The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, Revised Edition

William Allin Storrer

University of Chicago Press,

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Published to critical acclaim more than a decade ago, The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion brought together in one volume all the essential descriptions, photographs, and plans of everything built by America's most famous architect. Now, for this handsomely produced revised edition, William Allin Storrer brings the history of every Wright structure up to the present. Organized chronologically, The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion features a description of each building that details the history of its design, construction, and ownership. Floor plans allow readers intimate access to each of Wright’s built works. With nearly 1,000 photographs (many new to this edition), elevations, historical images, and floor plans that show changes in Wright’s preliminary plans, this reference is unmatched in its authority The indispensable centerpiece of any Wright collection, the newly revised Companion is a must for any serious library of art and architecture.

492 pages, hardcover. University of Chicago Press (October 2006)

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"Auditorium" Progetti. Roma, Anno XIII E.F.

Palanti, Mario.

1935 33 pp. text (printed recto only) introducing the design by Palanti for an auditorium competition in fascist Rome, complete with description of the proposed space, its acoustics, and other physical and decorative properties, index, and 42 excellent plates showing plans, details, sections, views, elevations, and models. Lg. 4to. Cloth. Milan (Rizzoli) 1935. One of 300 copies printed.

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'20s & '30s Style.

Horsham, Michael.

London:: Grange Books,, 1994. Reprint Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This chronicle covers numerous topics which made these two decades famous--political upheavals, social advances, the silver screen, advertising, architecture, design, customs, fads and tragedies. Richly illustrated in both black & white and color.

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'Contemporary': Architecture and Interiors of the 1950's.

Jackson, Lesley.

London,: Phaidon., 1994. Large compendium of postwar modernist architecture, interior and furniture design focusing on changing living standards and the birth of consumer culture. Covers the Case Study Houses, Levittown, model kitchens, manifestations in Europe, etc. Fine condition with fine dust-jacket.

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'Contemporary': Architecture and Interiors of the 1950's.

Jackson, Lesley.

London,: Phaidon,, 1994. Large compendium of postwar modernist architecture, interior and furniture design focusing on changing living standards and the birth of consumer culture. Covers the Case Study Houses, Levittown, model kitchens, manifestations in Europe, etc.

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'Scape: International Magazine of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. 2009/2.

(No Author Listed)

Basel,: Birkhauser., 2009. ÕScape is the new international magazine for landscape architecture, city planning, and urban design. Lively, with international voices and a critical eye, it presents selected news items, in-depth feature articles, concise essays, solidly based and informative project critiques, portraits of outstanding personalities, and reviews of new literature.

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1/1: Architecture and Design:New Synergies.

Ingenhoven, Christoph and Michael Keller, eds.

Basel,: BirkhŠuser, 2001. The architecture and design of trade fairs and exhibitions is undergoing a radical transformation.

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10 X 10: A Global View of New Architecture

Edited (Phaidon Press)

Phaidon Press, From the Publisher: This is a comprehensive view of contemporary architecture, presenting the work of 100 exceptional international architects. It provides an opportunity to see a diverse, inspirational collection of recent work, selected by 10 of the world's best informed architectural critics. The architects are presented in A-Z order, with four pages allocated to each practice, including an accompanying text by one of the ten critics. It is intended to be a global selection. Some of the architects have yet to gain recognition worldwide, but among the names are those who have achieved international publicity and acclaim for their work during the mid-1990s. The work shown here features over 250 buildings and projects, including recent built work as well as projects currently under construction, due for completion in the 21st century. The work also features 10 essays written by the critics specially for this publication, which give their view of current architectural issues. In addition, they have chosen 10 cultural references, from designed objects to film, theory and literature, which show the range of influences in today's rapidly changing design environment. Works reproduced in this volume include writings by Italo Calvino, David Mamet and Peter Weibel, among others.
From Builders Booksource: It's hard to relay the amazing visual impact this book has. 12 inches square, over 7lbs, 2 inches thick, this is a daunting book to pick up! Beautifully produced, we have barely begun to digest the vast number of projects, styles, and presentations. We are convinced that this is an exceptional look at the contemporary design world and an opportunity to gain insight into what the 21st. century will look like. Paperback $39.95

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10/10: Jim Jennings: Architecture Ten Projects, Ten Years.

JENNINGS. Viladas, Pilar et al.

San Francisco,: William Stout Publishers., 1998 The second in a series of monographs on West Coast Architects, Jim Jennings Architecture: 10/10 features ten outstanding projects located in the San Francisco Bay area. The formal elegance of Jennings' work and its link to the Modernist tradition are explored in essays by Pilar Viladas and Steven Holl. Project notes by Jim Jennings lend insight into the processes of design and construction.

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100 Habits of Sucessful Graphic Designers.

Berger, Josh.

Gloucester,: Rockport., 2005. In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design sound off on every topic, ranging from deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism-all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down into succinct, quotable quotes and one-liners that exemplify their character and demonstrate their philosophy on the world around them.

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1000 Dormers

Jo Cryder

Schiffer,

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Dormers bring light and air into an existing space and add character and dimension to a structure's external appearance. This invaluable book features more than 700 color pictures featuring homes and structures adorned with an awe-inspiring variety of dormer additions. The illustrations and imagery portray eve gable, double gable, hipped-roof, arched, round, oval, eyebrow, pediment, triangle, flat, turret, deck, and inset dormers, to name a few. If you are a homeowner, student, or professional involved in architecture, design, remodeling, or construction, you will find this reference an invaluable addition to your library.

192 pages, hardcover. Schiffer (August 2007)

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101 Things I learned in Architecture School

Matthew Frederick

M.I.T.,

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  This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory--provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum. Each lesson utilizes a two-page format, with a brief explanation and an illustration that can range from diagrammatic to whimsical. The lesson on "How to Draw a Line" is illustrated by examples of good and bad lines; a lesson on the dangers of awkward floor level changes shows the television actor Dick Van Dyke in the midst of a pratfall; a discussion of the proportional differences between traditional and modern buildings features a drawing of a building split neatly in half between the two.

   Written by an architect and instructor who remembers well the fog of his own student days, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School provides valuable guideposts for navigating the design studio and other classes in the architecture curriculum. Architecture graduates--from young designers to experienced practitioners--will turn to the book as well, for inspiration and a guide back to basics when solving a complex design problem.

128 pages, hardcover.  MIT Press (September 2007)

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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.

Frederick, Matthew.

Cambridge,: MIT Press, 2007 These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory--provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum.

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135th Annual Exhibition of Painting in Oil, Sculpture, Graphic Art, Watercolors, Architecture and Murals.

Harbeson, John F.

New York, NY: National Academy of Design, 1960 Grey paper stapled wraps; 128 pp.; 30 bw plates, 1 bw photo Includes works by Wheeler Williams, Dexter Jones, Hazel Brill Jackson, Bruce Currie, Herman Maril, Ruth Ray, John Koch, and others VG (Some discoloration to covers at spine).

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150 Best Apartment Ideas

Ana G. Canizares

Collins Design,

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New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of apartments from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This compilation expresses the diversity of current trends in apartment design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the latest in contemporary residential architecture.

599 pages, hardcover. Collins Design (February 2007)

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150 Best House Ideas

Ana G. Canizares

Harper Collins Design, New ideas on how to design, build, and decorate a home are always of essential value to architects, designers, and homeowners alike. This book offers an extensive collection of single-family houses from all over the world, devised by distinguished international architects and designers who have worked to achieve practical, innovative, and stunning solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. This compilation expresses the diversity of current trends in house design and provides an inspirational source of ideas for those active in the field of design or interested in catching up on the latest in contemporary residential architecture.

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16 Houses: Designing the Public's Private House.

Bell, Michael.

New York,: Monacelli., 2003. 16 firms respond to an invitation to design single-family houses for the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation in Houston. Includes projects by Robert Mangurian, Stanley Saitowitz, Carlos Jimenez, Michael Bell and more.

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1776-1976 ZWEIHUNDERT JAHRE BERLIN (TWO HUNDRED YEARS BERLIN)

DUETTMANN, W., G. HEINRICHS, J.P. KLEIHUES, H.CH. MUELLER, J.J. SAWADE, O.M. UNGERS.

Berlin: -, 1977 This publication is a contribution to the "Berlin Now" program in New York. Minor shelf-wear and creasing to front cover. Former owner's name stamped in rear. In English and German..Softcover original. VERY GOOD TRADE PAPERBACK.

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1937 Blueprint for Special Police Patrol Boat Midland Utilities, Inc. 151-45-6th Road Whitestone, N.Y.C. Designed By Chester A.

Nedwidek, Chester A.

Whitestone New York: Midland Utilities, Inc., 1937 Giving a side view and top view of this 38-foot Special Police Patrol Boat; blueprint approx. 18" x 24" size, with the scale 1/2" = 1'; good details and nicely drawn: boat carried Sterling 6 cyl dolphin, twin 110-gallon gasoline tanks, gun and ammunition lockers, radio, Pullman berths, Arcola Heater, lifeboat carried atop rear cabin area; we note that the Mystic Seaport Henry B. Nevins, Inc. Shipyard Collection holds a Nedwidek design, evidently built by Nevins and that Nedwidek was fairly well-known in boat design, having published several collections of the same with other naval architects; rolled for many years, some splitting, creasing along old lines; with some soiling, overall, in good condition and interesting Police equipment and naval architecture ephemera. Good.

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194x: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front

Shanken, Andrew Michael

University of Minnesota Press,

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During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same time, the dramatic events of the 1930s and 1940s led many architects to believe that their profession—and society itself—would undergo a profound shift once the war ended, with private commissions giving way to centrally planned projects. The magazine Architectural Forum coined the term “194X” to encapsulate this wartime vision of postwar architecture and urbanism.

In a major study of American architecture during World War II, Andrew M. Shanken focuses on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. Shanken recasts the wartime era as a crucible for the intermingling of modernist architecture and consumer culture.

Challenging the pervasive idea that corporate capitalism corrupted the idealism of modernist architecture in the postwar era, 194X shows instead that architecture’s wartime partnership with corporate American was founded on shared anxieties and ideals. Business and architecture were brought together in innovative ways, as shown by Shanken’s persuasive reading of magazine advertisements for Revere Copper and Brass, U.S. Gypsum, General Electric, and other companies that prominently featured the work of leading progressive architects, including Louis I. Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Walter Gropius.

Although the unexpected prosperity of the postwar era made the architecture of 194X obsolete before it could be built and led to its exclusion from the story of twentieth-century American architecture, Shanken makes clear that its anticipatory rhetoric and designs played a crucial role in the widespread acceptance.

About the Author: Andrew M. Shanken is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Art Bulletin, Design Issues, Landscape, Places and Planning Perspectives.

288 pages, paperback. University of Minnesota Press (March 2009)

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