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Adolf Loos, Theory and Works by: Benedetto Gravagnuolo - Product Image

Adolf Loos, Theory and Works
by: Benedetto Gravagnuolo

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.

Record # 377829

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Albert Kahn: Architect of Fordby: Bucci, Federico - Product Image

Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford
by: Bucci, Federico

Softcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, 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."

Record # 351548

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Albert Kahn: Architect of Fordby: Bucci, Federico - Product Image
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Albert Kahn: Architect of Ford
by: Bucci, Federico

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."

Record # 351523

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Aluminum By Designby: Nichols, Sarah - Product Image

Aluminum By Design
by: Nichols, Sarah

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. This book accompanies a major traveling exhibition that showcases works by some of the most visionary designers and architects, from chairs and tables to jewelry and entire buildings.

Record # 351455

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Antoine Predock: Housesby: Collins, Brad (Editor) - Product Image

Antoine Predock: Houses
by: Collins, Brad (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, NY, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 197 pages, color photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy. This is the first book to put together all of the extraordinary houses designed by Antoine Predock. Each of the twelve remarkable private houses featured here--ten from Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and two from California--harmoniously blend with their landscape in ways for which Predock is now so renowned. Characterized by environmentally conscious design, the houses display both exquisite refinement and an ingenious level of invention.

Record # 455454

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Architecture of Philip Johnson, The.by: Payne, Richard (Photographer) Philip Johnson, Hilary Lewis - Product Image

Architecture of Philip Johnson, The.
by: Payne, Richard (Photographer) Philip Johnson, Hilary Lewis

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.

Record # 455407

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Architecture of Stations and Terminals, The - Airplane Train, Bus and Subwayby: Cerver, Fransico Asensio - Product Image

Architecture of Stations and Terminals, The - Airplane Train, Bus and Subway
by: Cerver, Fransico Asensio

NY, Hearst Books International, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color photos and illustrations. 191 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 201111

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Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Brown, Jules David - Product Image

Architecture of the Yale Center for British Art, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brown, Jules David

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Edmund Pillsbury. INSCRIBED BY BROWN on front fly leaf. Light rubbing to front edge of embossed dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the opening of the building.

Record # 512211

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Architecture of Von Gerkan, Marg + Partnersby: Zukowsky (Ed.), John - Product Image

Architecture of Von Gerkan, Marg + Partners
by: Zukowsky (Ed.), John

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.

Record # 67588

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Architecture under Constructionby: Greenberg, Stanley - Product Image

Architecture under Construction
by: Greenberg, Stanley

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.

Record # 351658

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Building the Gettyby: Meier, Richard - Product Image

Building the Getty
by: Meier, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This book provides a fascinating history of the planning, design, and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the great cultural complexes to be built in our time. Writing with wit and passion, Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.

Record # 361944

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Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts and Crafts Homeby: Freudenheim, Leslie M. - Product Image

Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts and Crafts Home
by: Freudenheim, Leslie M.

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.

Record # 351531

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California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architectureby: Heimann, Jim - Product Image

California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
by: Heimann, Jim

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.

Record # 352569

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Chicago Architecture 1872-1922 Birth of a Metropolisby: Zukowsky (Ed.), John - Product Image

Chicago Architecture 1872-1922 Birth of a Metropolis
by: Zukowsky (Ed.), John

Softcover. Munich, Prestel/Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 480 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago and in conjunction with an exhibition presented there in the summer of 1988, as well as in Paris and Frankfurt-am-Main in 1987-88. Contributors to the text include Robert Bruegmann, Sally Chappell, Meredith L. Clausen, Joan E. Draper and others.

Record # 415216

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Conversations with Architects: Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown! by:  - Product Image

Conversations with Architects: Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown!
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Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, b&w illustrations. Foreword by Vincent Scully. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 362541

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Converted Spacesby: Niesewand, Nonie - Product Image

Converted Spaces
by: Niesewand, Nonie

Hardcover. London, Conran/Octopus, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 220 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, tight copy. Vast, obsolete buildings are now taking on new life as people seek out living space. This work presents an international collection of conversions, including those of architects and designers such as Andree Putman and John Pawson. Through the designs and accompanying text, the reader witnesses how empty shells are transformed into unconventional homes.

Record # 608579

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Cottages in the Sun: Bungalows of Venice, Californiaby: Margaret Bach, Melba Levick (Photographer)  - Product Image

Cottages in the Sun: Bungalows of Venice, California
by: Margaret Bach, Melba Levick (Photographer)

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, More than a century ago, when Abbot Kinney built his Venice-of-America with its network of canals and fanciful buildings, cultural aspirations were high. Over the years, this aura of fantasy and imaginative possibility endured as integral to the zeitgeist of the place. Today, this spirit of innovation and creativity is richly expressed in the vintage bungalows and cottages that have been embraced and brought back to life by homeowners more in love with place than size. Stalwart survivors of the ebb and flow of the area's fortunes over a century, these small homes channel the creative spirit of the place and provide a welcome counterpoint to oversize houses. Color, landscape, treasured collections, personal narrative, contemporary overlays and additions, art and craft, and inventive design--all combine in various ways to produce domestic environments with unique and deeply personal points of view.

Record # 360885

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Domus, Vol. 7 1970-1974by: Celant/Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter, Germano - Product Image

Domus, Vol. 7 1970-1974
by: Celant/Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter, Germano

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 580 pages profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Italian.

Record # 351463

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Domus, Vol. 8, 1975-1979by: Casati, Cesare Maria - Product Image

Domus, Vol. 8, 1975-1979
by: Casati, Cesare Maria

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.

Record # 351470

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Domus, Volume 1, 1928-1939by: Irace, Luigi Spinelli (Author), Peter Fiell (Editor), Fulvio - Product Image

Domus, Volume 1, 1928-1939
by: Irace, Luigi Spinelli (Author), Peter Fiell (Editor), Fulvio

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 580 pages. The International style of the late 1920's and 1930's is the focal point of this volume. Along with groundbreaking buildings, interior decoration, and furniture by international architects and designers such as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Robert Mallett-Stevens, Alvar Alto, and Richard Neutra, is above all the work of the Italian avant-garde, including names like Giuseppe Terragne, Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, Melchiorre Bega, Franco Albini or Studio BBPR, that provides precise insight into the formative decade of Modernism. Text in English and Italian. Clean copy.

Record # 351462

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Domus, Volume 11: 1990-1994by: Fiell, Peter - Product Image

Domus, Volume 11: 1990-1994
by: Fiell, Peter

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Taschen's Domus collection is a major publishing achievement and a must-have item for all design and architecture teaching institutions, practicing architects, designers, collectors, students, and anyone who loves design. /// The first half of the 1990s represented a generational change in architecture and design.//// This title covers the years 1990-1994 - the next generation. The first half of the 1990s, this volume's focus, marked a shifting of the generations in architecture and design. "domus" - up to date as always - documented the work of this new generation with elaborate articles and reports. The architects Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel, David Chipperfield, Philippe Starck, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron made their debuts in domus during this period. In addition, established architectural greats like Frank O. Gehry, Mario Bellini, Richard Meier, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, and Zaha Hadid were also featured. In product design, Marc Newson, Rodney Kinsman, Jasper Morrison as well as the brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana appeared in the spotlight.

Record # 351472

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Domus, Volume 3, 1950-1954by: Ponti, Lisa Licitri/ Luigi Spinelli, et al. - Product Image

Domus, Volume 3, 1950-1954
by: Ponti, Lisa Licitri/ Luigi Spinelli, et al.

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.

Record # 351468

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Domus, Volume 5, 1960-1964by: Casciani, Stefano - Product Image

Domus, Volume 5, 1960-1964
by: Casciani, Stefano

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 580 pages. 1960-1954: Design Goes Pop. This volume concentrates on the architecture and design of the first half of the 1960s, characterized by the coexistence of a number of different styles. The aftermath of the International style and Good Design were still noticeable whereas Organic Design, which had developed in parallel since the late 1940s, gradually lost its influence. From the early 1960s onwards, a new force took its place, geared toward Pop Art and popular culture, leading to Pop Design. This trend is particularly recognizable in interior design, where a variety of new synthetics and foam plastics replaced traditional materials such as metal, glass or wood, pointing the way to completely new designs. Volume V documents this with examples of designs by Ray and Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, and Joe Colombo. On the architectural side, the impressive buildings of Gio Ponti, Carlo Scarpa, Angelo Mangiarotti, James Stirling, and others./// Hardcover, 580 pages. 1960-1954: Design Goes Pop. This volume focuses on the architecture and design of the first half of the 1960s. A new force lead to Pop Design. This trend is particularly recognizable in interior design, where a variety of new synthetics and foam plastics replaced traditional materials such as metal, glass or wood.

Record # 351471

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Domus, Volume 6, 1965-1969by: Sudjic/ Charlotte Fiell, et al., Deyan - Product Image

Domus, Volume 6, 1965-1969
by: Sudjic/ Charlotte Fiell, et al., Deyan

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.

Record # 351469

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Et in Suburbia Ego: Jos - Product Image

Et in Suburbia Ego: Jos

Softcover. Columbus OH, Wexner Center for the Arts , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 278 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Completed in 1992 in Lexington, Kentucky, the Miller House stands as architect Jose Oubrerie's most notable accomplishment in the United States. Among the last members of Le Corbusier's Paris atelier, Oubrerie is best known for his collaborations with Le Corbusier on projects including the Venice Hospital and the church of St. Pierre de Firminy-Vert. The Miller House, with its deft synthesis of modernist elements with American vernacular construction and an array of historical sources, marks a highly original swerve from modernist orthodoxy and a landmark achievement in American architecture. Clean copy.

Record # 382080

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Frank Gehry in Pop-Upby: Jinny Johnson and Roland Lewis - Product Image

Frank Gehry in Pop-Up
by: Jinny Johnson and Roland Lewis

Hardcover. Thunder Bay Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages. For over forty years, postmodern architect Frank Gehry has changed skylines with his dramatic forms. Among several other awards, his enchanting body of work earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize-the "Nobel Prize of architecture." Experience for yourself Gehry's captivating deconstructive designs in a new interactive book, Frank Gehry in Pop-Up. This beautiful pop-up book illustrates Frank Gehry's greatest works of architecture and their natural environments, demonstrating his gift for radically redefining structure and space. Discover the inspirations behind Gehry's light and lively designs in a three-dimensional way, and learn how he combines building elements with an innovative approach. Featured within are his most iconic works, including the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the pioneering, pulled-apart structure of Gehry's Venice Beach House. Get to know the man behind the buildings with a brief yet in-depth look into Gehry's personal history and lifeworks. Compare and contrast the many different sides of Gehry, from the whimsical laid-back Californian to the closet elitist-and sometimes obsessive perfectionist.

Record # 361179

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Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: Volume 5 1949-1959by: Wright, Frank Lloyd - Product Image

Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: Volume 5 1949-1959
by: Wright, Frank Lloyd

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).

Record # 351116

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Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: Volume 5 1949-1959by: Wright, Frank Lloyd - Product Image

Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: Volume 5 1949-1959
by: Wright, Frank Lloyd

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).

Record # 351117

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Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up
by: Thomson, Iain

Hardcover. London, PRC Publishing, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 40 pages, 6 double-page pop-ups engineered by Keit35.00h Finch, floor plans, illustrations by Andrew Crowson, most in color, commentary; square folio, blue pictorial boards. Includes Ennis-Nesbit House, Fallingwater and Guggenheim Museun. Light bump to bottom corner, minor wear to cardboard spine. All pop-ups are in working order, the book is clean, no writing in or on the book,

Record # 380744

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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941 Volume 6 (Japanese to English Text)by: Futagawa (Editor, Photography), Yukio, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text) - Product Image

Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941 Volume 6 (Japanese to English Text)
by: Futagawa (Editor, Photography), Yukio, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text)

Softcover. Tokyo, Japan, A.D.A. Edita, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 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.

Record # 31085

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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 Volume 7 (Japanese to English Text)by: Futagawa (Editor, Photography), Yukio, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text) - Product Image

Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 Volume 7 (Japanese to English Text)
by: Futagawa (Editor, Photography), Yukio, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text)

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.

Record # 373143

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Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 Volume 8 (Japanese to English Text)by: Futagawa (Editor, Photography), Yukio, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text) - Product Image

Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 Volume 8 (Japanese to English Text)
by: Futagawa (Editor, Photography), Yukio, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Text)

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.

Record # 31084

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Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbaoby: Van Bruggen, Coosje - Product Image

Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
by: Van Bruggen, Coosje

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.

Record # 351190

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Glass Housesby: Bahamon, Alejandro - Product Image

Glass Houses
by: Bahamon, Alejandro

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.

Record # 456397

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Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaverby: Marianne Lamonaca - Product Image

Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze & Weaver
by: Marianne Lamonaca

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.

Record # 362274

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Householdsby: Robbins, Mark - Product Image

Households
by: Robbins, Mark

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.

Record # 351374

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Ledge House - Bohlin Cywinski Jackson - Single Building Series - Process of an Architectural Workby: Ojeda, Oscar Riera/William P. Bruder/Karl A. Backus - Product Image

Ledge House - Bohlin Cywinski Jackson - Single Building Series - Process of an Architectural Work
by: Ojeda, Oscar Riera/William P. Bruder/Karl A. Backus

Hardcover. Gloucester, Rockport Publishers, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. Scarce hardcover. Features full color photography and illustrations. Fold-out pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 611807

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Marianne Burkhalter + Christian Sumiby: Sumi, Christian and Marianne Burkhalter - Product Image

Marianne Burkhalter + Christian Sumi
by: Sumi, Christian and Marianne Burkhalter

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.

Record # 351541

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Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us - Essays and Projects on the Cityby: Bell, Michael - Product Image

Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us - Essays and Projects on the City
by: Bell, Michael

Softcover. New York, Monacelli Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages, illustrated in color and b&w.Since 1988, New York-based architect Michael Bell has created a series of projects and essays that explore architectural and urban design for California, New York, and Texas -- the three most populous regions of the United States and, coincidentally, the three states in which he has lived and practiced. The first monograph on the architect, Michael Bell: Space Replaces Us; Essays and Projects on the City, includes both design work and writings.Bell has organized and designed two important installations, both of which include his work: "Endspace: Michael Bell and Hans Hofmann," at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, and "16 Houses: Owning a House in the City," at DiverseWorks in Houston, which featured his seminal Glass House @ 2 Degrees. Other projects included are an urban renewal scheme for a huge site in Far Rockaway, New York, and a series of residential projects, including the Ghent House, a modernist glass house currently under construction in upstate New York. Complementing the design projects are three major essays: "Having Heard Mathematics: The Topologies of Boxing," "Eyes in the Heat: RSE," and "New York City."

Record # 351122

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Modern Architecture Since 1900by: Curtis, William J. R. - Product Image

Modern Architecture Since 1900
by: Curtis, William J. R.

Softcover. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2nd Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover. Tight copy. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs & architectural illustrations. One interior section includes full page, full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 3340028

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Monticello in Measured Drawings: Drawings by the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, Nationa Park Service by: William L. Beiswa - Product Image

Monticello in Measured Drawings: Drawings by the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, Nationa Park Service
by: William L. Beiswa

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.

Record # 378325

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Monticello in Measured Drawings: Drawings by the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, Nationa Park Service by: William L. Beiswa - Product Image

Monticello in Measured Drawings: Drawings by the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, Nationa Park Service
by: William L. Beiswa

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.

Record # 378326

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Movie Palaces: Survivors of an Elegant Eraby: Pildas and Lucinda Smith, Ave - Product Image

Movie Palaces: Survivors of an Elegant Era
by: Pildas and Lucinda Smith, Ave

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages illustrated with color and b&w photographs by Pildas. text by Lucinda Smith. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, price-clipped. Commemorating the vanishing architecture of classic film theatres with a foreword by King Vidor and chapters on: The Movie Palaces / The Survivors / Notes on the Theatres. With an Index of the Theatres.

Record # 351260

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New American Cottage, The - Innovations in Small-Scale Residential Architectureby: Trulove, James Grayson and Il Kim - Product Image

New American Cottage, The - Innovations in Small-Scale Residential Architecture
by: Trulove, James Grayson and Il Kim

Softcover. New York , Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Square 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. 228 pages, over 400 color photographs and b/w plans and drawings.

Record # 351328

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New International House, Theby: Cerver, Francisco Asensio - Product Image

New International House, The
by: Cerver, Francisco Asensio

Hardcover. New York , Watson-Guptill/Whitney, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Large Hardcover. Color photos. Text by Richard Lewis Rees. Near fine dust jacket. Bright, tight and clean. A variety of houses are explained and described in detail by the actual architects and interior designers. This is an extensively illustrated work with more than 350 full color photographs, construction plans, and architectural and distribution drawings displaying the diverse locations in a technical way.

Record # 351333

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Off The Grid: Modern Homes + Alternative Energyby: Lori Ryker  - Product Image

Off The Grid: Modern Homes + Alternative Energy
by: Lori Ryker

Hardcover. Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Off the Grid confronts the ecological and cultural problems associated with the way we get and use energy, and explains how it is possible to live in a beautifully designed home using much less--no matter where your home is located. Our homes are connected by a nearly invisible grid of infrastructure that binds us together. It is a system of electrical poles, wire, substations, hydroelectric dams, telecommunication towers, and water extraction and sewage systems. From within this system we work, play, and raise families. We have also created one of the greatest environmental challenges known to modern civilization. The signs of our impact upon the world can be recognized in the reports of environmental changes occurring across the earth, and they can also be seen in the growing failures of the energy grids across the world as the current system is stressed beyond its capacity. Off the Grid beautifully illustrates that this is not just a concept for rural living; examples of homes that are "off the grid" to varying degrees are found in New York City; Ontario, Canada; Stuttgart, Germany; Belmont, California; Pipe Creek, Texas; Clyde Park, Montana; Twin Lakes, Minnesota; Laytonville, California; Venice, California; and New South Wales, Australia.

Record # 363443

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Palaces of Goa - Models and Types of Indo-Portugese Civil Architectureby: Carita, Helder - Product Image

Palaces of Goa - Models and Types of Indo-Portugese Civil Architecture
by: Carita, Helder

Hardcover. London, Cartago, 1st UK, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Color and black & white photography by Nicholas Sapieha. By studying a period of nearly four centuries and examining houses over the entire region of Goa, this lavishly illustrated book, with architectural drawings, attempts to define the specific identity of Indo-Portuguese architecture. It is possible to observe, particularly during the 17th and 18th centuries, a progressive cross-influencing of Indian and Portuguese aesthetic tastes: the resulting mixture has produced a fascinating style of architecture, which this text has captured with more than 200 color photographs.

Record # 204850

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Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architectsby: Johnson, Philip - Product Image

Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects
by: Johnson, Philip

Hardcover. NY, Monacelli, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, color illustrations throughout. Highlights structures, both in the planning and executed stages, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects, that demonstrate the firm's sculptural achievements, including Da Monsta and the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Introduction by Paul Goldberger. In a bright dust jacket, clean.

Record # 351776

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Porphyry Manual, Theby: Tomio, Paolo/Fiorino Filippi - Product Image

Porphyry Manual, The
by: Tomio, Paolo/Fiorino Filippi

Softcover. Albiano, e. s. Po., Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Softcover with light wear to covers, crease to corner edge. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color & black & white throughout, including charts, diagrams, instructions. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750642

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Practical Lessons in Architectural Drawing or How to Make the Working Drawings and Write the Specifications for Buildings - Illustrated by 33 Full-page Plates (One in Color) and 33 Woodcuts, showing methods of Construction and Repres - Product Image

Practical Lessons in Architectural Drawing or How to Make the Working Drawings and Write the Specifications for Buildings - Illustrated by 33 Full-page Plates (One in Color) and 33 Woodcuts, showing methods of Construction and Repres

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.

Record # 614161

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