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
Rizzoli International Publications, June 1993. Oversize Softcover. Bottom of spine bumped. More
Dover Publications, November 1982. Oversize Softcover. Five rare volumes comprise influential link between classical architectural theory and Renaissance architecture reproduced in one inexpensive volume. Serlio establishes the importance of geometry and perspective and provides practical information on terrain, materials, antique and Renaissance structures St. Peter's in Rome, Colosseum, Pantheon and..... More
Yale University Press, September 1990. Oversize Softcover. More
Rizzoli International Publications, February 1991. Oversize Softcover. More
Princeton Architectural Press, January 1996. Oversize Softcover. Paul Goldberger Calls Michael Graves the most truly original voice that American architecture has produced in some time. Graves's monograph, Buildings and Projects, documents more than 100 works, including the Clos Pegase Winery, Whitney Museum, Newark Museum, Humana Building, Dolphin and Swan Hotels..... More
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, July 1996. Oversize Softcover. The first English translation of Gilly's essays demonstrates his influence on Berlin architects, justifying his standing as the founder of the Berlin architectural tradition. When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at age twenty-eight, his architectural career had spanned less than a...... More
Mit Pr, December 1987. Oversized Hardcover. Foxing on edges; lightly chipped jacket. More
Rizzoli, December 1988. Oversized Hardcover. Text block edges foxed; bottom edge of book a bit rubbed and shelfworn; else, near fine. More
Cambridge University Press, June 1992. Hardcover. The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This book analyses the meaning of..... More
MIT Press (MA), June 1995. Oversized Hardcover. "Winner of the 1997 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion" Anyone reviewing the history of architectural theory, Robin Evans observes, would have to conclude that architects do not produce geometry, but rather consume it. In this long-awaited book, completed shortly before its author's death, Evans..... More
Rizzoli International Publications, November 1993. Oversize Softcover. Shows and describes Stern's recent designs for homes, office buildings, monuments, and other projects, including works for Disney. Robert A. M. Stern is one of America's most prominent and respected architects. His recent work, which includes large country houses, city apartments, a number..... 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
Mit Pr, October 1998. Oversized Hardcover. "This book may very well prove to be a seminal study for more than the history of architecture, but in that area it is definitely new, fresh, and delightful." -- Tom Peters, author of "Building the Nineteenth Century" This revelatory study of Le Corbusier's..... More
The Cleveland Landmarks Commison/ The Cleveland Restoration Society, January 1996. Reprint. Hardcover. 4th edition. Quarto. {9' x 11 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with foxing & dust stains., Textured burgundy boards with gold lettering on front panel & spine. Scattered foxing, otherwise clean interiors. With wrap-around band, 'Rprinted to Honor Cleveland's..... More
Clarkson Potter, February 1978. Paper Back. 2nd printing. Square octavo. {9' x 9'} Mild edgewear. Light foxing. [182 pages]. More
Rizzoli International Publications, October 1994. Oversize Softcover. The most comprehensive analysis in English of the architect's spectacular career. The most comprehensive analysis in English of the architect's spectacular career. More
Chronicle Books, August 1996. Oversized Hardcover. Overlooking the shimmering waters of the Pacific, the beach houses of California are as spectacular as the coastal paradise they adorn. Their allure is one of relaxed glamour, their possession an American dream. "California Beach Houses" leads readers on a private tour of over..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1961. Soft Cover. Octavo. Mild edgewear. [256 pages]. More
Chronicle Books (CA), March 1995. Reprint. Paper Back. From the author of The Natural House Book comes a provocative volume for anyone interested in design, designing or building which integrates the lessons of the past with today's technology to create structures where the land, the home, and the spirit coexist..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. We are living in a new urban age, and its most tangible expression is the "supertall" megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Cities around the world are racing to build the first mile-high building, stretching..... More
Texas Monthly Pr, December 1986. Oversize Softcover. More
Dover Publications, May 1982. Oversize Softcover. 204 black-and-white photographs of Boston architecture, neighborhoods. Revere s home, Trinity Church, Hancock Tower, Faneuil Hall, the Custom House, Christ Church, Union Oyster House, Old City Hall, the Boston Athenaeum, homes of Louisa May Alcott, William Dean Howells and others. Lovely shots, lively text..... More
Gibbs Smith Publishers, August 2003. Oversized Hardcover. Although straw bale construction is beginning to enter the mainstream, many people continue to wonder what a straw bale house looks like. The New Strawbale Home answers definitively, "Anything you want!" Innovative architects and builders are reinventing this century-old technology to create thick-walled..... More
