Our traditional image of Chicago'as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends'is such a ...
A 1962 newspaper photograph of a plane crash inspired Andy Warhol (1928-87) to produce a series dealing with catastrophes and horrific accidents. In his ...
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. ...
Designed by American architect Philip Johnson as his own residence, the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut (US), sent shockwaves through the architectural world ...
Published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, designed by Frank Gehry, this elegant volume undertakes an in-depth look ...
Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs, and ...
From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to ...
This edition features Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), established in Chicago in 1936, an internationally prolific firm that has transformed itself according to the ...
he Great Lakes Megaregion is the largest and most populated network of metropolitan regions in North America. With an estimated population of sixty million, ...
American Homes opens the window onto the rich landscape of all the places we call home; Award-winning architect, Lester Walker examines hundreds of styles ...
James Stirling and Michael Wilford realised a significant body of work during their partnership. Considered one of the most important international architectural practices of ...
Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998), known as the "master of Hawaiian architecture," was at the forefront of the postwar phenomenon known as tropical modernism. Although he ...
The publishing industries' production of ubiquitous volumes on "St Architects" does little to inform society about the benefits good architecture can have on our ...