Architecture

Softcover. Portand ME, Maine Citizens For Historic Preservation, 1st, 1993.00, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, oblong format, b&w photos. Scarce monograph on the historical architecture of the reclusive summer colony on the Maine coast. Prominent families such as the Cabots, Saltonstalls, the Lamonts and the Morrows transformed the small fishing village into an exclusive summer retreat and the homes erected for these "rusticators" are examined in detail. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Dallas TX, Southern Methodist University, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 221 pages, 202 b&w plates, 20 in color. Historical and cultural history of religious, popular and folk architecture of colonial New Spain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Singapore, Times Editions-Marshall Cavendish, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. The Temples of Lhasa is a comprehensive survey of historic Buddhist sites in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The study is based on the Tibetan Heritage Fund`s official five-year architectural conservation project in Tibet, during which the author and his team had unlimited access to the buildings studied. The documented sites span the entire known history of Tibetan Buddhist art and architecture from the 7th to the 21st centuries The book is divided into thirteen chapters, covering all the major and minor temples in historic Lhasa.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Alexandria VA, Cypress Communications, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 295 pages. The charm and diversity of lighthouses are captured in this elegant pictorial history. W&w photos throughout. Clean copy.

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, A.D.A. Edita, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 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.

Hardcover. New York, Collins Design, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages, profusely illustrated throughout in color. Spotless and tight copy.

NY, Praeger, revised ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover,192 pages. Illustrated in color, b&w. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil. Small quarter-size stain to front cover.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli/Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 352 pages, edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. Illustrated mostly in b&w, some color. In publisher's shrinkwrap. This volume contains the last ten years of the writings of Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)-including the famous works "The Natural House" (1954), "A Testament" (1957), and "The Living City" (1958)-which are a mixture of rehashed ideas, the reworkings of earlier published pieces, and fanciful explorations into the concepts of truth and beauty. Little new is revealed to the Wrightian scholar by these later works. Yet this last volume cannot be dismissed. As one reads these essays, earlier thoughts and beliefs of Wright, first discovered in the earlier volumes, regularly reemerge and remind the reader of Wright, great influence in art and architecture. Ultimately, this book's value lies in its comprehensiveness (even the banal is included).

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 580 pages, profusely illustrated. This title covers the years 1985-1989 - the eighties in full force. The many styles of architecture and design that became prominent in the second half of the 1980s are the focus of this volume. Along with Postmodernism - represented by buildings, interior decoration, and designs by Peter Shire, Richard Meier, Gustav Peichl, Ricardo Bofill, Ettore Sottsass, Arata Isozaki, and the Arquitectonica firm - it was the buildings of the High-Tech Style which dominated. The most prominent examples are the Head Office of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong, designed by the architectural firm Foster Associates, and the Lloyds Building by Richard Rogers in London. In publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. New York, William T. Comstock, 5th, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and cover. Fifth edition. Light rubbing to cover edges, corners. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated with 382 photographs and sketches, 152 in color. 9 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches. 224 pages. Dan Kiley has influenced generations of landscape designers, and his work has heightened our awareness of our surroundings through his lifelong tenet that the actions of people are integral to nature and its course. Despite his international renown, no comprehensive monograph has ever been published on Dan Kiley. Produced in close collaboration with the architect, this is the definitive book on the man and his oeuvre, from early projects to his most recent works. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise clean.

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 4 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.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 7 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. 238 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.

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. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 3rd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 416 pages. Wendy Lesser's You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn is a major exploration of the architect's life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect, was a "public" architect. Rather than focusing on corporate commissions, he devoted himself to designing research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, and other structures that would serve the public good. But this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive man hiding under a series of masks.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear and creases to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Richmond VA, Allen & Ginter, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff cardboard covers illustrated in color, string bound. 12 leaves, color lithographs on one side only. Oblong 9 1/2 x 6".

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, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to front cover of dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy. "A collection of exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all of Palladio's villas."

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages, 34 color and 126 b&w gravure photographs by Alexander Zielcke. Dust jacket with light wear.

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. NY, Chartwell, 2000, Book: N, Hardcover, 448 pages. Virtually every structure that Wright built is represented in this extensive survey of his life's work. His genius at architectural design enable him to work out extremely complex buildings in his head and translate them on to paper in a matter of hours, as the famous story of his design presentation of Falling Water illustrates. His work continues to draw great admiration and interest to this day. His often tempestuous and sometimes tragic life and career are given full coverage in this book. Hundreds of photos, both archival and recent chart his amazing work and influence on all who followed. This concise consideration of Wright's life and work not only offers new insights into the character of this complex, powerful and at all times confident personality, but also the architectural legacy he left behind and which exists to this day in the vast number of homes and public buildings photographed mainly by the author himself.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, color and b&w photos by Heinrich Helfenstein, b&w illustrations, plans. Like their compatriot Peter Zumthor, the Swiss architects Marianne Burkhalter and Christian Sumi are dedicated to an exploration of the nature of materials and construction. In the last fifteen years, they have built a series of remarkable buildings in wood and stone in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Their work is a thoughtful pursuit of the fundamentals of architectural construction-a style that, like that of Zumthor's buildings, might be called Alpine minimalism. Their interest in simple forms and shapes, in luminous color, in the natural grain patterns of wood, and in the opportunities afforded by joinery and other forms of craftsmanship are evident in every aspect of their built work. This comprehensive monograph includes an in-depth look at 25 of Burkhalter and Sumi's projects, including their most famous built work, the Hotel Zurichberg. Essays by Eugene Asse, Detlef Mertins, Steven Spier, and Lynnette Widder, based respectively in Moscow, Toronto, London, and New York, explore their unique style and demonstrate the growing international acknowledgement of their practice.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1966, Hardcover, white embossed cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 115 pages profusely illustrated throughout in color and bw. Introduction by Henry Russell Hitchcock. Fifty-one color plates with plans cover all of Johnson's major buildings. In addition, relevant plans and drawings complement Hitchcock's text. The volume is completed by a thorough chronology of all of Johnson's architecture and bibliography of writings by and about the architect up to 1966. Mild darkening to cloth cover, otherwise clea copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages with 170 illustrations, 34 in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Corinthian Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated with over 50 b&w photogravures, many full page. Foreward and captions by E. Milby Burton.

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. Newtown CT, Taunton Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 202 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

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 , Rizzoli, Revised Ed., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, roughly 420 color and 110 b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Whitney Library of Design, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, color plates. A collection of fine color illustrations and text describing conversions of a variety of structures (a barn, firehouse, power station, martello tower...) to residential use. Exciting and refreshingly different homes. Great ideas in a charming book.

Hardcover. NY, British Heritage Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages, 64 color plates by Helen Allingham. A nice reprint of a book first published in 1909 in the UK. Clean copy.

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. 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.

Hardcover. Newtown CT, The Taunton Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. The past has left behind only scattered clues that, on their own, provide little insight into how the people of early America lived and the details of their daily lives. The photographs in this book, the deeply informed narrative that accompanies them, and the eyewitness accounts of daily life that the author weaves throughout, provide a fresh perspective on our early American ancestors and the places they called home. This book is about how their houses and their life in them, from the wealthy to the impoverished, from New York City to the small farms and plantations of the South, from coastal fishing towns to the Western frontier of Indiana and Kentucky. The stories focus on the remarkably vivid differences from one part of the country to the next, class and culture, and the realities of everyday life for American families. These stories twine around a wide selection of HABS photographs of early houses, covering the variety and evolutions of house styles -- not by labeling the style but by explaining the style in the context of everyday life. Richly illustrated with handsome black-and-white photography of old houses from the Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey (HABS) collection and supplemented with period woodcuts, engravings, drawings, paintings, artifacts, and maps, the book is printed on a 4-color press for a depth of tone. Sidebar excerpts from diaries, journals, and letters inject graphic eyewitness descriptions, adding an additional layer of insight. The book also includes sidebars called Still Standing that traces the history of specific houses, from their origins to the present and includes information on the original family, how the house has evolved over the centuries, and how it's used today.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. In When Buildings Speak,Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression. Covering a wide range of buildings--from national theaters to crematoria, apartment buildings to warehouses, and sanatoria to postal savings banks--Alofsin proposes a new way of interpreting this language. He calls on viewers to read buildings in two ways: through their formal elements and through their political, social, and cultural contexts. By looking through Alofsin's eyes, readers can see how myriad nations sought to express their autonomy by tapping into the limitless possibilities of art and architectural styles. And such architecture can still speak very powerfully to us today about the contradictory issues affecting parts of the former Habsburg Empire.

Softcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. Albert Kahn's contribution to North American industrial architecture is best characterized by a simplicity of expression in his designs of flexible spaces for manufacturing and production. Working in Detroit, Kahn began a long and fruitful collaboration with the automobile mogul Henry Ford, that was based on a shared vision of modernism and industry. Kahn rapidly established himself as an architect capable of responding to the new demands of mass production by employing the patented system of reinforced concrete developed by his brother, an engineer. Guided by functionalist principles and a sense of manufacturing organizations, Kahn anticipated assembly line operations and developed innovative typological characteristics for the modern factory. His projects included Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan; Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit, Michigan; Tractor Plant, Stalingrad, Russia; General Motors Building, Chicago World's Fair; and Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. Through incisive text, Albert Kahn - part of a growing series with Adalberto Libera and Adolf Loos - brings to light the novelty of Kahn's designs and his advancement of the machine aesthetic. Over ninety black-and-white photographs and drawings illustrate the extensive number of projects realized by "the architect of Ford."

Hardcover. The McKernon Group. Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages. Jack McKernon has created an easy-to-read guide for those about to embark on the adventure of building or renovating homes of their own. Pulling together details from his own experiences and those of his colleagues at the design-build firm he founded in Brandon, Vermont, he takes the reader through the process of creating a home that evokes the past but lives in the present. Illustrated with over 290 color photographs, the book offers narrative advice on finding and working with the right design-build contractor, siting the home on the property, incorporating elements of the Vermont vernacular farmhouse, ensuring convenience and comfort in the home, building responsibly, and designing a space that incorporates one's personal desires.