templo Mayor precinct at Tenochtitlan in Mexico was an important center in Aztec ceremonial life, providing the setting for displays of highly-energized rituals. This book uses the latest archaeological research and cutting-edge computer-generated three-dimensional color imagery to reconstruct the spaces where these ritual dramas were played out. Through a series of isometric drawings and sections cut through buildings, the author has created a compelling reconstruction of how the temple looked, and how it evolved from a scatter of mud and thatch huts to become one of the most impressive urban complexes in the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 16 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as the Georgian Period edited by Professor William Rotch Ware. 224 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Process Architecture Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, large folio in dust jacket that has fading to spine and edges. First Edition In English and Japanese. Large (folio-size) compilation of the architectural drawings of prominent landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, who was associated with the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, UC Berkeley, the city of Jerusalem, Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington and many other famous sites. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, very good in slipcase, no dust jacket issued. Decorated red-brown Cloth and Beige Cloth Covers; book is clean and tight and interior bright; pictorial red-brown endpapers. 292 pages, 270 b/w photographs including frontispiece by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Features foreword, and Index with text divided into six parts titled as: "The Land and the People," "Cities and Towns," "Domestic Architecture of Coastal Georgia". Illustrated slipcase with rubbing and edgewear, light soil, starting to split at seams.

Hardcover. NY, Delano Greenidge Editions, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 396 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Guimard is the pre-eminent architect of Art Nouveau in France. He influenced French architecture and design in the first half of the 20th century. He was also the architect of a number of Paris Metro entrances. He was regarded as an architect who wielded the greatest influence on the popular imagination in Paris during the late 19th- and early 20th centuries.

Hardcover. Savannah, Beehive Press, 3rd pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions relating to the architecture and history of Savannah, Georgia. Clean, Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, 366 pages. Leather cover with raised bands and ornate decoration. Gilt all edges and marled endpapers. B&w frontispiece with tissue-guard and b&w and color illustrations with tissue guards throughout. Color illustrations on tipped-in plates. Rubbing and wear to cover edges and some light foxing throughout. Else a clean, good copy.

Softcover. Italy, Instituto E Museo Di Storia Della Scienza, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Foxing on edges and preliminary/back pages. Does not affect text or illustrations. Wrapper in good condition.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, several color plates and architectural drawings by Vitale. Foreword by Horace Havemeyer III. Ferruccio Vitale is America's forgotten landscape architect. Though his works like Skylands and Longwood Gardens are well known, his name has been eclipsed by his contemporary, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Yet Vitale's influence on the modern direction of landscape design and his promotion of it as a profession is arguably more significant than Olmsted's. His unique designs and philosophy, which challenged the then-dominant pictorial mode of landscape architecture, influenced generations of followers, and is still felt today. Vitale (1875-1933) developed his rationale designs, based on the principles of composition from the fine arts and architecture, in both civic commissions and, most notably, at the country estates of captains of industry and finance. He introduced an idealized and abstracted type of formal design that created beautiful spaces, structured large sites, and reflected informal and relaxed plant compositions. Ferruccio Vitale tours over 40 of his masterworks, photographed by some of the best landscape photographers of the time, including Samuel Gottscho. It recounts the compelling story of a life in the early twentieth century, influenced by immigrant dreams, social clubs, and professional connections, and its culmination in some of the greatest landscapes of the 20th century.

Hardcover. NY, Monacelli, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Driving the glossy shelter magazines -- Architectural Digest, House and Garden, and many more -- is an enduring fascination with other people's lives and houses. But the pristine photographs in these publications do not represent reality. In his "Households" series, artist and architect Mark Robbins has invented the "flip side" of interior design magazines: a compelling series of photographs of actual people in actual homes. A young family at a writers retreat, a gay couple in a Long Island beach house, a husband and wife in a family compound, a single parent in a city apartment: Robbins has photographed residents and environments that comment on contemporary life and relationships. Robbins's design and photography work, which bridges the fields of art and architecture, has long focused on the complex social and political forces that contribute to the built environment. The thoughtfully arranged compositions reinforce, undermine, and even confuse stereotypes; the collection as a whole comments on present-day customs and ways of life in all their complexity.

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 6th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Softcover. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout including interiors and exteriors of projects, as well as blue prints. Red endpapers. Cover boards bound in charcoal cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Top edge has some light soil. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, IL, in the 1890's to his daring creations of the 1940's and 1950's.

Hardcover. Periplus Editions, 1st, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 224 pages illustrated in color. The New Malaysian House is a collection of 25 contemporary houses that demonstrate a remarkable flowering of Malaysian design talent that has been germinating since the mid- 1980s. The houses range from luxury detached bungalows set in extensive tropical gardens to weekend retreats in the forest, from the gated communities springing up throughout Malaysia to extended family homes. All are distinguished by a singular quality of innovative design as the architects sought to explore new approaches for designing with the climate and in the cultural context of Malaysia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli], 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages, color illustrations throughout. The first book from award-winning interior design and architecture firm Workshop/APD with projects ranging from sleek Manhattan apartments to Shingle Style getaways. Since its founding by Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman, Workshop/APD has perfected a unique amalgam of traditional warmth and contemporary simplicity. All of their projects, whether a modern yet cozy Manhattan pied-a-terre or a surprisingly streamlined Shingle Style compound in Nantucket, strike an exquisite balance between architectural brilliance and decorative expressiveness. The architecture and interior design Workshop/APD represent a cleanly tailored and brightly hued modernity, with all the embellishments of refined and luxurious decoration. In every project, high tech and hand finishing are applied to exquisite details and fine materials and finishes, resulting in one-of-a-kind designs that are meticulously crafted, inviting, and intentional. Clean. bright copy. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 260 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Covers all aspects of zoning, mapping, urban renewal, planned communities, land-use strategies, standards for street furniture, lighting, signs, community participation, preservation movement, transportation. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages illustrated in color. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, meanings, functions, and techniques of Mesoamerican architecture, and then proceeds to survey the historical development of the builder's art in each of the region's cultural areas. As readers travel from the Maya heartland of Guatemala and the Yucatan to the Aztec stronghold of the Valley of Mexico, and all the way to the northern hinterlands of Mesoamerica, they will gain an appreciation of both the unity and the diversity of the region's architecture. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 6 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 239 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages with b&w photos and diagrams. Common features of these barns include a core structure composed of a steep gabled roof, supported by purlin plates and anchor beam posts, the floor and stone piers below. Another distinctive feature of the Dutch barn is that the ends of the cross beams protrude through the columns. These protrusions are often rounded to form tongues. This feature is not found in any other style of barn design. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding.

Hardcover. Layton UT, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 230 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Like new condition in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 205 pages, illustrated throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. An examination of rooftop designs for living spaces, conservatories, studios, conference rooms, tea houses, and pool rooms includes floor plans and discusses building and zoning codes

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Like-new.

Hardcover. Bologna, Calderini, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 pages. ITALIAN TEXT. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing to pages, Edge wear on cover boards, otherwise clean tight copy. Dust jacket small tears on rear.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Art New York, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The prominent Genovese architect Renzo Piano--recipient of the 1998 Pritzker Award and architect of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Morgan Library renovations, as well as the new New York Times building--has just completed a new and unusual museum building--the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. The center, says Piano, is dedicated to the "poet of silence," and thus it was fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the "Museum Street" serving as a path within the complex. The three structures make up a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture whose roofs are supported by innovative steel construction. Includes photographs, design sketches, plans and models--a living image of a magnificent building.

Softcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, softcover edition. Edited by Sarah Mollman Underhill. Introductory Essay by Stanley Tigerman. Afterword by John Hejduk. Illustrated with color and black-and-white drawings, photographs and plans.

Hardcover. New York , Monacelli, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated with color plates, additional drawings and plans. Very good hardcover in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli International, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages, illustrations in color and b/w. Photography by Roberto Schezen. This was the first book to present all of Loos's 180 works and an essay on this architect's relation to the society of his time. Embossed stamp to prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Penguin Books, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 234 pages, 192 b/w plates, glossary, bibliography. Describes the architecture of the period that stretches from the Early Renaissance to the post-Waterloo Greek and Gothic Revivals. Among the great names of those centuries were Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, and John Nash. During the same period were built Hampton Court, Hatfield, the new St Paul's, the City Churches, the graceful London Squares, and the crescents and terraces of Bath. In addition to the main text there are two long appendices, one on Scottish architecture and the other on the architecture c f the Thirteen Colonies. Numerous plans, the majority of which have been especially drawn for this book, and over three hundred half-tone illustrations form an integral part of the author's account. Clean copy.

Softcover. Brattleboro VT, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 59 pages with bibliography. B&w photos, 5 landscape planns laid in rear pocket. Traveling exhibition featuring the work of Beatrix Farrand; Fletcher Steele; James Rose; A. E. Bye; and Dan Kiley.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardecover in a bright dust jacket, 492 pages. In a letter to Sir Thomas Browne about his proposed magnum opus on gardens, John Evelyn stated his purpose: "to refine upon some particulars, especially concerning the ornaments of Gardens, which I shal endeavor so to handle that persons of all conditions and faculties, which delight in Gardens, may therein encounter something for their owne advantage."In his Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens, Evelyn indeed produced a rich document, an assemblage of the horticultural knowledge and wisdom of the seventeenth century. An intriguing intellectual whom many have called a virtuoso, Evelyn was a garden designer, a noted author and translator of garden books, and a founding member of the Royal Society in 1660, where experimental science was at the heart of intellectual debate. Interlacing in his work practical, literary, and philosophical approaches to landscape architecture, Evelyn created the first large-scale encyclopedic work on the science and art of gardening. Evelyn never saw his great work published. Until now, the entire Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens has never appeared in print. In an impressive transcription, John E. Ingram makes the document--of which only a single folio volume remains--accessible to a wide range of scholars. Complete with Evelyn's extensive marginalia, interlineations, and tipped-in addenda, the manuscript is expertly organized by Ingram to preserve the meaningful complexity of Evelyn's original. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 3 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 248 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Softcover. Wilsonville OR, Beautiful America Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages with bibliography; index to architects, and index to houses. With more than 180 beautifully reproduced color photographs and additional drawings this is a comprehensive survey the East Coast mansions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 384 pages. Title page and copyright pages state 1954, but no price on flap. Neutra was a city planner and 20th century modern architect. 'He advocates design 'for life' and health, especially mental health. Design must be adapted to actual living processes. It can harm or help them...' Light tape repair to reverse of dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, A&C Black Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 487 pages. Oversized book. Black & white photography of English architecture. Light spinewear. Dust jacket with soiling and chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine.

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli Press, Inc., 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Dust jacket with fading along spine and edges. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 606 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1st Edition, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 495 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name and info on front flyleaf. Gray, decorated cover boards with blind stamped design on front cover board. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. Binding good. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has some damage to front flap and agewear. Abundantly illustrated with his own photographs and many of his own drawings, Mr. Engel asserts his creative imagination as a designer, his analytical mind as a scholar, and his intuitive insight as a teacher and a writer. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Lavish and marvelous pictorial on movie theatres and how movies were presented including the publicity and all the hoopla that surrounded the movie going experience from the first nickelodeons to the majestic movie palaces and all the wonderful small neighborhood theatres. Loaded with 100's of b&w photos publicity material and more with many color photos.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: N, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 792 pages. This volume covers the second half of the 1970s, an era marked by the oil crisis and the related global economic crisis. For the first time, architecture and design dealt with alternative resources, ecological building methods, and recyclable materials. Nevertheless synthetics remained present in many fields, especially in interior design. Examples of projects featured are the postmodern and lightflooded buildings by Richard Meier, the modernistic buildings by Foster Associates, the Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and the buildings of the Japanese architects Arata Isozaki and Kisho Kurakawa. The industrial design of modern transport systems, office machines, and electrical appliances is also highlighted.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. One of the great architects of our time, Frank Gehry has revolutionized the use of materials in design and redefined how architects use computers as a design tool to advance form-making as we know it. He has achieved worldwide fame for such large-scale public projects as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, but it was in private houses that Gehry first explored and interrogated the principles of modern architecture. In these houses--most notably his own, in Santa Monica, California--Gehry distorted, expanded, and collapsed the modernist box, exploring everyday materials (corrugated metal, unfinished plywood, and chain link), experimenting with color, and challenging accepted notions about geometry and structure. In houses such as the Schnabel House in Brentwood, California, and the Winton Guest House in Wayzata, Minnesota, he experimented with collage and assemblage. More recently, Gehry's work has taken on sculptural forms, aided by new structural and geometric potentials of digital design, as in the near-legendary Lewis House in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Color photographs, sketches, and plans create an illuminating visual record of some of the most groundbreaking, seminal projects of Gehry's oeuvre. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.