This is the first publication about Eliot Noyes (1910-77), an important figure in twentieth-century design in America. His influential and successful career stretched from ...
Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's 1909 "Plan of Chicago," coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in ...
Best known for his barbed and brilliant art for the New Yorker, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) did much more. He executed public murals, designed fabrics ...
In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a ...
Twenty-one works and projects are thoroughly explored in this publication which in the words of Steven Holl aims to 'investigate aspects of porosity and ...
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the ...
After studying under Alexandre Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Thomas Hovenden (1840-95) began an exemplary career as a painter and teacher at ...
As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital ...
The early career endeavors of Harry Leith-Ross (1886-1973) took him on a circuitous path. He studied engineering, worked for his uncle's coal-mining business, and ...