Knopf, September 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal..... More
Rizzoli, April 1990. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback with cardstock jacket. Edgeworn, heavily at top of spine. Clean, unmarked interiors. [344 pages]. More
MIT Press (MA), January 1990. Oversized Hardcover. In this study of the process of decision-making about building and urban planning in Venice, the author examines the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century to the first decades of the 17th to show how that process affected..... More
MIT Press (MA), December 1976. Hardcover. Covers somewhat faded and pages a little toned. Jacket is rubbed chipped and edgeworn. More
Yale University Press, November 1985. Oversize Softcover. More
Mit Pr, July 1989. Hardcover. Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This new collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with..... 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
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, July 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
The Monacelli Press, October 1997. Oversized Hardcover. Richardson's brief career (born in 1838, he practiced from 1865 until his death in 1886) coincided with a time when the newly urbanized United States required an unprecedented number of new buildings of all types. To meet this need, Richardson melded medieval, vernacular..... 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
Birkhäuser Basel, July 1994. Oversize Softcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 1996. Oversize Softcover. Internationally famous for such buildings as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (as well as for the ubiquitous Breuer chair), Marcel Breuer thrived on experimentation. From the 1950s through the 1970s, he and his associate Herbert Beckhard created..... More
