Books about UNITED STATES: ARCHITECTURE AND ART

AMERICAN HOMES. THE LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

American Homes opens the window onto the rich landscape of all the places we call home; Award-winning architect, Lester Walker examines hundreds of styles ...

CHICAGOISMS. THE CITY AS CATALYST FOR ARCHITECTURAL SPECULATION

Chicago has long captured global imagination as a place of tall, shining buildings rising from the fog, the playground for many great architects - ...

JEFFERSON: THOMAS JEFFERSON: ARCHITECT, THE BUILT LEGACY OF OUR THIRD PRESIDENT

Now available in a newly reduced trim size and at a lower price, this is the first volume to include all the existing work ...

OSSIPOFF: HAWAIIAN MODERN. THE ARCHITECTURE OF VLADIMIR OSSIIPOFF

Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998), known as the "master of Hawaiian architecture," was at the forefront of the postwar phenomenon known as tropical modernism. Although he ...

ROBERT MOSES: THE MASTER BUILDER OF NEW YORK CITY

Now, in Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's new graphic biography, the story of Robert's rise to power- and the decades of work that followed- ...

JOHNSON: MICHAEL P. JOHNSON. THE UNSHAKEABLE SEARCH FOR ARCHITECTURE

The publishing industries' production of ubiquitous volumes on "St Architects" does little to inform society about the benefits good architecture can have on our ...

FRANK GEHRY, ARQUITECTO "EL MODERNISTA CONTEMPORÁNEO"

Repaso fotografico de la obra del arquitecto

GEHRY: FRANK GEHRY.

Arranged chronologically, this book follows the arc of Gehry's later career, during which he has focused mainly on public and cultural facilities. The book ...

RANALLI: IN SITU. GEORGE RANALLI, WORKS & PROJECTS

INVENCIONES. NUEVA YORK VS. REM KOOLHAAS, BERNARD TSCHUMI, PIRANESI

'Invenciones' fue el título de una exposición celebrada en Hannover en 1981, dondese aglutinaban, en torno a la obra de G. B. Piranesi, la ...

MALTZAN: MICHAEL MALTZAN. SEVEN SIDES. THE PITMAN DOWELL RESIDENCE

Los Angeles has long been famous for defining and promoting modern domestic architecture, both within the United States and internationally. Michael Maltzan, founder of ...

CAPE COD MODERN. MID- CENTURY ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNITY ON THE OUTER CAPE

HERZOG & DE MEURON TRANSFORMING PARK AVENUE ARMORY NEW YORK

How to deal with historic buildings has long been a core issue of the international architectural discourse. Herzog & de Meuron began addressing the ...

KELLY: ELLSWORTH KELLY

In 2012, the Louis Vuitton Foundation commissioned Ellsworth Kelly to make a proposal for the auditorium at its new premises, a building designed by ...

PLANNING ATLANTA

Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...

SUSTAINABLE SUBURBIA? RETHINKING THE NORTH AMERICAN METROPOLIS

The suburbanization of North America has been was one of the most significant social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth century. Originally seen ...

THE SHAKERS : FROM MOUNT LEBANON TO THE WORLD

This major new book with essays by prominent scholars presents the austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in context of their faith ...

AMERICAN URBAN FORM. A REPRESENTATIVE HISTORY

American urban form -- the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life -- has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. ...

YOUNG ARCHITECTS 15: RANGE (2013)

The Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by the Architectural League of New York and its Young ...

POLSHEK: JAMES STEWART POLSHEK. BUILD, MEMORY

A look at a life in architecture from the architect of the Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York ...