Trevian Books
New York: Press of the AIA, Inc., 1926. Brunner was an American architect educated at MIT and active at the turn of the century in New York. His career began with George Post but in1898 he independently won the competition for the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, and soon.....
Allentown, 1965. Large brochure commemorating the opening of the county’s new court house designed by local Allentown firm Wolfe & Hahn. With photographs of interiors, offices, plaza, etc. First edition. 28 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in embossed wrappers.
Denver: B of A, 2013. A Guidebook to the 2013 edition of the Biennial art and architecture program, with an agenda that calls for "fundamentally new visions of urban life...with four temporary architectural projects" being constructed in the downtown core. First edition. 18 cm; 79 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A......
New York: Privately Published, 1929. Biographical tribute to Eidlitz, son of legendary 19th century New York builder Marc Eidlitz, and head of the Eidlitz firm until 1928. First edition. 24.5 cm; 55 pp.; illustrated from two photographs; gilt to all edges; light wear to spine ends; else a very good.....
New York: The Architectural League of New York, 1922. A combination yearbook of the ALNY, with lists of members, and a catalogue of the annual exhibition of members' work. Featuring examples of work in domestic and landscape architecture, sculpture, ecclesiastical architecture, decorative painting, and public and commercial buildings and monuments.....
New York: City Planning Commission, 1965. A study of New York's renewal strategy for the mid-sixties. The first chapters deal with the city's housing and renewal priorities, followed by chapters dealing with housing programs that involve redevelopment and restoration. Report developed to be presented to the incoming Lindsay administration, which.....
Warsaw: Arkady, 1986. A collection of reproductions of Nowicki’s sketches and designs, and photographs of his built projects. Nowicki was a Russian-born and Warsaw-trained architect who eventually settled in the US and was associated with the planning of Chandigarh, various projects in North Carolina, and the Brandeis campus. Since his.....
New York: Black, Starr and Frost, 1912. Part company history, part monograph on the company’s new building at Fifth Ave. & 48th Street designed by Carrere & Hastings. Showing interiors, show rooms, workshops and setting rooms. With bookplate of Witherbee Black, third-generation owner. First edition. 22 cm; 27 pp.; illustrated.....
Milan: San Rocco, 2015. The Summer 2015 issue of this periodical is devoted to the 15th-century Italian architect Donato Bramante. First edition. 23 cm; 143 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers.
Copenhagen: Cobe, n.d. [c. 2019]. Large promotional booklet describing Paper Island, a previously non-residential man-made working island in the Copenhagen harbor, now open for residential development to be complete by 2023. With a history of the industrial island, a description of the residences designed by Dan Stubbergaard and Cobe, and.....
Key West: Scarma Bay, 1992. Odd little promotional booklet for the Key West hotel, describing the original building as designed by Carrere & Hastings, Henry Flagler’s house architects, in 1920. With a bizarre focus on the weather, Flagler, too much Key West info, and details of the endless expansion and.....
Buffalo: Buffalo Landmark Society, 1993. Catalog for the exhibition, "Buffalo's City Hall: The Politics of Architecture and Design". as well as a guide to the building, designed in 1929 by John G. Wade. First edition. 25.5 cm; 40 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.....
New Orleans: Louisiana Landmark Society, 1978. Catalog for the 1978 exhibition showing photographs of plantation houses including Woodlawn, Greenwood, and Belle Grove, outbuildings, churches, as well as row houses and stores in New Orleans. An outstanding selection of images taken by Koch, a local architect, most dating from the 1930s.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Flagg's efforts to promote his new building technique based on stone walls, a modular system of design, and standardized parts and methods. Enormous number of illustrations based on small houses for Flagg's Flegg Ridge Estate at Dongan Hills, Staten Island. Scarce. First edition. Folio;.....
Boston: Albert Foster, n.d. [c.1897]. Promotional brochure for the development at Fairbanks Park, Dedham. "Homes for Nothing! That is, nothing more than you now pay for rent. Desirable people can buy our artistic modern homes with large lawns...for $20 to $50 per month." This, beneath photographs of 2- and 3-storied.....
Munich: Detail, 2007. "The designing architect and the creative cook are at best artists who are looking with intensive passion for the ideal form and the perfect taste." Selected recipes from a mostly Euro-centric selection of architects, with dishes prepared and presented to sometimes reflect theory, construction, or effect. Text.....
New York: BCRE, 2006. An impressionistic documentation of the restoration of the Cass Gilbert building at 90 West St., which only just survived the 9/11 attack. The 2004 restoration work undid renovations from 1930-1950 made to modernize the building’s lobbies and interiors, ultimately revealing Gilbert’s original 1907 designs. First edition.....
Darmstadt: Hessisches Landesmuseum, 1964. Catalog for the major 1964 retrospective exhibition of the work of the Viennese architect Otto Wagner. Featuring drawings, plans, and photographs of built projects. With text by Graf. Text in German. First edition. 20 cm; 98 pp.; illustrated. Title hand-lettered to spine chipped at the foot;.....
New York: HHPA, 1988. Booklet presenting the firm’s plans for expansion and renovation of the museum and its grounds, opened in 1964. Not adopted, but report sets "guidelines for future development of the Museum and its site to provide an appropriate setting for a major cultural institution..." First edition. 27.5.....
Seoul: Kimoondang, 2007. Monograph on the architecture of the Heyri Art Valley community in South Korea. With a catalog of architects and designers. Each building, commercial and residential, with a photograph, elevation. A fine copy in wrappers.
New York: Howard Studios, n.d. [c. 1910]. Trade catalog for the Francis Howard Studios, importers and manufacturers of garden ornaments "antique & modern". Includes examples of stonework for mantels, entrance ways, small buildings and loggias, etc. 26.5 cm; 40 pp.; illustrated from photographs and from drawings by Howard. Sales agents.....
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Catalog for the HGSD 1989 exhibition of recent work by Walker, an adjunct professor at GSD as well as principal partner of Peter Walker and Associates. With errata slip laid in. First edition. 22 cm; 71 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good.....
New York: Scribners’s, 1935. An analysis of design, concentrating on data to define its essence, to evidence its rarity, and to demonstrate the strange way it colors every activity of life. The emphasis is on the Asian roots of art. First edition. 4to; 204 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Backstrip rubbed;.....
London: Academy Editions, 1997. Monograph on the work of the two principals of Future Tents Limited, Dalland and Goldsmith. Showing work with tensile structures both temporary and permanent, as well as examples of conventional hard designs. My favorite photo caption: Dalland and Goldsmith cleaning up after the riot at the.....
Berkeley: University of California, 1965. Anshen and Allen won a closed 1965 competition among five invited architecture firms including Louis I. Kahn, SOM, Eero Saarinen and Associates, and Vernon DeMars. The program called for a large 200-foot planetarium, eight assembly halls, a science education center with classrooms, laboratories, a television.....
