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Paris: ALDE, 2014. Catalog for the 2014 auction of a substantial library of 148 classical architectural texts, each entry showing binding (many contemporary) and illustrations from text (some folding, some two-page spreads). Includes works by Alberti, Vitruve, Piranesi, Ledoux, and "ephemeral" items, titles related to Versailles, plans for royal buildings.....
.A recent map of the cemetery showing "Points of Interest", access roads, etc. Anonymous. 53 x 53 cm sheet folded. In fine conditioN.
Boston: SAH, 1983. Program for the day-long bus tour of cottages designed by Richardson, MMW, W. G. Rantoul, Ware and Van Brunt, George Dexter, and William Ralph Emerson. With illustrations and excerpts from published sources. 28 cm; 25 Xeroxed sheets printed recto only in stapled wrappers; illustrated from photographs and.....
Rome: L'Erma, 2003. Catalog for the National Museum of Damascus's exhibition of life-sized casts of Trajan's Column, designed by the Damascan architect Apollodorus in 113 CE. First English edition. 24 cm; 67 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
New Haven: Yale University School of Art and Architecture, (1967), 1967. First edition. 4to; 227 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in silver foil-clad vinyl wrappers. A grab-bag of 60's ballers, with contributions from Charles W. Moore, Shadrach Woods, R. Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, James Stirling.....
London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. Basically a trade catalog for the German architect and planner, featuring his domestic work in Hamburg. He offers a brief description of each house, explaining the circumstances of the design and sometimes including interior details: "The arrangement of this house as the residence of a......
Wayland: Deck House, n.d. (c. 1965). Deck House founders Berkes and Brownell left Techbuilt in 1959 to start Deck House, competing with TechBuilt/Acorn in the New England prefab market. Deck House developed a prefab system using exposed post and beam structure, mahogany windows and signature tongue-and-groove ceiling decking. Pamphlet showing.....
Chicago: Decorators Supply Co., 1903. Trade catalogue for the Chicago manufacturer of wood grilles showing designs, some heavily art nouveau-influenced, available for use in window and drapery treatments and other applications. Approximately 120 designs shown in drawings and photographs. 1903 edition. 31 cm; 39 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings.....
New York: Dwelling Managers, N. d. (1955). Rental prospectus for this early East Village gentrifier. Heavy paper sheet folded three times with perspective drawing to front, two pages of text, and floor plans including penthouses. 56 x 74 cm sheet folded three times. Illustrated from plans and perspective drawing. Scattered.....
New York: IAUS, 1977. Catalog for the 1977 exhibition at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies of five houses by the firm: the Haupt, Weitz, Benensen, Taft, and anonymous Long Island (model only) residences. With an illustrated catalog of the firm's work from 1965 to 1978. First edition. 25.....
Tokyo: Process Architecture, 1981. A selection of drawings from Halprin's recent major projects, including Sea Ranch, Portland Open Space Sequence, FDR Memorial, Levi Plaza, and Jerusalem. Text in English and Japanese. First edition. 36.5 cm; 199 pp.; illustrated. Tape marks to endpapers from the unfortunate installation of an inferior dust.....
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., 1952. A contemporary dialogue between the Patron and the Craftsman, this chapter revealing a theory of architecture in which stone is the only suitable material for building. #31/250 copies, text set by the author. 16 cm; 62 pp. (largely unopened); illustrated from drawing to title.....
Stamford: Reinhold, 1937. This issue with a 30 pp. article on Richard Neutra, featuring his recent work mostly in California and an interview with the architect. Scarce. 29.5 cm; pp. 65, 64 [ads]; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Wear to top edge of faded spine; else a good copy.....
New York: Pamphlet Architecture, 1982. House forms built on rural landscapes and those built in the city are examined by Holl. The relationship of earth and sky and an unspoiled perspective revealing the isolated house are considered in Rural forms; the relation to interlocking city blocks and streets, and the.....
London: Lockwood, 1870. To continue the subtitle: In Three Parts: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive. Illustrated by Numerous Examples, Drawn to a Large Scale. Humber's treatment of iron arch bridges, wrought-iron plate-girder bridges, triangular and trellis-girder bridges, wrought-iron lattice-girder bridges, wrought-iron bowstring bridges, and suspension bridges, with examples of each shown.....
New York and San Francisco: William Stout, 1978. The second, and scarce, publication of Pamphlet Architecture, commemorating "The 'First' and only Bay Area Style as a dignified way to relate architecture towards human understanding of nature...to gain respect for the way to build and the way to think. [The buildings].....
New York: Marqueterie Cporp., N.d. (c. 1925). Catalog for the New York company making wood marqueterie borders, overlays, and inlaid mouldings for use on furniture, cabinets and office fixtures, clocks, picture frames, etc. With 40 pp. of photographs of the product. 27.5 cm; 40 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Prices penciled.....
Paris: Éditions du Patrimoine, 2014. Examples of historic decorative French pavements and calades. Showing ancient and recent dalles, pavés, calades, and empierrements. A valuable resource for historical documentation and restoration. With illustrations, including photographs, plans, and details. Text in French. 22 cm; 210 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
New York: MBMC, 1970. Booklet demonstrating various brick bonds, as viewed through "see-through" pages. Showing Dutch Diaper, Diamond, English Bond, etc. 20.5 cm; 6 pp. (4 transparencies). A good copy in wire-bound pictorial wrappers.
Maremma: Rocca di Frassinello, 2007. Monograph by the clients on the five-year design and construction process of a winery in Maremma by Renzo Piano. Text In Italian and English. First edition. 27 cm; 71 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
Genoa: Renzo Piano Foundation, 2016. Almost every piece of data associated with this project, the redevelopment of an abandoned racetrack in the area of Falero, the ancient port of Athens, is here collected. The project includes a National Library for 750,000 volumes, an Opera House and a huge public park.....
New York & Tokyo: n.d. (c. 1958). Trade catalog for Raymond's firm at 101 Park Ave. and Tokyo, showing a variety of unidentified structures built in Japan and the US—mostly commercial and institutional work, with very few of the hundred residences designed so far. With a complete listing of all.....
London: Ad, 1976. Issue devoted to Peter Cook's Art Net Gallery's International Rally to celebrate the art and wit of architecture, held over ten days in the summer of 1976. Ink price to cover; else a very good copy in pictorial wrappers.
Owatonna: NFB, n.d. Small souvenir plate with color illustration of the bank. The bank was built in 1908 but the plate is not dated or otherwise marked. Porcelain plate measures 13 cm in diameter. Two small chips to bottom edge; else very good.
Cambridge: Techbuilt, 1974. Sales folder for houses with a contemporary adaptation of the historic Garrison design in which the upper level extends beyond the walls of the lower level. One advantage of this model was that the top floor was suitable for a small family, and the ground level could.....
