Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial ...
Long a magnet for creative tupes, New York City offers a cornucopia of art, architecture and design--both contemporary and historical. The new line of ...
Adored for his exuberant and original architecture, more than fifty years of Morris Lapiduss designs are celebrated in this first-ever monograph. Known for inventing ...
On Becoming An Artist illuminates the friendships, mentorships and collaborations of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), in celebration of the artists experimentations and influences. It opens ...
Public Architecture: The Art Inside spans the 30 year history of Denver, Colorado-based Fentress Architects, an international design firm that passionately pursues the creation ...
Effortless" and "inevitable" are architect Steven Harris's two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Steven Harris Architects designs spaces that are custom-tailored ...
From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the worlds largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The ...
University of Chicago Center for Creative and Performing Arts.Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. New Orleans National Jazz Center.New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Phare Tower.La Defense, France Kuala ...
In this unique 2-volume,book with more than 2,500 images, Marilyn Neuhart tells the story to paraphrase Charles Eames himself of how Eames furniture got ...
Often called the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was responsible for the design of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York ...
American Modern, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibit of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1930s, focusing ...
Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Washington ...
The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once ...
The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American'and world-class'architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, a ...
Our traditional image of Chicago - as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends ...
After attaining classic stature with palaces erected in the early 20th century, the American department store continued to evolve in ways that were influenced ...
The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary ...