Architecture

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 200 illustrations in color. Foreword by Jennifer B. Lee, Performing Arts Curator, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Index. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Joseph Urban is a lavish celebration of this prolific artist, architect, and designer, whose accomplishments include magnificent Art Deco buildings, spectacular Ziegfeld Follies productions, and dramatic sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Joseph Urban (1872-1933) began his career as an architect and artist in Vienna before moving to America in 1911. In 1914 he moved to New York, where he ultimately signed on as set designer of the Metropolitan Opera. He also became immersed in an astonishing array of outside projects, designing nightclubs, hotel lounges, skyscrapers, theaters, stage and film sets, and even children's books. Though his creative output was immense, little remains of his work except the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, and the New School and the base of the Hearst Tower in New York.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages, Color photos by Ara Guller. Sinan was the greatest architect of the Ottoman Golden Age of the sixteenth century when the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith of power and magnificence. His style marks the apogee of Turkish art. Under Sleyman the Magnificent and his succcessor Selmi II, Sinan designed hundreds of buildings: mosques, palaces, tombs, mausolea, hospitals, schools, caravanserai, bridges, aqueducts and baths, many of them presented and analysed in this book. In his greatest works, he adapted Byzantine and Islamic styles to produce something quite new: a centralized organization of absolute space unhindered by pillars or columns and covered by a soaring dome. An architect of genius in a dynamic new empire expanding into both Asia and Europe, he was a true man of the Renaissance. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Thousand Oaks CA, Sage Publications, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 182 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1960, Kevin Lynch wrote The Image of the City, which transformed the way design professionals and social scientists dealt with the urban form and design. The Evaluative Image of the City follows the work of Lynch and further explores the role of human evaluations of the cityscape. This book describes how to assess, plan, and design the appearance of cities to please inhabitants. It presents a series of studies on evaluative images, discusses methodologies, findings, and applications to design and planning at various stages. Urban designers and planners, architects, business people, and the general public will find this book a valuable guide for improving the image of their surroundings. Clean copy.

Softcover. Yucatan, Mexico, Dante, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Softcover with French flaps. B/w illustrations throughout. Touch of agewear to covers, a little foxing to top edge, otherwise clean inside. In very good condition.

Softcover. Portland ME, Greater Portland Landmarks, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 223 pages. Many black and white photographs throughout. A monograph survey of the architecture of John Calvin Stevens, an American architect known for his Shingle Style. While known for this style, this work looks at his work from 1890 to 1930, where he designed houses in Craftsman, Prairie School and Colonial Revival styles. Commentary on the designs throughout. Forty seven of these distinctive homes are illustrated by 135 period photographs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 4th pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages illustrated in b&w. Foreword by Charles A. Blessing. Voluminously illustrated by the author with drawings and plans. Bibliography. Index. This book traces the history of urban design to date. The monograph has become a classic.

Hardcover. Thomas Jefferson Foundation, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 80 pages. Each year approximately 500,000 people journey up the winding, narrow road from Charlottesville, Virginia, to visit Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. In 1990 a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) made this same journey to record Jefferson's residence inside and out. Monticello in Measured Drawings presents HABS' unique set of plan, elevations, sections, and details of the house as it was actually built. They expose many of Monticello's behind-the-scenes mysteries. Seeral reveal the house's complex facade, while others details the relationship of individual floors and the fascinating array of architectural elements found throughout the house.

Hardcover. NY, Public Affairs, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 329 pages. When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater grasses of the marsh that fatefully once sat beneath the site of Number 239 East 7th Street.During the journey, Greider examines how people balance the need for permanence with the urge to migrate, and how the home is the resting place for ancestral ghosts. The land on which Number 239 was built has a history as long as America's own. It provisioned the earliest European settlers who needed fodder for their cattle; it became a spoil of war handed from the king's servant to the revolutionary victor; it was at the heart of nineteenth-century Kleinedeutschland and of the revolutionary Jewish Lower East Side. America's immigrant waves have all passed through 7th Street. In one small house is written the history of a young country and the much longer story of humankind and the places they came to call home.

Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 233 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Minor dust jacket edgewear and foxing. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

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, 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.

New York , Princeton Architectural Press, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 330 pages, color, b&w illustrations. Like-new condition. The first architect trained in America, Robert Mills is best known as the designer of many iconic buildings in our nation's capital: the Washington Monument, the Department of Treasury headquarters, the Patent Office Building (now National Portrait Gallery) , and the Post Office Headquarters.Beautifully illustrated with never-before-published watercolors and renderings and new color photography commissioned for the book.

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.

Softcover. Miami Beach, FL, Florida Architecture, Inc., 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 168 pages, illustrated throughout, a publication of Architecture and Allied Design in Florida, floor plan sketches by David B. Spalding. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, light foxing on top edge, otherwise, clean and tight.

Hardcover. Structure/Links International, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color plates throughout. The best projects in the design of country houses around the world are profiled in this architectural and design book. Each project has been selected on the basis of its innovation in the field, making this a highly useful sourcebook for architects, designers, and students of architecture who are looking for creative directions in the design of contemporary country homes. All steps of the design process, from conception to construction, are exhaustively documented and include technical information and commentary contributed by the architects themselves.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 110 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Photographer Stanley Greenberg explores the anatomy and engineering of some of our most unusual new buildings, helping us to understand our own fascination with what makes buildings stand up, and what makes them fall down. An historical and critical essay by Joseph Rosa and an afterword by the author.The 80 captivating and thought-provoking images collected here focus on some of the most high-profile design projects of the past decade.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, leather label on spine with gilt lettering. Number 950 of 1030 copies printed. Intoduction by Stoney and 61 b&w photographs of old Charleston by Wootten. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright 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.

New York, Brockhampton/William R. Scott, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 40 pages. Many black & white and color detailed illustrations of buildings by the Leacrofts. Dust jacket with mild wear. 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 12 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.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press , reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 137 pages, illustrated from b&w photographs, plans, and drawings. Showing recent (1975) work by the young American architects Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey , Hejduk, and Meier. Mild shelf wear, clean.

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. Gloucester, MA, Quarry Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 144 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. This book guides readers through all the aspects of creating a beautiful and comfortable home that elegantly takes advantage of media-related furnishings and emerging technologies.

Hardcover. NY, Arco Publishing , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Profusely illustrated throughout, some color. 244 pages. A visual survey of much of Adam's work, provides ample material for a critical appraisal of the development of Adam as architect and designer.

Hardcover. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. The Breakers, the Waldorf, the Biltmore, the Sherry, the Pierre--these landmark hotels are synonymous with grand luxury and style. When they were built, in the 1920s, their refined elegance and grandeur set the bar for hotels and resorts the world over. Responsible for creating these and countless other hotels throughout the United States, were the partners of a single architectural firm: Schultze & Weaver. Together, this duo--an architect and an engineer--virtually invented the glamorous lifestyle made famous in films like Grand Hotel. Catering to the social elite of which they were themselves a part, Schultze & Weaver synthesized the Old World style of Renaissance Italy, Moorish Spain, and Georgian England with all of the modern amenities that made hotel living luxurious. This book presents portfolios of fifteen of the firm's most spectacular hotels, culminating in the Art Moderne masterpiece of the Waldorf-Astoria. Over two hundred period photographs and hand-colored architectural renderings chart the ascent of the American hotel in all its glory and glamour, before the Great Depression forever changed the lifestyles of America's rich and famous. Essays address the cultural and technological developments that underpin the creation of resort and residential hotels, including the elemental role played by Schultze & Weaver.

Softcover. New York, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 276 pages. Black and white photographs. Foxing on top edge.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 14 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as the Georgian Period edited by Professor William Rotch Ware. 223 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light foxing to edges. Otherwise clean unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, The Country Press, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in marbled green boards with orange front label, in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 28 pages on outhouses and privies in a humorous vein. No date but probably the early 1930s.

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 464 pages. Original publisher's faux wood boards, lettered orange at the spine and front cover. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Text in English, German and French. Many photographs By Julius Shulman. Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship between people and nature; his trademark plate glass walls and ceilings which turn into deep overhangs have the effect of connecting the indoors with the outdoors. Neutra's ability to incorporate technology, aesthetic, science, and nature into his designs brought him to the forefront of Modernist architecture. For the first time, all of Neutra's works (nearly 300 private homes, schools, and public buildings) are gathered together in one volume.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. In "Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home" Freudenheim weaves together the lives and philosophies of William Morris, John Ruskin, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, Greene & Greene, Irving Gill, Bernard Maybeck, and others with the dramatic economic, social, design and cultural changes that took place in America between 1876 and 1916. Chronicling both intellectual theory and architectural history, this ground-breaking book will appeal to general readers as well as to those enthusiastic about the Arts and Crafts Movement, its architecture and furniture. Freudenheim demonstrates how the "simple life" manifested in the rustic architecture found in Yosemite, English cottages, Japanese barns, and Swiss chalets, became the basis for the design of the American Arts and Crafts home advocated by these pioneering thinkers. Their devotion to simplicity for both the interior and exterior design of these houses also helps to explain why they embraced plain, sturdy Mission Style furniture. Freudenheim points out how numerous individuals, both American and British, helped spread these ideas across America.

Hardcover. London, The Great Western Railway, 1st, 1926, Hardcover, maroon boards with black cloth spine, 230 pages. The result of two interesting journeys, devoted to castle-seeking, one in 1924, covering Wales and the English counties along the Welsh border; and the other in 1925 devoted to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall ".The text is accompanied by 105 illustrations, 77 drawings, 1 Plate, 2 colored Plates, and 2 Maps, a color map folded into rear pocket inside cover. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 314 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1930 the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region," to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and public beaches. It is a model of ambitious, intelligent, sensitive planning commissioned at a time when land was available, if only the city planners had had the fortitude and vision to act on its recommendations. "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches" has become a highly valued but difficult-to-find document. In this book, Greg Hise and William Deverell examine the reasons it was called for, analyze why it failed, and open a discussion about the future of urban public space. In addition to their introduction and a facsimile reproduction of the report, Eden by Design includes a dialogue between Hise, Deverell, and widely admired landscape architect Laurie Olin that illuminates the significance of the Olmsted-Bartholomew report and situates it in the history of American landscape planning. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st pbk., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 304 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Piranesi has a powerful appeal for our time. His brilliance as a graphic artist, his transformation of the European vision of Classical antiquity, and his themes of fantasy have been the focus of considerable study in recent years. But though these aspects are important for an appreciation of Piranesi's visual significance, they have tended to obscure other factors essential for a complete understanding of his unique achievement. In this copiously illustrated study, John Wilton-Ely - one of the world's foremost authorities on Piranesi - offers a full reappraisal of the complex personality of an astonishingly versatile artist. His book covers every aspect of Piranesi's life and work, emphasizing especially his importance as a pioneer of Roman archaeology, the high quality of his technical illustrations, and his role in the great Graeco-Roman debate of the 1760s. The author brings to life the Enlightenment world of the artist's ideas - fundamentally bound up with the birth of Neo-Classicism - and the search for an appropriately modern form of expression; and he shows the practical and influential form taken by these ideas in Piranesi's architectural projects, his designs for furniture and decorative schemes and his imaginative restoration of antiquities. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 9 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. Light soil to fore-edge of text block. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, about 72 pages, unpaginated. The Gamble House, also known as the David B. Gamble House, is an iconic American Craftsman home in Pasadena, California, designed by the architectural firm Greene and Greene. Constructed in 1908 09 as a home for David B. Gamble, son of the Procter & Gamble founder James Gamble, Blueprints, renderings, photos vintage and modern. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Still wrapped in plastic. Accompanied the exhibition "Expressionist Utopias" at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993. In great condition. Color illustrations throughout. A nice, tight copy.The notion of utopia exists in every culture, capturing shared dreams and common goals. This book--prepared to accompany the exhibition Expressionist Utopias mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993--explores how the optimistic themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous World War I era in Germany. The exhibition's curator, Timothy O. Benson along with David Frisby, Reinhold Heller, Anton Kaes, Wolf Prix, and Iain Boyd White present the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from Arcadian to manmade utopias.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. A like new copy, no marks. Volume 5 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. 254 page book with black and white photos of the finer houses in New York and Connecticut.

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. London, Faber and Faber, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Orange cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. 93 pages of text followed by 613 monochrome plates, non-paginated. Frontis illustration, Tabriz, Tilework in the Courtyard of the So-called Blue Mosque, A. D. 1465, in full page, full color. Toning to edges. Clean, unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. Oversized. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Some light wear on dust jacket corners. Color photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. A foreword by Johnson himself, an essay by his biographer Hilary Lewis, and nearly 400 vivid color and b/w photos accompanied by detailed building descriptions presented in chronological order.

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, A.D.A. Edita, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Softcover with French flaps. (Japanese to English Text) Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Illustrations consist of photographs and drawings of completed buildings and relevant projects. A touch of age-yellowing throughout. Soil on bottom edge. Spine is slightly faded. Complete with no pages missing, binding still tight. Rare.

Softcover. London, England, Phaidon Press, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages. Softcover, French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, has a few scratches on spine (see image), otherwise great. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. In beautiful condition. A comprehensive monograph of Ando's work, this book examines over one hundred buildings and projects designed between 1969-94.

Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. Covers still very shiny, like new. Very clean inside and out. Photographs of the colorful and eccentric Victorian architecture of San Francisco.

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. 1950-1954: Architecture of the Avant-Garde. This volume covers the first half of the 1950s, a time characterized by great optimism. The consequences of World War II had largely been overcome, the most urgent needs of the population were satisfied, and economic prospects looked bright. Architecture and design looked for new forms of expression, for new materials and their applications - and the possibilities seemed limitless. Volume III shows contemporary trends of the time through detailed reports on the ninth Triennial in Milan and about designers like Tapio Wirkkala, Finn Juhl, Carlo de Carli, Carlo Mollino, Piero Fornasetti, Marco Zanuso, Harry Bertoia and George Nelson. Via features on Le Corbusier's famous Unite d'Habitation in Marseille, the groundbreaking Case Study Houses by Charles and Ray Eames, the efforts of Richard Neutra in California, the work of Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil, and the futuristic Olivetti Showroom by Studio BBPR in New York. In publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Aitor Ortiz's photographs of buildings such as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Norman Foster's viaduct in Millau use the most elementary sculptural qualities of their subject matter to create photographic abstractions. This volume is the first overview of the Spanish photographer's work to date.

Softcover. London, Seven Dials, Cassell & Co., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover with French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Edges of pages slightly yellow, otherwise very clean inside and out.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 303 pages. Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but in large part a cause. It is the everyday environment where most Americans live and work, and it represents a gathering calamity whose effects we have hardly begun to measure. In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop. Now that the great suburban build-out is over, Kunstler argues, we are stuck with the consequences: a national living arrangement that destroys civic life while imposing enormous social costs and economic burdens. Kunstler explains how our present zoning laws impoverish the life of our communities, and how all our efforts to make automobiles happy have resulted in making human beings miserable. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise like new.

Softcover. Shelburne VT, Nice Nietzsche Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A catalog offering 7 possibilities of homes built with basic materials like shipping containers, garage doors and prefab roof systems. All drawn in line plans by Kalkin. Mild wear to wrappers.