Libros de ESTADOS UNIDOS: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

HOLL: STEVEN HOLL. LUMINOSITY/ POROSITY

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 ...

IMPERIAL SAN FRANCISCO. URBAN POWERS, EARTHLY RUIN.

First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the ...

ARCHITECTURAL TOURS L.A. GUIDEBOOK PASADENA

BELLUSCHI: URBAN PLACES PUBLIC SPACES. THE ARCHITECTURE OF ANTHONY BELLUSCHI

JIMENEZ: CARLOS JIMENEZ. HOUSE AND STUDIO

HOVENDEN: THOMAS HOVENDEN. HIS LIFE AND ART

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 ...

METROPOLITAN PHILADELPHIA. LIVING WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST

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 ...

LEITH- ROSS: POETRY IN DESIGN. THE ART OF HARRY LEITH- ROSS

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 ...

ROSEN: FORM RADIATING LIFE. THE PAINTINGS OF CHARLES ROSEN

Charles Rosen (1878-1950) began his career as a photographer in western Pennsylvania but fell in love with painting while still a teenager. This interest ...

GAROFALO: DOUGLAS GAROFALO

This publication inaugurates A+D (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and ...

CITIES AND RACE. AMERICA'S NEW BLACK GHETTO

WALKER: PETER WALKER AND PARTNERS. NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER GARDEN. SOURCE BOOKS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTUR

ARCHITECTURE OF DEMOCRACY

This title illustrates how political thoughts and ideals influenced the development of American architecture - in particular the family home. It is bound to ...

CITY BOUNTIFUL. A CENTURY OF COMMUNITY GARDENING IN AMERICA

Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, ...

NEXT LOS ANGELES, THE. THE STRUGGLE FOR A LIVABLE CITY.

While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited ...

PERLMAN: JOEL PERLMAN. A SCULPTOR'S JOURNEY

An elegantly produced volume which illustrates celebrated American metal sculptor Joel Perlman's finest works and relates them to his fascinating life story This handsomely ...

ROTOWORKS STILLPOINTS. ROTO ARCHITECTURE

Since founding RoTo Architecture in 1991, Michael Rotondi and Clark Stevens have demonstrated that the applications of vibrant avant-garde style can be both wide-ranging ...

NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY, THE

Estudio sobre las viviendas de la periferia de las ciudades americanas "suburbs", su evolución y su impacto en el desarrollo de las ciudades americanas ...

BLACKSTOCK: BLACKSTOCKS COLLECTIONS. THE DRAWINGS OF AN ARTISTIC SAVANT

Modern life is an ever-accelerating barrage of people, buildings,vehicles, creatures, and things. How much can a curious mind take in? And what can it ...

KONING EIZENBERG: ARCHITECTURE ISN'T JUST FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

Urban and suburban living at the outset of the twenty-first century is characterized by myriad interlocking images and experiences. Large-scale social and economic forces ...