Books about UNITED STATES: ARCHITECTURE AND ART

AMERICAN RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EVOLUTION OF INDIANA HOUSES

In the early nineteenth century, Indiana was at the intersection of ideas from the East and the frontier - resulting in a unique opportunity ...

STUDIO 804: DESIGN BUILD. EXPANDING THE PEDAGOGY OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Founded in 1995 by Dan Rockhill, Studio 804 is a non-profit organization and a full-year design studio for graduates that finds its momentum at ...

THOMAS A. SPAIN " THE DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS OF CORAL GABLES AND ROME:"

Hardcover in box: Thomas A. Spain, architect, recently retired from the University of Miami School of Architecture, where he'd been a faculty member since ...

N ARCHITECTS: BUILDINGS AND ALMOST BUILDINGS

Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for ...

ARCHITECTURE FOR THE ARTS: THE DE SANTOS & SICARDI GALLERIES. BRAVE ARCHITECTURE

Architecture for the Arts - De Santos & Sicardi Galleries is a unique book that details the thinking and design process behind two, multiple ...

GIEDION AND AMERICA. REPOSITIONING THE HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), one of the main protagonists of the architectural avant-garde in Europe, paradoxically achieved this reputation far from his homeland- in America. ...

LORCA & NEW YORK. POETRY & CITYSCAPE "NEW YORK CITYSCAPE IN THE WRITTEN WORK BY FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA"

There has always been some kind of direct relationship between architecture and other arts and sciences like maths, geometry, astronomy, music and poetry. However, ...

CALIFORNIA CONTEMPORARY

California Modern showcases the work of distinguished architect Grant Kirkpatrick, who shares his passion for life in Southern California. He is a native son, ...

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

La leyenda de Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) continúa intacta. Símbolo del Nueva York de los años ochenta, el artista inició su carrera a finales de ...

SARKIS: NESS.DOCS Nº 1 HASHIM SARKIS STUDIOS 1998-2017

NESS.docs on Hashim Sarkis Studios has two parts: Projects and Dialogues. The first section includes enticing visual documentation on HSS's projects (Balloon Landing Park, ...

A+U Nº 571. SAN FRANCISCO URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS

Featuring recent and in progress urban transformation in San Francisco, this issue is guest edited by Craig Hartman, senior consulting design partner at the ...

YEON: JOHN YEON ARCHITECTURE. BUILDING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

LYMAN: LYMAN HOUSE AND THE WORK OF FREDERIC P. LYMAN. DRAWING AND BUILDING

The Lyman House and the Work of Frederic P. Lyman' is an account of an inventive and skilled architect practicing in 1960s and 70s ...

THIEBAUYD: WAYNE THIEBAUD. DRAFTSMAN

Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman ...

ELLWOOD: MAKING LA MODERN. CRAIG ELLWOOD

Craig Ellwood, 'the Cary Grant of architecture,' was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for ...

A+U Nº 570. MAKE NEW HISTORY. AFTER THE SECOND CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

Participants of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's second edition included 140 artists and architects from 20 countries, under the theme 'Make New History', and this ...

CALIFORNIA CRAZY. AMERICAN POP ARCHITECTURE

En los albores de la era automovilística, la pasión de los estadounidenses por los viajes dio lugar a una nueva ola de imaginativos empresarios ...

ONE- TRACK MIND. DRAWING THE NEW YORK SUBWAY

For decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the terracotta mosaics, faience, ...

OLSON: BUILDING NATURE ART JIM OLSON

A lavish monograph celebrating one of the most respected and admired American architects, known for his sensitivity to the nature and traditions of the ...

SARGENT. OBRAS MAESTRAS

John Singer Sargent es considerado el mejor retratista de su época debido a su elegancia, su habilidad técnica para dibujar con el pincel y ...