Libros de ESTADOS UNIDOS: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

SEQUEL TO SUBURBIA. GLIMPSES OF AMERICA'S POST- SUBURBAN FUTURE

In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around ...

KUNDIG: TOM KUNDIG WORKS

In Tom Kundig: Works, the celebrated Seattle-based architect presents nineteen new projects, from Hawaii to New York City. Kundig's award-winning houses, known for their ...

GRAHAM: BUILDINGS AND SIGNS 1978 MODELS. DAN GRAHAM

For more than five decades, Dan Graham has been a force in the world of conceptual art, creating works that surprise, unsettle, and stretch ...

THIRD CITY. CHICAGO AND AMERICAN URBANISM

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 ...

WARHOL: DEATH AND DISASTER

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 ...

LAWRENCE: JACOB LAWRENCE. THE MIGRATION SERIES

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. ...

JOHNSON: RESIDENTIAL MASTERPIECES 19. GLASS HOUSE. PHILIP JOHNSON

Designed by American architect Philip Johnson as his own residence, the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut (US), sent shockwaves through the architectural world ...

GEHRY: THE FOUNDATION LOUIS VUITTON

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 ...

WALLPAPER CITY GUIDE NEW YORK 2015

OLMSTED: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED. PLANS AND VIEWS OF PUBLIC PARKS

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 ...

SMITH AND WILLIAMS: OUTSIDE IN : THE ARCHITECTURE OF SMITH AND WILLIAMS

From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to ...

COMPOSITIONS. JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT. THE NOTEBOOKS

Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he ...

GEHRY: FRANK O. GEHRY: WINTON GUEST HOUSE, SCHNABEL RESIDENCE MASTERPIECES 18

A+U Nº 533. ONE SOM

This edition features Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), established in Chicago in 1936, an internationally prolific firm that has transformed itself according to the ...

INFRA ECO LOGI URBANISM : A PROJECT FOR THE GREAT LAKES MEGAREGION

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. THE LANDMARK ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

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 ...

CHICAGOISMS. THE CITY AS CATALYST FOR ARCHITECTURAL SPECULATION

Chicago has long captured global imagination as a place of tall, shining buildings rising from the fog, the playground for many great architects - ...

JEFFERSON: THOMAS JEFFERSON: ARCHITECT, THE BUILT LEGACY OF OUR THIRD PRESIDENT

Now available in a newly reduced trim size and at a lower price, this is the first volume to include all the existing work ...

OSSIPOFF: HAWAIIAN MODERN. THE ARCHITECTURE OF VLADIMIR OSSIIPOFF

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 ...

ROBERT MOSES: THE MASTER BUILDER OF NEW YORK CITY

Now, in Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's new graphic biography, the story of Robert's rise to power- and the decades of work that followed- ...