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Papers 3 (Sergison Bates Architects)

Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:20:20 +0000

Following Papers and Papers 2, the third volume in the series contains papers written by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates between 2008 and 2014. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, the papers focus on some of the themes that are at the heart of the work of Sergison Bates architects and t..

Price: $58.95

The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:25:05 +0000

Producing over three hundred major projects, including the celebrated Grand Central Terminal (designed in association with Reed & Stem), the charismatic Beaux Arts-trained Whitney Warren (1864-1943) and shrewd lawyer Charles D. Wetmore (1866-1941) grasped the stylistic requirements and prevailing ..

Price: $60.00

Taliesin Diary (A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:06:14 +0000

Priscilla J. Henken lived at Taliesin with her husband David as part of The Fellowship, the group of acolytes who made Taliesin an architectural colony from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her lively description of day-to-day life on a communal working farm in south central Wisconsin provides unique ..

Price: $34.95

The Architecture of Bart Prince (A Pragmatics of Place)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:48:29 +0000

The work of Bart Prince is recognized internationally for both its seminal creative vision and for carrying on an American tradition of individualism in architecture originating with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff. Prince shares with these pioneers a fundamental way of thinking..

Price: $39.95

Edward Durell Stone (Modernism's Populist Architect)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:35:48 +0000

Framed between the Great Depression and the oil embargo of the early 1970s, the distinguished career of the native Arkansan is represented on four continents, in thirteen foreign countries, and in thirty-two states—his masterpiece the American Embassy chancery (1953–59) in New Delhi, India. Recogn..

Price: $55.00

Four Florida Moderns (The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:05:08 +0000

Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson—The Florida Four—are making a mark for themselves in contemporary architectural circles, infusing modernist traditions with their own flair. Practitioners of modernism in Florida—or, more accurately, tropical modernism—they are produ..

Price: $50.00

Inspired by Nature: Animals (The Building/Biology Connection)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:00:47 +0000

Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture—whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons—has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Anima..

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Frank Lloyd Wright (Essential Texts)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:50:34 +0000

Twenty-one carefully chosen selections from Wright’s extensive literary output span the important period between 1900 and the late 1930s, when the architect exerted a powerful influence on the developing modern movement. A concise biography, explanatory head notes, and a short annotated bibli..

Price: $25.00

Inspired by Nature: Minerals (The Building/Geology Connection)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:50:29 +0000

Inspired by Nature: Minerals gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have looked for solutions in the world of geology, from the models of organization offered by crystals to the inspiration of the earth’s relief, mineral voids, volcanoes, and monoliths. Among the built examples are ..

Price: $35.00

Inspired by Nature: Plants (The Building/Botany Connection)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:45:52 +0000

Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture. This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by important architects, from houses to hotels, schools, and commercial and industrial projects, reveals conscious and unconscious visual analogies with the plant world a..

Price: $35.00