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New York: Queens Museum of Art, 2001. Catalog/checklist for the 2001 exhibition examining the "exchange between architecture and design that informs Ponti's achievements." Showing 44 examples of his furniture and decorative art. First edition. 28 cm; large sheet folded three times. Illustrated from photographs. Roughly handled with some minor creasing;.....
Chicago: U of C Press, 1990. A monograph on the design and construction of the English country house, begun in 1699 to the design of Vanbrugh and completed 1811. First American edition. 24.5 cm; 221 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust.....
Concord: Rumford, 1974. Early work by the eminent Boston architectural historian, presenting his life-long passions--Cram, ecclesiastical architecture, neo-Gothicism, Boston--in this overview of Boston's ecclesiatical structures. First edition. 20 cm; 134 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers.
Tokyo: A& U, 1978. Iss 78:01 of this Japanese architectural periodica, this issue devoted to Venturi and Rauch. With essays by Venturi, Charles Moore.Text in English and Japanese. 29 cm; 136 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Wear to top of spine; else a very good copy in wrappers.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. A monograph on the Los Angeles architect, active from the 1920's to the 1970's, and a popular designer of conventional houses as well as houses for movie stars. Williams also designed commercial buildings, stores, churches, and office buildings.First paperback edition. 30.5 cm;.....
London: Nattali & Maurice, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. The original 88-part publication, with 18 of the revised and enlarged views published in 1847, collected with an introduction by Jackson. Tallis's drawings are accurate elevations of both sides of the pricipal streets, offering a unique source of topographical history of.....
London: John Tiranti & Co., 1946. Hard Cover. An attempt to define the principle of manners and to incorporate it as an essential element of architectural theory. "This book asks the novel question, how do buildings behave towards one another?" Second edition, reprinting the text of the first edition with.....
Wien: MAK, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Catalog for the 2005 exhibition of Woods' plans "anticipating the destruction of Vienna in hopes of a re-construction." The exhibition was an experimental sketch of Vienna's 1st district, and showed how it might find a way to change, even radically, without rejecting its.....
Cambridge MIT, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. A publication from the RPA focusing on urban pedestrian circulation and amenties as being most pertinent to the city center. Directed at urban planners, the work provides policy makers with quantitative methods of proportioning pedestrian space in downtowns in relation to the adjoining.....
Austin: U. Texas, 2014. First Edition. Hard Cover. Focused case studies embodying a "fresh look" at postwar modern architecture, asking what it meant to be "modern", the role modernism played in constructing modern identities, and the sanctioning of the movement in more authoritarian environments. First edition. 25.5 cm; 290 pp.;.....
Eskisehir: OMM, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover. Monograph on the Turkish Museum designed by Kengo Kuma with a distinctive wooden exterior. Text in English and Turkish. First editon. 28 cm; 111 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in die-cut boards.
New York: Braziller, (1974), 1974. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. First American edition. 8vo; 128 pp.; 120 illustrations from photographs, plans, and drawings; bibliography. A very good paperback copy in pictorial wrappers. A survey of the French architect's work, with an emphasis on his anti-rococo sentiments and the role he.....
New York: Regional Plan Association, Inc., (1933), 1933. First edition. 4to; 142 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, drawings, and four folding maps. Owner's name; else a very good copy in wrappers. The follow-up volume, published two years after the final volume in the 10-volume plan, a richly illustrated "report of.....
New York: Seville, N.d. (c. 1905). Promotional brochure with map and floor plan for the hotel, meal plans and amenities, rates, transportation, etc. Pocket-sized at 13.5 cm; 10 pp.; map of neighborhood (GCT to Madison Sq.) with floor plan to the verso tipped-in; illustrated with perspective drawing of building, sketches.....
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1996). 8vo; 290 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in wrappers. Critical biography on the great 19th century American horticulturist and architect. paperback.
Philadelphia: Ladies' Home Journal,1911. Feb. 1911 issue with mostly architectural features, including bungalows presented by Galt, building small houses, renovating, interior design and decoration, barn conversion, etc. 41 cm; 44 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A good copy in wrappers.
London: A. D. 1999. Sequel to Hypersurface I. Showing work by Diller & Scofidio, Frank Stella, others. First edition. 30.5 cm; 112 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Crease to rear cover; else a very good copy or better in pictorial wrappers.
New York: TeNeues, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. A monograph on the work of the Portuguese architect. Text in English, German, French, and Italian. First edition. 22 cm; 79 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1983. "Home sweet home with a sense of place made by children or children grown up of adobe or wood or covered with stucco and drenched in dreams." An examination of American vernacular domestic architecture including the ranch house, plank house, bungalow, houses.....
Syracuse: Syracuse School of Architecture, 2022. First Edition. Soft Cover. An exploration of design frameworks pursued by three architecture workshops in London. The book is anchored by three visual essays by prominent London architects "Craft & Ruin" by Owen Watson of 6a architects, "Work & Home" by Hikaru Nissanke &.....
Philadelphia: Solidon Products, 1929. "This booklet explains Solidon, the material that takes the place of plaster. An attractive little flyer promoting the doomed plaster substitute. Showng some houses and buildings using the product. 24 cm; 15 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Smaller illustrated pamphlet laid-in. Spotting to covers; else.....
New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1977. First Edition. Soft Cover. Catalog for the 1977 exhibition, "the first of a series of architectural exhibitions at Castelli, presents the work and idea of seven outstanding international architects, their ages spanning 34 to 56..." Showing drawings by Raimund Abraham, Ambasz, Meier, Walter Pichler.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover. The architects describe their work in the relocation of the Barnes Foundation collection from an arboretum in Merion PA, to a new building in downtown Philadelphia, conceived as "a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery." INSCRIBED by the.....
Basel: Birkhaeuser Verlag, (1999). First Edition. Hard Cover. A monograph on the work of the German-born American architect, covering the years 1956-1985. First American edition. Square 8vo; 198 pp.; illustrated from plans, drawings, and from photographs by Ezra Stoller and others. A fine copy in original pictorial boards, published without.....
N.p.: Crestwood Hills Press, N.d. [2020]. A monograph on the architecture of David Wyn Roberts, particularily the college residential buildings of the 1950s-1970s, located in Cambridge, England, and throughout the UK. First edition. 25.5 cm; 190 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
