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
Tomás Taveira
St Martins Pr, January 1991. Hardcover. Spine/hinges worn from use, binding still intact; Clean, sturdy red cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt at spine; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose. More
Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture
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
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
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
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
The MIT Press, July 1980. Trade Paperback. First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced a...... More
Lettering on Architecture
Whitney Library of Design, January 1976. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to the dust jacket. More
Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirtiedesign, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirt (Revised
Thames & Hudson, October 1999. Oversize Softcover. Art Deco's sheer exuberance ensured its success across the globe and it adapted to the most diverse situations, as shown by examples ranging from offices in Europe and gas stations in America to maharajahs' palaces in India and imperial dwellings in Japan. Public..... More
Visions of Place: Regionalism and Architecture
School of Architecture, Univ. of MD, January 2010. Trade Paperback. 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
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
Ruskinian Gothic: The Architecture of Deane and Woodward, 1845-1861
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
