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Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 02:34:40 +0000

The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new—and architecturally cutting-edge—residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the b..

Price: $29.95

Havana Deco

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 01:58:52 +0000

Exteriors and interior spaces, the graphic artists who spearheaded Art Deco's popularity, monumental sculpture, and the contributions of painters are explored here in rich detail.

Price: $39.95

Building the Empire State

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 01:58:48 +0000

The construction of the Empire State Building was orchestrated by general contractors Starrett Brothers and Eken, premier "skyline builders" of the 1920s. They scheduled the delivery of materials and the construction and recorded daily the number of workers by trade. Compiled from these rec..

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Vanishing Philadelphia: (Ruins of the Quaker City)

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:15:36 +0000

The ruins of Philadelphia's grandest structures show the city's dramatic evolution. Smoke no longer spews from the Philadelphia Electric Company's hulking riverside power plants. Nature long ago reclaimed the rusted steel bones of the Frankford Arsenal. Graffiti artists tag the Beury Building, whi..

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Voyage Le Corbusier (Drawing on the Road)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:40:34 +0000

Voyage Le Corbusier collects for the first time a compendium of sketchbook drawings and watercolors of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret—a young student who would go onto become the singularly influential modernist architect Le Corbusier. Between 1907 and 1911, Jeanneret traveled throughout Europe and the..

Price: $35.00

New York Neon

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:24:00 +0000

Treating New York City as an open-air museum, Thomas E. Rinaldi captures the brilliant glow of surviving early- and mid-twentieth-century neon signs, those iconic elements of the cityscape now in danger of disappearing. This visual tour features two hundred signs, identified by location, with info..

Price: $26.95

Gardens of Eden (Long Island's Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:56:34 +0000

Edited by SPLIA’s former director, Dr. Robert B. MacKay, Gardens of Eden is an exploration of a distinct type of suburban development that proliferated across the region before zoning regulations were developed to manage land use in New York City and its environs. While the onset of suburbia on Lo..

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Pocket Guide to Miami Architecture

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:38:02 +0000

From the tropical vernacular of the Barnacle House to the Art Deco neighborhoods of Miami Beach, from the Midcentury Modernism of Morris Lapidus to the sophisticated rhythms of Arquitectonica, Judith Paine McBrien captures the vibrancy and diversity of architecture in Miami and its environs. Set i..

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Edwin Howland Blashfield (Master American Muralist)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:15:22 +0000

Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848–1936) rose to prominence as a muralist during the “American Renaissance,” the period between the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the United States’ entry into World War I. Blashfield’s monumental work can be viewed in courthouses, state capitols, churches, univ..

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Newport Villas (The Revival Styles 1885-1935)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:01:08 +0000

Newport Villas describes the architectural and social development of this summer resort town, the nexus of wealth and fashion at the end of the nineteenth century. All the accoutrements were the best that money could buy, whether it was Parisian frocks, meticulously groomed thoroughbred horses, or..

Price: $85.00