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 ...
La obra completa de Richard Neutra (cerca de trescientas viviendas privadas, colegios y edificios públicos) es reunida en un volumen ilustrado con unas mil ...
New York City Gardens presents New Yorks evolving tradition of garden culture through images and discussions of thirty of its most outstanding gardens, from ...
The founder of the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Marion Boulton Stroud, asked Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour to design and construct ...
Whether or not New York City, in all its teeming chaos, strikes readers as exciting or abominating, its superb urban architecture is undeniable. Life ...
True North takes a look at contemporary Alaskan architecture. The architectural uniqueness of this part of the world is exemplified by carefully selected projects ...
Despite his early death, Basquiat's large and powerful oeuvre has ensured his continuing reputation as one of modern art's most distinctive and eloquent voices. ...
This beautifully illustrated historical dictionary of landscape design vocabulary used in North America from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries defines a selection of ...
The first close look at an innovative architect and inventor who held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times. In the ...
Widely regarded as one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century, Alice Neel is internationally recognized for her contributions to Abstract ...