Tokyo: On the Table, 1986. The English edition of prior Japanese monograph on the Takara House, where Kawamata "borrowed a room in a rental apartment which is in Tokyo, and at there, I make and show my work for two weeks." First edition thus. 24 cm; 10 pp.; illustrated from.....
Tokyo: On the Table, 1986. The English edition of prior Japanese monographs on the Tetra House, Kawamata’s project to cover a building with lumber. First edition thus. 24 cm; 26 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Crease to front cover; else a very good copy in pictorial wrappers. $75.00.
Barcelona: Actar, n.d. [c. 1997]. A 1996 study by Sejima & Associates analyzing "the functional definition and grouping strategies of the constituent parts of an apartment, a building, a block, and a neighborhood ...to propose alternative forms of collective housing which respond to different conditions of density in the city.".....
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., (1958). A survey mid-century American residential architecture from the pages of House Beautiful, featuring work by FLW, Joseph Esherick, others, with photographs by Ezra Stoller, others. First edition. Folio; 144 pp.; illustrated from color photographs and plans. A very good copy in a chipped and.....
Bronx: Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1999. Catalog for the 1999 exhibition of a diverse collection of works to examine the ways in which artists have responded to the changing urban landscape of the Bronx, and its shifting image in the mass media. The rapid decline of the Bronx has.....
Middletown: Grantha, 1998. First American Edition. Cloth. A monograph on the major Hill Stations in India, including Simla, Naini Tal, Mussoorie, and Ootacamund. First American edition. 30 cm; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs, drawings, and maps. Owner's inscription; else a very good copy or better in a lightly used dust.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1969). Eckbo, a landscape architect, presents an early exploration of the need for environmentally-based design. Later printing. 4to; 223 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original cloth, with a torn dust jacket.
Cambridge: MIT, 1989, 1988. Alberti's "De re aedificatoria", the first modern (1450) treatise on the theory and practice of architecture, translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavenor. Second prtg.; 25 cm; 442 pp.; illustrated from plans and drawings. Bookseller label to rear pastedown; else a very good copy.....
The MIT Press, 1988, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Monograph on Gordon Bunshaft, American modernist and designer of the Lever Building, Chase Bank Plaza, and other iconic works of 20th century American architecture. First edition. 26 cm; 357 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine.....
Acanthus Press, 1996, 1996. First Edition. Cloth. A slightly reduced reprint of Lindeberg's 1940 limited edition monograph (Acanthus Press Reprint Series. 20th Century, Landmarks in Design, V. 6). With an essay for this edition by Mark Alan Hewitt. 30.5 cm; 310 pp.; illustrated form photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine.....
New Haven: Yale /BGC 2013, 2013. Catalogue for the 2013 exhibition on the work of William Kent originating at the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts and then traveling to the V&A Museum. First edition. 31 cm; 688 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in original.....
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2013, 2013. A study of the ephemeral architecture and displays created for large-scale public and private celebrations in England during the Georgian period. First edition. 28 cm; 255 pp.; illustrated from drawings and plans. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
London: Philip Wilson, 1996. The 11th monograph in the Waddesdon series is an account of the origins of the house, designed by Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur in 1877, with essays on the interior panelling both at Waddesdon and throughout the 18th- to the 20th century, and with a complete catalog of the.....
Aurum Press, 1999, 1999. First Edition. Cloth. A survey of the English manor type of country house, as shown in the pages of "Country Life" magazine. Many of these houses, dating from as early as the 15th century, had fallen into neglect; newly wealthy industrial barons hired architects to restore.....
Harry N. Abrams, 1999, 1999. First Edition. Cloth. A survey of 20 of Taniguchi's major work, from his earliest project, the Shiseido Art Museum, to his redesign of MOMA (completed in 2004). With an essay by Fumihiko Maki. First edition. 28 cm; 282 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1986. Catalog for the 1986 exhibition at Occidental of photographs and drawings for buildings on the Occidental campus designed by the architect Myron Hunt. This copy inscribed by the author. First edition. 27.5 cm; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plan, and drawings. A fine copy in.....
Santa Monica, California, U.S.A. Hennessey & Ingalls, 1984. Catalog for the 1984 exhibition at the Baxter Gallery of Hunt's work in Chicago at the turn of the century and in Southern California from 1903 until 1952. First edition. 4to; 120 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light spotting to.....
Madrid: Spanish Ministry of Culture / IBM, 1990. Pamphlet documenting the designing and development of a computerized information system for the Archivo General de Indias, the headquarters for documents on the history of the discovery of the new world and Spanish administration in America.
Newburyport: Newburyport Press, 1968. A biography of the "Bad Boy Mayor" of Newburyport, MA. First edition. 23 cm; 101 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in a worn dust jacket.
Malibu: Getty, 2010. Issue number 2. Articles by or about N. Pevsner, Eisenman, R Araeen, Piranesi, S. Wagstaff, others. First edition. 25 cm; 217 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Crease to front cover, wear to bottom of spine; else a good copy or better in wrappers.
Prestel, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. Catalog to accompany an exhibition of teaching materials, school furniture, and school architecture that Maria Montessori proposed for nursery and school children. With work by Gunther Benisch and Herman Hertzberger. Text in English and German. First edition. 30 cm; 158 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A......
New York: Chamber of Commerce Washington Heights and Inwood, N.d. [c.1998]. Promotional pamphlet extolling the virtues of Inwood and Washington Heights. Sections on architecture, history, parks, monuments, transportation, museums, etc. First edition. 21.5 cm; 50 pp.; illustrated from photographs and maps. A very good copy in wrappers.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987. Showing work by Neil Denari, others. First edition. 8vo; illustrated from drawings and photographs. Owner's name; crease to corner front cover; else a good copy or better in wrappers.
ART PAPER EDITIONS, 2015, 2015. A collection of Mulyan's photographs of foreign embassy interiors. First edition, One of 500 copies. 28 cm; 76 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in wrappers.
Kisisel Yayinlar, 2005, 2005. An exploration of the urban issues confronting modern day Turkey. First edition. 23 cm; 344 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Book is fine but has a complicated dust jacket that shows wear and some tearing.
