Trevian Books
New York: Home Title Guaranty Co., 1948. Published as a guide for architects, builders, and lending institutions whose activities are affected by the provisions of the Resolution which was revamped in 1940, with subsequent amendments to 1948. First edition. 27 cm; pp. ix, 95; illustrated from plans and drawings. A......
New York: J. G. Wilson Corp., n.d. (c. 1925). Trade catalog for the manufacturer of decorative wooden folding room dividers and partitions. Showing fourteen installations in situ, identifying location and architect. 28 cm; 16 pp.; illustrated from photographs and text figures. A fine copy in string-bound embossed wrappers.
Los Angeles: Dresslar H’dw’e Co., n.d. (1926). Trade catalog for the Dresslar Hardware store on W. Washington St. in Los Angeles, specializing in builders hardware and offering a variety of goods to Los Angeles homeowners. Photographs show new construction of houses and commercial buildings outfitted by the company, naming architects.....
New York: Julius Lowy, n.d. (c. 2010). Catalog showing eight gilt frames designed by White, a struggling New York architect trying to make ends meet with free-lance frame designing. 28 cm; large sheet folded twice; 6 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy.
Burlington: Sunderland & Schmitt, n.d. (1895). Trade catalog and pattern book for the Burlington, IA architects showing perspective drawings and plans for houses in a variety of styles designed by them. With a price list and a few drawings of interior details. 31.5 cm; unpaged [90, (14 ads)]; illustrated from.....
New York: University Club, 2009. A monograph on the library ceiling in the club designed by Charles McKim, inspired by the Pinturicchio frescoes in the Borgia Apartments in Rome and painted by H. Siddons Mowbray. First edition. 25 cm; 48 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers.
Paris: Review Urbanisme, 2005. June/July 2005 issue devoted to Corbusier, with special attention to Les Unités d'Habitation at Marseille. Text in French. 30 cm; 80 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers.
Padova: Pei Fratelli Gamba, 1832. (Half-title: Descrizione del Caffè di Pedrocchi eretto in Padova ed aperto il di IX giugno MDCCCXXXI. Colophon: Padova: Dalla tipografia e fonderia della Minerva.) A description of the interior and exterior of this legendary Paduan coffee house as designed by Venetian architect Guiseppe Jappelli in.....
London: Fumehurst, 1979. Gehry describes his house in Santa Monica. Also Aalto's Essen Opera House, Foster's proposed Whitney addition. A grand, large style privately published architectural mag the likes of which we will not see again. 28 cm; 72 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy.....
New Orleans: Curtis & Davis, 1976. Curtis’s firm was selected to design and build the giant stadium. After an introduction of unequaled pretension Curtis describes his firm’s selection, their design and engineering achievements, and a tour of the finished product, eight years after concept. 23 cm; 43 pp.; illustrated from.....
Lugano: Banco Gottardo, 1988. Botta contributes a brief essay, "A Bank and its City," in this promotional booklet which is filled mostly with photographs of interiors, though a few do show the striking Bottavian monumentality of the project. Text in English, French, German, and Italian. 21 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated.....
New York: Atlantic Terra Cotta Co., 1924. Terra cotta for molded detail with stone ashlar blocks in classic Greek designs. Showing work at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, San Antonio TX. 28 cm; 16 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Soft crease to covers; else a good copy in wrappers...
Barcelona: Ediciones UPC, 1996. A survey of documents, illustrations, and teaching materials at the Barcelona school, dating from its founding in 1871. Text in English, Spanish, and Catalan. First edition. 28.5 cm; 173 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine...
New York: Munn & Co., 1891. Color plates show a perspective drawing of a three-story “Colonial Cottage” and a row of houses in Philadelphia. Other photographs, perspective drawings, and plans show completed work at Brookline, MA, Narberth Park and Chestnut Hill PA, and Syracuse. First edition. Folio (29 x 41.....
New York: Munn & Co., 1886. Color plates show a house at Flatbush by architect H.J. Harris of New York City, and a "Cottage" at Monmouth Beach, NJ by architect T. A Roberts & Sons of Newark. Color plates from these issues are useful in determining contemporary colors used in.....
New York: Architectural Record, 1936. Reprint (without ads) of the February 1936 issue of The Architectural Record devoted to the low-cost private house that can be built for less than $4,000. With detailed analysis of technical needs, furniture and fittings, etc. Showing designs or finished houses by J. André Fouilhoux.....
Kyoto: Kyomachia Council, 2011-2016. Machiyas are Kyoto’s traditional town houses in a style dating from the Edo period. Their rapid disappearance has been a concern. The restoration of one Machia, Kamanza Cho-ie, is documented in the first volume. The second volume is concerned with the critical roles of proper surveys.....
New York: MOMA, 1968. Catalog for the 1968 MOMA exhibition exploring international museum concepts. Examples were chosen with consideration of technical aspects of design such as circulation, lighting, installations, and an ambience congenial to the values of the collection and the contemplative needs of the patron/viewer. First edition. 21.5 cm;.....
Paris: A. Sinjon, 1928. A collection of 56 photographic plates documenting contemporary French interiors as well as more conventional rustic decoration, the latter mostly in commercial applications. Showing examples of work in apartments, shops, hotels, ocean liners, country houses, restaurants, etc. by Patout, E. Lecompte, G. Raymond, A.Thomas, Guindez, others.....
Washington DC: NEA, 1977. "31 architects, 3 landscape architects, 2 designers, 1 historian and 1 city planner contacted 40,000 students at 16 middle, 25 elementary, and"17 high schools in 27 towns and cities.” A detailed report on the first year of this NEA-sponsored program. First edition. 21.5 cm; 75 pp.;.....
Chicago: P + W, 2010. A self-published history of the firm highlighting recent projects in architecture and planning, with too much title and too much design. First edition. 24 cm; 162 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light spoiling to white covers, else a very good copy or better.....
Leipzig, 2020. Catalog for the 2020 exhibition of work by artists celebrating the Niemyer Sphere in Leipzig. Showing work by Andreas Gursky, Wolfgang Tillmans, Niemeyer, others. Text in English, German, and Portuguese. First edition. 18.5 cm; 65 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in laminated boards, published without a......
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.
New York: Fairchild, 2009. An imaginary dialogue between a "philosopher" and an architect designed to help students of design and architecture think critically about their most basic assumptions, First edition. 22.5 cm; 296 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in wrappers.
Santiago De Chile: Editora Panamerica Ltda., 1995. Monograph on the work of the Chilean architect Mario Paredes. With essays and interview and an analysis of 20 of the architect's major works from 1978-1996. Text in Spanish; essays and interview in English and Spanish. First edition. 27 cm; illustrated from photographs.....
