architecture

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 5th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages, b&w illustrations. This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World's architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?" Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Montpelier VT, Friends of the Vermont State House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Intimate Grandeur is a 120-page celebration of the historic seat of Vermont state government. Illustrated with exquisite photographs and dozens of historic paintings and drawings. Clean copy.

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. 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. NY, Gourmet , 1st, 1958, Hardcover, cream colored buckram with Italian crest to front and spine; gilt title to spine. 593 pages with b&w photographs and illustrations by the author. SIGNED BY CHAMBERLAIN on the front fly leaf. Recipes translated from the Italian and adapted by Narcissa Chamberlain. Samuel V. Chamberlain (1895-1975) was an author, illustrator, photographer and artist who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Phineas Beck. His works include books on historical architecture, interiors, fashion illustration, and cookbooks. White cloth covers soiled, Interior clean.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Volume 1 only. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The important collection of Italian Renaissance drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum, London has for many years remained one of the hidden treasures of the Museum. Fully illustrated throughout, with over 530 illustrations in b/w. Drawings of architectural details, decorative elements, mechanical depictions, trajan's column, the chinnery album, etc. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 401 pages. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Include ornamental designs from the circle of Giorgio Vasari, Renaissance machinery, and the ancient brick tombs of the Roman Campagna as drawn by Giovanni Battista Montano, etc.PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Tokyo/Amsterdam, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha/Abrams, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 554 pages, illustrated with hundreds of color and b&w plates of Japanese temples from the year 552. Photographs by Tatsuzo Sato, Shihachi Fujimoto, Yoshio Watanabe, Ken Domon, Yasukichi Irie, Yukio Futagawa. Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha. Bibliography. Large folio, brown silk cloth with gilt lettering. In a edgeworn green slipcase. Heavy volume, extra charges for priority shipping.

Softcover. New York, New-York Historical Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Nearly sixty-five years ago the New-York Historical Society acquired its first landscape painting by Jasper F. Cropsey. Since then additional works by the distinguished Hudson River school painter have supplemented the Society's holdings. Published on the occasion of a special exhibition.

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, b&w photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket, sticker residue on rear. Else a clean, tight copy. During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose members included Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Morgans, this quiet refuge in the Golden Isles was the perfect winter getaway for the wealthy new industrial class of the snowbound North.In this delightful book, a companion volume to The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires, June Hall McCash focuses on the social club's members and the "cottages" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. Illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published photographs from private family collections, The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony tells the stories of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and their interactions with one another.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 310 pages. John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. He left an immensely rich literary heritage, which is of great significance for scholars interested in garden history and the histories of intellectual life and architecture. Evelyn is perhaps best known for Sylva, a compilation of thoughts on practical estate management, gardening, and philosophy, and the first book published by the Royal Society in London. As one of the group of learned men who founded the Royal Society in 1660 to promote scientific research, discussion, and publications, John Evelyn was at the center of many of the vital intellectual currents of the time. "Elysium Britannicum," Evelyn's unpublished manuscript of almost a thousand pages of densely packed drafts, rewrites, and projects, was perhaps something of an enigma to his contemporaries, who nevertheless urged its publication. It remains for scholars today a treasure-trove of fascinating insights on Evelyn and his milieu. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages 231 illustrations 60 in color with 274 plans and drawings. Biography. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Josef Paul Kleihues (1933-2004) was one of the most prolific architects of postwar Germany, famous both as the Director of the International Building Exhibition Berlin in 1987 and for his design for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He was also known for his sensitive interventions into older buildings, an instance of which is the former Hamburger Bahnhof--now the Museum fur Gegenwart--in Berlin, where Kleihues intermixed glass walls and light installations by the American Minimalist Dan Flavin with the building's original nineteenth-century Neoclassical design. (His reconstruction was widely deemed to rival or even surpass Gae Aulenti's overhaul of the interior of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.) This first volume of a three-part monograph presents projects up to 1980, including the highly acclaimed Berlin Sanitation Department and the Neukolln Hospital. Even in these early works, Kleihues' practical, problem-solving approach is already evident, indicating his readiness to reflect on the traditional approaches of Modern architecture and his capacity to expand them in interesting ways. This very generously illustrated volume was designed by Kleihues himself, just before his death in 2004.

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. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, illustrated with mostly b&w plates, 8 color pages. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time."--from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. He also produced paintings, collages, photomontages, film scripts, book covers, and typefaces and participated in theatrical performances.

Softcover. Amsterdam, Amsterdam Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel, First Edition, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio size, in Dutch text. 40 pages text followed by 470 plates in black & white. Brown cloth covered boards with embossed illustration in black & gilt. Moderate rubbing, scuff marks to covers. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Tender front board with crack to top quarter hinge. Toning to edges throughout. Striking, full page black & white illustrations detailing castles, gardens, mansions, intricate woodwork throughout. Previous owner's signature & stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Calif., Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a dust jacket. This copy is still shrink-wrapped in plastic. Many b&w and color illustrations throughout. Accompanied an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2001. Examines more than seventy-five paintings and other artworks, representing the Purist movement in twentieth-century modernist art, featuring the works of Le Corbusier, AmTdTe Ozenfant, and Fernand LTger as well as a complete translation of the classic work AprFs le cubisme.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, embossed titles to spine, dark blue dust jacket with photographic illustration, profusely illustrated with gorgeous color photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket, small nick to dust jacket at mid-spine, pages crisp and unmarked, clean boards; a beautiful book in great condition. Author Harvey H. Kaiser spent ten years exploring the historic architecture of the Western National Parks, from the rain forrests of the Olympic Peninsular to the awesome wonder of the Grand Canyon, and from rough-hewn travelers' cabins to Yosemite's spectacular Ahwahnee Hotel and Mount Hood's Timberline Lodge. Organized by region and park, and rich with historic detail.

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.

Softcover. London, Reaktion Books,, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 223 pages, 144 illistrations, most in color. An exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. Tracing the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, Ken Worpole ranges from village churchyards to tightly packed cities of the dead, such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Pere Lachaise in Paris.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy. How Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States shaped his critique of the country and affected both his work and the diffusion of his ideas. Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les Cathedrales etaient blanches: Voyage au Pays des Timid Personnes (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This slip-cased, oversized book, weighing 20 pounds and containing over 2000 illustrations, summarizes the life and work of the most important modern architect of the 20th century: the legendary, controversial, and confrontational Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier was not exclusively an architect but an artist (painter and sculptor), urbanist, author, furniture designer, world traveler, and media figure. What is most impressive in this volume are the huge-scale photographs drawn from the Le Corbusier archives at the Fondation Le Corbusier in France. These photographs are personal, professional, indicative, anecdotal, illustrative, and symbolic of the entire saga of Le Corbusier's life and career over 60 years. They make this book an absolute gold mine for anyone wanting to understand and steep themselves in the spirit and character of this greatest modern architect of the last century. The written material is also first-rate: Jean-Louis Cohen, France's best-known historian of modern architecture, contributes an informative introduction, and Tim Benton, a well-known British architectural historian, writes opening texts for individual chapters. Recommended for architecture and art libraries as well as public libraries with serious art collections.--Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. NOTE; DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT THIS VOLUME CANNOT BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Softcover. Venice, Cataloghi Marsilio, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. TEXT IN ITALIAN. A catalog of drawings and architectural watercolor sketches done by Le Corbusier on a trip to Italy in 1907. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. (1907) - Catalogo della Mostra. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. The City of Refuge complex--commissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workers--represents a significant confluence of design principles, technological experiments, and attitudes on reform. It also provides rare insights into the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects, Le Corbusier. Brian Brace Taylor draws on extensive archival research to reconstruct each step of the architect's attraction to the commission, his design process and technological innovations, the social and philosophical compatibility of the Salvation Army with Le Corbusier's own ideas for urban planning, and finally, the many modifications required, first to eliminate defects and later to accommodate changes in the services the building provided. Throughout, Taylor focuses on Le Corbusier's environmental, technological, and social intentions as opposed to his strictly formal intentions. He shows that the City of Refuge became primarily a laboratory for the architect's own research and not simply a conventional solution to residents' requirements or the Salvation Army's program.

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.