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Comparative Architectural Details (A Selection from Pencil Points 1932-1937)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:31:43 +0000

Here for the first time in three quarters of a century a series of comparative architectural details is reissued. Once appearing regularly in professional journals, worthy examples of similar building elements by leading architects were one of the most time-tested and fruitful means of improving t..

Price: $59.95

The Architecture Traveler (A Guide to 262 Key Modern American Buildings)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:43:58 +0000

This portable book takes readers on a tour of American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information-addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, maps-needed to experience them at first hand-of 262 landmark buildings and explains why each wi..

Price: $24.95

Frances Elkins (Interior Design)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:42:51 +0000

An avant-garde decorator and arbiter of taste, Elkins was celebrated for inspired designs that integrated various periods and styles, from country French to chinoiserie to art deco, and featured furnishings by such modern designers as Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti. This book offers a to..

Price: $65.00

Classical Architecture (An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:42:02 +0000

Professor James Stevens Curl discusses in clear, straightforward language the origins of classical architecture in Greek and Roman antiquity and outlines its continuous development, through its various manifestations during the Renaissance, its transformations in Baroque and Rococo phases, its ree..

Price: $35.00

Louis Kahn (Essential Texts)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:41:48 +0000

This unique anthology draws from Louis Kahn's speeches, essays, and interviews, some never previously published, to capture the evolution and central tenets of the influential American architect's thinking from his early work of the 1940s to his death in 1974. Professor Twombly's introduction..

Price: $24.95

The Architecture of Humanism (A Study in the History of Taste)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:38:49 +0000

Reissued in trade format with a new introduction, The Architecture of Humanism offers a brilliant analysis of the theories and ideas behind much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. It discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy..

Price: $16.95