G P Putnam's Sons, November 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. {6&3/8th' x 9&3/4'} In well worn jacket with large roughly torn & creased tear top of rear panel. Tan end pages with non-authorial inscription which fills 'entire page' with mostly one wandering line between words 'entire' and 'page'. Dust stains/foxing/soiling on..... More
World Publishing-A Meridian Bo, January 1973. Trade Paperback. More
NYU Press, July 1990. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn jacket with one inch tear at top of front panel at spine. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [415 pages]. More
Watson-Guptill Publications, October 1996. Oversized Hardcover. A practical and inspiring sourcebook, this lavish volume captures the cutting edge of the residential architecture of the American West in a format to treat the eyes of professionals and consumers alike. Provocative text probes the concepts underlying the ingenuity and beauty that has..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 1995. Oversize Softcover. No mere survey of famous buildings, Kostof's History examines an inclusive spectrum of manmade structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids at Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. Indeed, Kostof considered every building worthy of..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. In his landmark book "The Geography of Nowhere" James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not merely a symptom of a troubled culture, but..... More
Academy Pr, August 1991. Oversize Softcover. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the printblock. More
University of Washington Press, May 1991. Trade Paperback. Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subject matter from world fairs and everyday domestic objects to American West coast architecture and French and Italian furniture..... More
Hastings House, January 1951. First Edition. Cloth. {7' X 9 & 3/4'} Dustjacket is missing. Gold lettering front panel & spine edge. Cloth spine is darkened by sun tanning. Scattering of grey & white spots and small streaks. Front end page shows 'A rudimentary map of the labyrinth of Beauport..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, September 2022. Hardcover. One of the world's greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built--from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore--and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in societyOver more than five decades..... More
Reaktion Books, October 2007. Paper Back. From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn..... More
Yale University Press, November 2009. Hardcover. Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to come to grips with how things feel to us..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2001. Paper Back. A national bestseller, Brunelleschi's Dome recounts how one genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to engineer the impossible--the construction of a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in 1418. An ALA Notable Book of the Year. Illustrations..... More
Metro Books, January 2010. Flexible Boards. More
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, October 1993. Hardcover. The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New..... More
Dover Publications, March 1979. Oversize Softcover. The late 19th-century protest against machine-age artificiality which spawned the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, engendered a distinct American offshoot: the Craftsman, or Mission style. Gustav Stickley's handsome magazine "The Craftsman" (1901-16) became the voice of that style, seeking beauty and creativity in..... More
Dodd, Mead, October 1911. Cloth. {6 & 3/4' x 9'} Red cloth covered boards with gold letterring on front panel and along spine. Some give to spine. Heavy foxing to internal pages. Gilt top stain is heavily dust stained. Deckled fore-edge is likewise dust stained & foxed. Illustrated by the..... More
Rizzoli, June 1989. Oversize Softcover. Traces the life and career of the American architect and shows his designs for homes, schools, chapels, apartment buildings, and banks. More
Viking, January 1983. Reprint. Cloth. Oblong octavo in stained/soiled dustjacket. Front flap top corner is cut out. Ochre cloth covered boards with gold letterin along spine which is deeply slanted. Heavy dust stained/foxed textblock edges. Yellow end pages soiling & foxing. [160 pages]. More
Crown Publishers, September 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio in chipped, torn, & damp stained dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Dark green cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Teal paper covered boards. Faded at margins. Complete number string. Foxing. [159 pages]. More
Harvard University Press, October 2002. Trade Paperback. THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION. THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION. More
David & Charles Publishers, January 2002. Oversize Softcover. Intended for anyone who wants to restore original features in an Edwardian house, or simply to create the light gentility of that period in a modern home, this book looks at each room in turn, as well as the exterior and garden..... More
Phaidon Press, April 1997. Oversized Hardcover. This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century. Since the collapse..... More
Henry Holt & Company, August 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Rizzoli, October 2004. Oversized Hardcover. For those interested in contemporary permutations of neo-classical architecture, this volume offers a photo essay of the work of 14 architectural firms. Among them are Robert Adam Architects Ltd, Norman Davenport Askins, John Blatteau Associates, Fairfax & Sammons, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Michael G. Imber..... More
