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  • The American Vitruvius

    This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment. Drawing upon the ideals that inspired the great Roman architect, it promotes the Vitruvian maxims of longevity, beauty, and commodity. It also defines the thinking behind modern American city planning.First published in 1922, The American Vitruvius arose from a ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Louis Kahn

    A Life in Architecture

    The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born in what is now Estonia, immigrated to America, and became one of the towering figures in his adopted country’s built world. His works are unmistakable in their elegance, monolithic power, and architectural honesty.Written by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Towards a New Architecture

    by Le Corbusier ...
    Series series Dover Architecture
    For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Early Period (1893-1909)

    Series series Dover Architecture
    "I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building — or the significance of those buildings I have already built." — Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections of designs with commentary that temperamentally parallel that work: irascible, radical, powerful and ... Read more

    $15.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Manual of Section

    Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of Section fills this void.Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and David J. Lewis have developed seven categories ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Mies van der Rohe

    A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

    An “excellent” new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos (Booklist, starred review).Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and “the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best,” while the Christian Science Monitor noted that “Schulze has both the gift of an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palladio

    Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in the context of his age - the Humanist era of Michelangelo and Raphael, Titian and Veronese - and examines each of the villas, churches and palaces in turn and tries to penetrate to the heart of the Palladian miracle. Palladio's theoretical writings are important and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 54 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The founder of the nineteenth century French school of Neo-Impressionism, Georges Seurat devised the technique of Pointillism, portraying the play of light with tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours. A man of studious habits and a scientific mind, Seurat employed his original technique to create huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antoni Gaudí

    by Jeremy Roe ...
    Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials and the introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal, Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art, “the colours used in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College

    Series series Florida History and Culture
    Florida Southern College in Lakeland boasts the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. With eleven buildings planned and designed by Wright, the campus forms a rich tableau for examining the architect's philosophy and design practice.In this fully illustrated volume, Dale Allen Gyure tells the engaging story of the ambitious project from beginning to end. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gaudí

    Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (18521926) was an important and influential figure in the history of modern Spanish art. The use of colour, wide-ranging materials and introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal Gaudí freely expressed his own feelings on art: The colours used in architecture have to be intense, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If Walls Could Speak

    My Life in Architecture

    by Moshe Safdie ...
    One of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in societyOver more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures—from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Louise Blanchard Bethune

    Every Woman Her Own Architect

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Winner of the 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives ConferenceAs America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm ... Read more

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  • Leisure Architecture of Wayne McAllister

    by Chris Nichols ...
    The work of late commercial architect Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) is responsible for much of the character of Southern California today. His Fred-and-Ginger nightclubs and glinting-steel-and-blazing-neon circular drive-ins brought Hollywood to life. His Sands Hotel in Las Vegas became the home of the Rat Pack; the mythology of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. owes a great deal to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ornament and Crime

    by Adolf Loos ...
    Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • On Architecture

    Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

    Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best known critics in the United States. Her brilliance over so many years is unmatched, and her range has always been vast-from a plea to save a particular architectural treasure to an ongoing discussion about ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Wright and New York

    The Making of America's Architect

    An “immensely valuable” dual biography of the iconic American architect and the city that transformed his career in the early twentieth century (Francis Morrone, New Criterion).Frank Lloyd Wright took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Eero Met His Match

    Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect

    by Eva Hagberg ...
    A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim’s life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B. Louchheim (1914–1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. When Eero Met His ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • La arquitectura moderna y sus creadores

    «Ser aceptado no lo es todo.» Frank Gehry«Y sin embargo, si uno es arquitecto, acepta el reto.» Renzo Piano«Si usted es un viejo veterano de la arquitectura, necesitará este libro como referencia esencial; si es un ávido amateur que se interroga sobre el mundo construido, encontrará en él el mejor curso universitario en el que haya podido matricularse.» John GuareEn este libro Martin Filler ha ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Where Are the Women Architects?

    Series Book 1 - Places Books
    A timely and important search for architecture's missing womenFor a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become. Law and medicine, two equally ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture

    Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

    Modern Architecture is a landmark text--the first book in which America's greatest architect put forth the principles of a fundamentally new, organic architecture that would reject the trappings of historical styles while avoiding the geometric abstraction of the machine aesthetic advocated by contemporary European modernists. One of the most important documents in the development of modern ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works

    Series series Dover Architecture
    Although he was known in his own time as a leader of the so-called Romanesque Revival, the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86) is today regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture — a man who, in the words of Lewis Mumford, “created out of a confusion which was actually worse than a mere void the beginnings of a new architecture.”This appreciative presentation of his ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright

    Series series Dover Architecture
    Charming, readable memoir, by his son, of Wright as architect of genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, an extremely rare work designed and printed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "...unconventional, amusing and on the whole revealing." — Book Week. 10 halftones. ... Read more

    $10.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus