Trevian Books
Birkhäuser Architecture, 2003, 2003. Monograph on the Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who has made the stone wall a significant design element of his work, consistently employing the material in traditional typologies. Souto de Moura won the Pritzker in 2011. Text in English and German. First edition. 22 cm;.....
Paris: chez l'Auteur et Dussilon, 1816. Blondel's monograph on the Marche Sainte-Germain, an early Parisian covered marked hall built 1813-1816. Showing ground plans. elevations, and illustrations of roof construction. This copy, however, while complete with 11 plates, title page, and two leaves of text, has been rebound in a reduced.....
Chicago: C. F. Murphy Assoc., n.d. [c. 1980]. Two detailed and technical reports on hospital design. The first is critical of conventional "base-tower" hospital design and presents an alternative low-rise solution; the second report details a design for a unit module which can enable orderly growth and expansion of the.....
New York: NYCDOT & Dept. City Planning, 1997. A master plan for bike lanes and paths in all five boroughs. With an analysis of bike usage on bridges and the Greenway Projects, access to mass transit, design guidelines for signs and infrastructure, parking, education, etc. With five large wall maps.....
Undated photograph of the architect and historian, smoking. Inscribed by Fiske Kimball. 6.5 x 9.5 inch glossy photograph, inscribed in ink. Penciling to margin; else a very good copy.
Rome: Edizioni Kappa, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Monograph on Louis Kahn, with interviews with family members, associates, and friends, and with essays, many previously published, by Frampton, Tyng, Huff, the Lobells, others. Text in English and Italian. Inscribed by Latour. First edition. Square 8vo; 442 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans.....
Idaho: Geo. Merrill & Assoc. & Gem State Lumber Co, n.d. [c. 1920]. Colored drawing shows an elaborate floor plan for a two-bedroom one-story house, four elevations, and an excavation outline. Little can be learned about Merrill as an architect; Gem State Lumber was a Pocatello, ID firm offering a......
New York: NYCDOT, 2009. Bloomberg-era guidelines to redesign the city’s horrible and outdated streets. Sections on Geometry, Materials, Lighting, Furniture, etc., showing examples of contemporary streets and intersections. First edition. 28 cm.; 232 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Minor wear to edges of binder covers; spotting to last page;.....
Cordoba: Fundacion Arquitectura Contemporanea, 2011. Book and DVD set describing the work of the Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The small DVD-sized book documents 60 works from 1958 to 2008 with photographs and plans. Also with a complete list of the architect’s works and projects. The accompanying 29-minute DVD.....
Paris: Hyx Editions, 2017, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover. Catalog for the 2017 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou of the work of Eileen Gray. First edition. 64 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.Text in English and French. A fine copy in laminated boards, published without a dust jacket.
Berlin: Konzerthaus der Berliner Philharmoniker GmbH, 1963. Promotional pamphlet in English describing the design and construction of the Hall, opened in West Berlin in 1963. With essays on the Hall’s radical interior design, foyers, acoustics and other technical data. First edition. 20 cm.; 16 pp.; illustrated from photographs and plans.....
N.P.: The Author, 2012. The architect Allen G. Siple was active in Southern California from the 1930’s through the early 1970s. He was the main architect for developer Paul Trousdale and worked with other developers including Janns and Leimert, helping create communities such as Westdale and Beverlywood ("Located in the.....
Paris: Picard, 1984. Monograph on the work of the French Neoclassicist architect. Illustrated with 239 plates Text in French. 27.5 cm; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in red cloth, in a used dust jacket.
