California Houses of Gordon Drake
William Stout Publishers, May 2010. Oversized Hardcover. More
Architecture
Charles Moore: Buildings and Projects 1949-1986
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
Everyday Urbanism: Expanded (Expanded)
Monacelli Press, December 2008. Trade Paperback. First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily..... More
Great Builders
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
Recent Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water (Revised, Expanded)
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
Terrace Design
Te Neues Publishing Company, July 2005. Hardcover. Whether one lives in a house in the country or an apartment in town, terraces are a treasured amenity, extending living spaces to the outdoors while allowing nature inside. This lavishly illustrated fantasy book highlights twenty spectacular terraces of every variety?rooftop terraces, garden..... More
Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design Thinking for the Future of Urban Regions (Trancity)
Valiz/Trancity, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions offers designers, their commissioners and local governments new models for thinking about sustainability, resiliency, and the social and physical health of contemporary cities, with more than 50 case studies. More
Palladio (The Architect and Society) - reprint
Penguin/Pelican Books, 1972. Paper Back. Darkening. Shelf wear. More
Five Houses
Princeton Architectural Press, 1987. Paper Back. "A quality' compilation". -- Renee Sprogis-Marohn, CCAIA Focus. Square quarto. {10' x 10'} French folds. Mild darkening to textblock top & fore-edge. Lighting toning. Faint foxing/dust stains to internal pages. Blind stamp to first inside page. 133 pages. More
ARCHITECTURE BOSTON
Clarkson Potter, February 1978. Paper Back. 2nd printing. Square octavo. {9' x 9'} Mild edgewear. Light foxing. [182 pages]. More
James Stirling
Rizzoli International Publications, June 1993. Oversize Softcover. Bottom of spine bumped. More
Dynamics of Architectural Form (Revised)
University of California Press, March 1978. Paper Back. The power of the visual effects exerteds by architecture, in our own time and in the past, has been largely neglected in recent discussion, with its focus on pratical utility and other economic and social factors. Such an account of the human..... More
Last Country Houses
Yale University Press, September 1985. Oversize Softcover. More
New York's Pennsylvania Stations
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
New York's Pennsylvania Stations
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
Lettering on Architecture
Whitney Library of Design, January 1976. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to the dust jacket. More
Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, February 1990. Oversize Softcover. Covers creased; else, very good. More
Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives
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
New York Deco (Deluxe Edition) -- limited
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
Great Buildings of San Francisco: A Photographic Guide
Dover Pubns, November 1979. Oversize Softcover. More
Julian Bicknell: Designs & Buildings, 1980-2000
Julian Bicknell & Associates, 2000. Limited. Hardcover. Limited & numbered edition: 10/500. Oblong quarto. 16 & 1/2' x 12'; In heavy beige cloth covered slipcase with foxing toward margins. Olive green faux leather spine & corners with gold lettering on spine edge and gold emblem stamp in center of front..... More
Romanesque Architectural Criticism
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
A Monograph of the Works of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915. New Edition. Four volumes in one.
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
Body, Memory, and Architecture
Yale University Press, September 1977. Paper Back. "A valuable contribution."--Paul Goldberger, New York Times "Nearly every page of the book is wittily illustrated with cartoons, drawings, and photographs. If the coming generation or architects--and their clients--pay attention to it, America may someday be a much more agreeable place."--John Fischer, Harpers..... More
City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments
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
