CAC Hadid Studio Yale
New York, New York, U.S.A. Monacelli Pr, 2002. First edition. Illustrated. VG.
Results
Critical Productive: A Journal of Architecture Urbanism and Cultural Theory : V1.1 Theoretic Action (Autumn 2011)
First edition. Oblong 4to; 135 pp.; illustrated. Justin Doro on Washington DC; branding the 1968 olympics; Selma; etc.
Designed Landscape Forum I
Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S.A. Whitney Library of Design, 1998. First edition. Sqaure 4to; 213 pp.; illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Fountain Pen Hospital: the Annual 2003
Newe York: Fountain Pen Hospital, 2003. First edition. 4to; illustrated,. Fine copy in original wrappers. Price list laid-in.
Glass '78 in Japan
Tokyo: Japan Glass Artcrafts Association, (1978). First edition. UNMARKED. Square 8vo; unpaged [approx. 200] illustrated from photographs and drawings. Closed tear to rear wrapper; else a VG copy in original pictorial wrappers. Paperback. Catalog for 1978 Japanese exhibition of contemporary glassware. Text in Japanese; some English names in captions...
RES 34 Autumn 1998: Architecture
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Peabody Museum of Archaeology &, 1998. Fine copy. Inlcudes articles by or about Jospeh Rykwert, renaissance architectural literature, serlio's military city, etc.
Some of the Latest Models of the Finnish Rugs
1938, 1938. Illustrated catalogue of Finnish rugs of contemporary as well as traditional designs. Illustrated in color. Text in Finnish.
Miguel Angel Roca
New York: Academy/St, Martin's Press, (1985). Second edition. Square 4to; 190 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original wrappers. Early monograph on the work of the Argentine architect and planner. Text in english and Portuguese.
Wodehouse on Crime: A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning
New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1981, 1981. First edition. Light spotting to top edge, else a very good copy or better in a dust jacket with minor wear to spine and corners, else very good. Foreword by Isaac Asimov.
Jade 16 West 19th Street
Brooklyn: 16 West 19th LLC, N.d [2010]. Finally. I thought it would never happen but there is now a building in New York named for Jade Jagger. But the real star here is Andy Warhol. He'd been dead for about 80 years by the time this thing was published, but.....
Wall Papers
Philadelphia: A. L. Diament & Co., N.d. [c. 1900]. "[S]uggestions as to the treatment of rooms [and] very inviting and attractive showing of Wall Papers that we are offering this season." Showing typical rooms of a house, many in color, decorated with wall papers. Rooms decorated with paper panels, borders.....
Projects and Final Buildings Volume III /Projets et Dernieres Oeuvres / Projekte Und Letzte Bauten
Zürich: Artemis, (1978). First edition. Oblong 4to; 240 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Owner's embossed stamp to endpaper; else a very good copy or better in original cloth in a verygood dust jacket with light wear to top of spine. The third and final volume of the collected.....
Alvar Aalto Volume III: Projects and Final Buildings
Zurich: Verlag Fur Architecture, 1978. The final volume in the Collected Aalto, "Projects and Final Buildings." Text in English, French, and German. First edition. 22.5 cm; 240 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Owner's embossed stamp; else a very good copy in gray cloth, in a very good dust.....
New Natures: Intermodal Station in Logrono
Madrid: Q!, 2013. First Edition. Soft Cover. An urban planning project, intermodal station, urban park and five residential tower blocks in the Spanish city of Legrono, designed by Abalos+Sentkiewicz, Architects. First edition. 16.5 cm; 119 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light wear to spine and edges of overlapping.....
The Marvelous Creations of Joseffy
Chicago: Open Court, 1908. First edition. 8vo; 24 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Binding copy only; wrappers separated at spine and detached; title page loose but present; else a clean copy in original damaged wrappers.
Hitoshi Abe / On-the-Spot Michigan Architecture Papers 14
Ann Arbor: Taubman School of Architecture, 2008. Monograph on recent work by Abe, published in conjunction with Abe's selection to deliver the Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture. With an emphasis on design and construction methods and innovations. First edition. 23 cm; 122 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy.....
Civil Engineering:History, Heritage, and the Humanities /Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Maillart
Princeton: Princeton University, 1972. Background papers for the Second National Conference devoted to the work of the Swiss engineer and bridge designer. With contributions from David Billington and Robert Mark.First edition. 4to; 102 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original wrappers.
Stratford-upon-Avon: Report on Future Development
Lodon: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. Report commissioned by the Stratford-upon-Avon Preservation Committee to provide a survey of its present condition, and the role of imminent industrialization. Abercrombie suggests a policy of self-interest which avoids inconsiderate development and inconsiderate conservatism, a system in which local interests serve the interests of national.....
George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design
Cambridge MIT, 1995. Classic monograph on Nelson's work in product and furniture design, packaging, graphics, office and exhibition design, etc. With bibliographies and biographical information. First edition. 25.5 cm; 353 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with faded spine.
Aberthaw Engineering - Construction Service
Boston: Aberthaw Co., (1925). First edition. 4to; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in original string-bound wrappers with illustration affixed to front cover. Trade catalog for the Boston-based construction/engineering company, showing examples of factory and office buildings, dams, drydocks, etc. built around the country.
In Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York, with the Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar at U. Penn
Philadelphia: Slought, 2008. DVD of Acconci's seminar. Witha acompanion CD, For Your Ears Only, a selection of audio works by the multi-faceted artist. Two discs, fine in folding case.
First Light
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1989), 1989. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with tiny rubbed spot to bottom of rear panel.
More Memoirs of an Aesthete
London: Methuen & Co., (1970). First edition. 8vo; 388 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Owner's name; light soiling to fore edge; spine rubbed; else a good copy in original blue cloth, lacking the dust jacket. The second volume of Acton's memoirs.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Courses in City and Regional Planning
Cambridge, MIT, 1942. Brochure describing the curriculum and faculty of the graduate and undergraduate Planning programs at MIT. Laid-in is a circular promoting the 1945 City and Regional Planning Fall Conference at the school. 22.5 cm; 9 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in printed wrappers.
The Automobile in American Life
DeARBORN: HENRY FORD MUSEUM, 1987. First edition. 8vo; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in original wrappers. Catalog for an exhibition of the role of the automobile in American life from the 1896 Duryea Motor Wagon.