Books about UNITED STATES: ARCHITECTURE AND ART

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 ...

INFORMAL AMERICAN CITY, THE. FROM TACO TRUCKS TO DAY LABOR

Every day in American cities street vendors spread out their wares on sidewalks, food trucks serve lunch from the curb, and homeowners hold sales ...

ON THE HIGH LINE. EXPLORING NEW YORK'S MOST ORIGINAL URBAN PARK

Thirty feet in the air, rebuilt and planted on one-and-a-half miles of abandoned, elevated railroad track snaking through Manhattans West Side, the High Line ...

ASYMPTOTE: THE ARC - DESIGNED BY ASYMPTOTE

The ARC stands for the 'architecture' or 'artistry' of river culture, and contains an elegant and geometric approach that celebrates and records the Four ...

THE FOUNDERS AT HOME : THE BUILDING OF AMERICA, 1735-1817

Through the Founders own voices and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve ...

WALKER & GILLETTE, AMERICAN ARCHITECTS: FROM CLASSICISM THROUGH MODERNISM (1900-1950S)

The work of Walker & Gillette, one of the leading architectural firms of the twentieth century, is documented with an extensive text and over ...

MANHATTAN ATMOSPHERES. ARCHITECTURE, THE INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT, AND URBAN CRISIS

WRIGHT: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. ON THE WEST COAST

'This authoritative survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture on the West Coast is a major contribution to the work of America's greatest architect. Mark ...

CASA CALIFORNIANA, LA "EXPERIENCIAS DOMÉSTICAS DE POSGUERRA"

La casa californiana propone la revisión de la arquitectura doméstica americana de la posguerra del sigo pasado, a través de un recorrido por sus ...

AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on ...

DESIGN BROOKLYN. RENOVATION, RESTORATION, INNOVATION, INDUSTRY

Design Brooklyn is a visual exploration of the unique and diverse architecture, interiors, and design of public and private spaces in todays Brooklyn, from ...

PLANNING IN THE USA. POLICIES, ISSUES AND PROCESSES. 4TH EDITION

This extensively revised and updated fourth edition of Planning in the USA continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice ...