California Houses of Gordon Drake
William Stout Publishers, May 2010. Oversized Hardcover. More
William Stout Publishers, May 2010. Oversized Hardcover. More
Rizzoli International Publications, June 1993. Oversize Softcover. Briefly traces the career of this contemporary American architect and shows examples of his houses, apartment buildings, libraries, museums, schools, hotels, churches, and conference centers. Documents the full range of the architect's career. Minor shelfwear. More
Thames & Hudson, November 2011. Oversized Hardcover. Seven hundred years of architectural innovation make for an international survey of spectacular scope and depth, from the dome of St. Paul's cathedral to the arresting angles of the Sydney Opera House, from the monumental Taj Mahal to Kengo Kuma's attempts "to erase..... More
Birkhauser Basel, June 2009. Oversized Hardcover. Nach Jahrzehnten der Verdrängung von Wasser aus dem Siedlungsraum ist dieses in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt zum gestalterischen Thema geworden. Die Integration natürlicher Wasserläufe in die bebaute Umgebung, die Klimatisierung von Stadträumen durch Wasserskulpturen, aber auch die Schaffung von Ruhe- oder Erlebnisorten wie Brunnen..... More
Horizon Press, 1960. Oversized Hardcover. Hinges starting. Bump at bottom of front cover. More
Mit Pr, January 1991. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. "James Ackerman's essays are nuggets of pure gold in the mainstream of American cultural history. They exemplify the very best art history has achieved in our time." -- Irving Lavin, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University These essays by one of..... More
Penguin/Pelican Books, 1972. Paper Back. Darkening. Shelf wear. More
Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building. While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of..... More
Planners Pr, January 1999. Oversize Softcover. More
Rizzoli International Publications, June 1993. Oversize Softcover. Bottom of spine bumped. More
Yale University Press, September 1985. Oversize Softcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2002. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. This is a guided tour through the past, present, and future of great civic architecture in New York City. It tells the story of Pennsylvania Station: the original building, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the new station..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2002. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. This is a guided tour through the past, present, and future of great civic architecture in New York City. It tells the story of Pennsylvania Station: the original building, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the new station..... More
Whitney Library of Design, January 1976. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to the dust jacket. More
Scribner's, 1972. Paper Back. More
School of Architecture, Univ. of MD, January 2010. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 1999. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. It begins with the historic struggle to save Grand Central in the wake of the destruction of Penn Station and in the face of economic forces in the real estate industry that were intent on its demise. There follows..... More
Welcome Books, August 2008. Numbered. Cloth. New York calls to mind many things: the Chrysler Building with its innovative design and sunburst pattern, the Empire State building with its amazing views and dominating size, Rockefeller Center seamlessly merging commerce and art. Each of these cherished pieces of New York were..... More
Cambridge University Press, August 1992. Oversized Hardcover. This history of Romanesque architectural criticism examines seventeenth through early nineteenth-century commentary on medieval architecture and the naming of the Romanesque style. From the time of Giorgio Vasari's Vite (1550) through circa 1818, the portmanteau Gothic often served as a blanket and dismissive..... More
Princeton Architectural Press, September 1996. Hardcover. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe reigns as one of the most richly complex figures in architecture's pantheon of classical modernists. Buildings such as his Barcelona Pavilion and New York City's Seagram Building have become 20th century landmarks and prototypes for building in the West..... More
Princeton University Press, May 1982. Oversized Hardcover. The description for this book, Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861, will be forthcoming. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket VG, mildly edge-worn; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An..... More
Arno Press, January 1977. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket is sunned, edge chipped, with a closed tear at bottom of front panel and a 3/4 inch triangular chip missing from top edge of same panel. More
Yale University Press, April 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. {5 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/4'} In mildly edgeworn jacket with lightened folds and eges. Sticker residue affixed to rear panel of jacket. Textured grey end papers. Maroon cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Tight binding. Complete number string..... More
MIT Press (MA), November 1994. Cloth. This work faces the crisis of the city in the late 20th century, embarking on a journey through theatres and museums, panoramas and maps, buildings and institutions that are used to construct a new reading of the city as a system of representation. Boyer..... More
Rizzoli International Publications, October 1993. Soft Cover. More