Individual architects Books
Rizzoli Gio Ponti in the American West
Book SynopsisThe only book devoted to the sole building ever built in the United States by the mid-century Italian master architect and designer, whose brand has a cult following and ever-growing popularity.
£34.00
Rizzoli International Publications Julia Morgan
Book SynopsisJulia Morgan was a pioneering woman architect, best known for Hearst Castle, in the vanguard of Beaux-Arts design and style in the first half of the twentieth century.
£44.00
Rizzoli Designing Paradise Juan Montoya
Book SynopsisInterior-design legend Juan Montoya takes us on a tropical adventure with his recent breathtaking seaside residential projects.No typology lends itself more naturally to Juan Montoya's creative impulses than tropical residences. There is such a sense of appropriateness to place in the architecture and interiors that our assumption that the designer's stylistic affinity is somehow inborn becomes inescapable. In this book, the reader will visit Montoya-designed residences that occupy ravishing sites in Punta Mita (Mexico), Cap Cana (Dominican Republic), Miami Beach, Fisher Island, and other idyllic oceanfront locales. As much as these homes are escapist fantasias, they are also inextricably rooted to their geographic location and their regional culture. And while their sense of luxury is palpable, so is their lack of pretension, the practicality that makes them functional for the families who reside there, and their resilience to the natural conditions in which they are foTrade Review"Juan Montoya’s Designing Paradise will transport you to pavilions, pools, and plush pads across the Americas, all created by the Colombian-born designer." —ELLEDECOR.COM"Montoya deeply considers local landscape, climate, materials, and culture to craft retreats that make their residents--and frequent guests--feel right at home." —ARCHITECTURALDIGEST.COM"Interior design legend Juan Montoya takes us on a tropical adventure with his recent breathtaking seaside residential projects. This is one of those design books you want to escape into!" —LOVEHAPPENSMAG.COM"Open-air pavilions with endless views of sea and sand; sweeping terraces with glimmering pools and dramatic sunsets; sumptuous interiors with blue-and-white tiles, intricate beadwork, global textiles, and thatched roofs: these are just some of the details revealed in this envy-inducing volume." —INTERIORDESIGNMASTERCLASS.COM"Designing Paradise is not just about beautiful interiors, it’s about knowing "paradise,’ feeling its spirit, and celebrating it. And Juan Montoya’s interiors epitomizes all those elements." —CARIBBEAN TODAY
£48.75
Rizzoli International Publications Emilio Ambasz
Book SynopsisA timely reevaluation and synthesis of this ecologically minded trailblazer and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design.Famously labeled the “father, poet, and prophet” of green architecture and a proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or better ways of living or be deemed immoral, Emilio Ambasz is an award-winning architect, industrial designer, and protean maker of forms. He has invented highly efficient engines, modular furniture, streetlights, flexible pens, expandable suitcases, ergonomic door handles, wrist computers, and 3D posters. In collaboration with Giancarlo Piretti, he created the Vertebra chair, the first automatic ergonomic chair in the world, now part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Long a pioneer in architecture, Ambasz has retained a belief in the environment, or rather the larger ecology, aTrade Review"EMILIO AMBASZ: CURATING A NEW NATURE is a timely reevaluation of this ecologically minded trailblazer and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design and is a book destined for the well-rounded contemporay architecture library." —AMAZING ARCHITECTURE
£50.00
Rizzoli International Publications Messana ORorke
Book SynopsisDrawing on examples of their own instantly recognizable Minimalist-inflected designs, often evoking the work of Donald Judd, celebrated architects Messana O’Rorke demonstrate how to create a serene haven for modern living.Founded in 1996 by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke in New York City, Messana O’Rorke is renowned for crafting spaces of sublime restraint and ethereal beauty. Their process utilizes a rigorously limited palette of materials orchestrated in an architectural language of distilled boxes, blocks, and containers that emphasize the qualities of space itself rather than the things that fill it. The apparent simplicity and serenity of Messana O’Rorke’s designs belie the astonishing richness and variety of the experiences they nurture.The architects’ projects span a wide spectrum of residential and commercial assignments in multiple geographies—city, country, mountain, desert, coastal. Yet even as they adapt theirTrade Review"The architects’ projects span a wide spectrum of residential and commercial assignments in multiple geographies—city, country, mountain, desert, coastal. Yet even as they adapt their fundamental design vocabulary to address differences in program and context, Messana O’Rorke’s signature remains unmistakable in the ways they carve space and light. Their designs simultaneously foster both contemplation and invigoration, repose and action. There is no straining for theatrical effect, no tortured architectural calisthenics, simply a search for order, clarity, and beauty." —ARCH DAILY"Award-winning architecture firm Messana O’Rorke was founded by Brian Messana and Toby O’Rorke in 1996. Since then, they’ve designed residential and commercial buildings across the globe from slick city homes to desert abodes. Though each project is incredibly unique, the duo’s signature style remains: quality, minimalist spaces with a refined simplicity and tranquility. It only made sense that their debut monograph Messana O’Rorke: Building Blocks, authored by Architectural Digest’s veteran west coast editor Mayer Rus, would celebrate their most distinguished projects around the world." —ROBB REPORT
£44.00
Saqi Books Mohamed Makiya
Book SynopsisFascinating biography of one of the Middle East's greatest architects whose life story is intrinsically connected to that of Iraq.
£17.00
Vendome Press Outside In
Book SynopsisM. Brian Tichenor and Raun Thorp, both California natives, worked with leading Los Angeles architecture and landscape design firms before founding their own company. Judith Nasatir is the author of numerous books. Pilar Viladas is architecture and design editor at Town & Country. Roger Davies is an architecture and interiors photographer.
£36.00
Museum of Modern Art The Show To End All Shows
Book SynopsisCorrespondence detailing the collaboration-cum-collision between Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, about the staging of a retrospective work, and the publication of a book to accompany it, is published here for the first time, including a controversial piece by Walter Curt Behrendt.
£15.20
Museum of New Mexico Press Georgia OKeeffe in New Mexico
Book SynopsisAt various intervals between 1931 and 1945, Georgia O''Keeffe (18871986) completed seventeen drawings and paintings of katsina tithu (kachina dolls), the painted-wood representations of spirit beings carved by Native American artist -- especially Hopi and Zuni -- that have long played an important role in Pueblo and Hopi ceremonialism. O''Keeffe never explained how or why she became interested in these Native American carvings. Because she gave generic titles to her paintings of them except those works depicting Kokopelli, she may not have been aware of their specific names, meaning, or functions. But the artist always took inspiration from her immediate environment, whether working abstractly or representationally, often seeking subjects that conveyed her feelings for or experiences of specific places; her depictions of Native American spirit beings were no exception. As she later pointed out, My pictures are my statement of a personal experience. The book, which accompanies a touring
£30.59
Glasgow Museums Publishing Millet To Matisse 19th and 20th Century
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£13.06
Right Angle Publishing Ltd Terry Farrell and Partners Sketchbook 120598
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£14.20
Right Angle Publishing Ltd MacCormac Jamieson Prichard
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£31.50
Right Angle Publishing Ltd A3 Threads and Connections
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£17.10
Legare Street Press ThorvaldsenS Leben. Deutsch Unter Mitwirkung Des Verfassers Von H. Helms From Thorvaldsens Ungdomshistorie Thorvaldsen I Rom Thorvaldsen I Kiøbenhavn.
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£24.26
St. Martins Press-3PL Some of My Lives
£19.95
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC PAGON
Book SynopsisThrough the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects. As a group, PAGON went on to become largely overlooked in the history of modern architecture, even though its individual members which included Sverre Fehn, Jørn Utzon, Arne Korsmo, and Christian Norberg-Schulz became defining figures in Scandinavian and international modernism.This book tells the story of PAGON for the first time, offering an impressive account of the group's projects, buildings, and approach, and demonstrating why PAGON's projects are ripe for reappraisal in the international history of modern architecture. It shows how PAGON's architecture constitutes a unique continuity between the Scandinavian functionalism of the late 1930s and the modern movement in theUS, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-gardegroups within CTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Credits for figures and plates Acknowledgements Credits Introduction 1. Post-war architecture in Norway 2. A new Norwegian CIAM group is activated (1947–50) 3. Urban design and proposals for a radical transformation of Oslo 4. Visuality and the impact of study tours to the US, Mexico and Morocco 5. ‘Meccano for the Home’ and the idea of flexible housing 6. New housing typologies and realized buildings 7. Space, performativity and the home as an architectural work of art 8. Spiritual and spatial dimensions of the glass wall and the landscape 9. 1955–56: The end of PAGON? Note on archival source Bibliography on the writings of PAGON and its members (1951-1956) General Bibliography Index
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ludwig Hilberseimer
Book SynopsisThe German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influeTrade ReviewScott Colman’s excellent new book Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City contributes fundamentally to our renewed appreciation of the often-misunderstood German émigré architect. The book offers the definitive English-language account of Hilberseimer’s intellectual formation, cultural commitments, and urban aspirations. * Charles Waldheim, Harvard University, USA *This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer’s modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century. * Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Individual 2. Hilberseimer's Theory of Art 3. Organicism and Morphology 4. The Metropolis as an Organism 5. The Metropolis and the Work of Art 6. The City-Building-Art 7. Spiritualizing the Metropolis 8. Polarizing the Metropolis 9. The Fate of the Metropolis 10. Basso Continuo 11. Hilberseimer and Dada 12. The Equivalence of Art and Life 13. Metropolis-Building Bibliography Index
£90.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paolo Portoghesi
Book SynopsisThrough the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.It explores how Portoghesi's personal postmodern project was based on the triangulation of a renewed interest in historical architectural language, unprecedented use of media and intertwined links between architecture and politics. Organized in a sequence of critical chapters supported by the analysis of Portoghesi's most significant architectural projects including Casa Baldi (1959), The Mosque in Rome (197595) and his Strada Novissima exhibition (1980) and publications, the book unfolds around the three main themes of history, politics and media. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist Table of ContentsList of illustrations Series preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Italian postmodern architecture revisited State of the art Methodology and sources Structure Setting the scene 1 THE POSTMODERN PROJECT Impresario of postmodern architecture Choosing Rossi Mendini and the Banal Ideological duel with Tafuri Beyond Italy Galleria Apollodoro, a centre for Roman culture 2 TURN TO HISTORY Architect as historian/historian as architect Neoliberty polemic Instrumental value of the past Technique of lap dissolves Geometria borrominiana Casa Baldi, or the rehabilitation of the curve 3 SOCIALISM FOR FREEDOM Rise and leadership of the PSI Years of the protests Craxismo and the end of prohibitionism Staging the PSI Control over the lagoon The Mosque of Rome, between religion and oil 4 EMBRACING MASS MEDIA Mediatization of the building Ars oratoria Through the pages of the magazines Architecture on the dance floor From movie protagonist to stage set Casa Papanice framed by the camera EPILOGUE 1992 Annus horribilis Retreat to Calcata CODA By Maristella Casciato Notes Bibliography Index: Paolo’s world
£80.75
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Book SynopsisArchitect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the Politecnico in Milan, Rogers ensured a lasting influence on the field as a practitioner, theorist and educator. However his contributions have been largely neglected by scholarship outside of Italy.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book re-assesses Ernesto Nathan Rogers'' cultural legacy. It is the first comprehensive, critical work on Rogers in English, and emphasizes Rogers'' vision for the role of the architect as a public intellectual, as well as his commitment to pursue a renewed path of professional and culTrade ReviewHis design intelligence unconstrained by his mastery of modernist method, Ernesto N. Rogers, as this book amply demonstrates, created buildings equally appropriate to their time and to their place. * Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College Dublin, Ireland *The first account in English of the work of an important Italian modern architect and post-war CIAM leader. This book will be an excellent resource for teaching and scholarship worldwide on key ideas in modern architecture and urbanism. * Eric Paul Mumford, Washington University in St. Louis, USA *The architect as an artist, an intellectual, and a civic figure: by envisaging all the aspects of an essential figure of Italian post-war architecture, this study proposes a stimulating reflection on modernism as a global project. * Antoine Picon, Harvard University, USA *Maurizio Sabini offers a stimulating survey of Rogers’s architectural career. * Architectural Record *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Series Preface Foreword by Kenneth Frampton Acknowledgements Note on Translation Ernesto Nathan Rogers Biography Introduction 1. Criticality 2. Social Engagement 3. Teamwork 4. Cross-Disciplinarity 5. Internationalism 6. Masters 7. History 8. Civic Commitment and the Public Intellectual Notes Bibliography Index
£29.99
Monacelli Press Designs for Living: Houses by Robert A. M. Stern
Book SynopsisIn Designs for Living, Roger H. Seifter, Randy M. Correll, Grant F. Marani, and Gary L. Brewer, who lead the residential practice at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, present fifteen houses the firm has completed over the past ten years. From contemporary interpretations of the shingle style to robust Mediterranean designs, the houses are stylistically diverse reflecting RAMSA’s deep knowledge of history and precedent. Each partner provides insight into the design process and his individual approach to working with clients. Houses are located in dramatic settings from Napa and Sonoma to the spectacular coastline of the Hamptons and New England. Whether overlooking the ocean or nestled into the mountainside, these remarkable houses reveal the architects’ emphasis on the importance of context and their dedication to exploring the nature of place and environment. Each house invokes the vernacular architectural heritage particular to its region while gracefully reflecting its natural surroundings. Connecting contemporary lifestyles to traditional American aesthetics, these residences are exceptional both for their timelessness and their ability to evoke a conversation with the past - a dialogue the RAMSA partners believe lies at the heart of architecture.Trade Review"While many architecture firms curtail the residential side of their practices to take on more commercial and institutional commissions, AD100 stalwart Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) has maintained an enduring commitment to houses. From a Malibu compound modeled on a Mediterranean hill town to a Shingle Style manse in the Hamptons, their work displays not only a mastery of historical styles but also real dexterity in marshaling traditional idioms to the beat of the contemporary world." - Architectural Digest "The volume tours readers through fifteen houses completed by the RAMSA partners over the last decade. Stylistically diverse, historically informed, contextually appropriate, and functionally up to the moment, each offers its own lesson in timelessness." - New York Spaces "Most people will never own a home by Robert A.M. Stern. Most people will never even see a home by Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture and a favorite architect of the tasteful privileged. His houses, all of them extravagantly detailed and rooted in the architecture of centuries past, are hidden behind high hedged or at the ends of long driveways in places like Montecito, East Hampton, Martha's Vineyard and Kiawah Island. But now there is a bit of democratization going on, at least in how Stern's houses are presented." - 1st Dibs Introspective
£43.96
Monacelli Press Improvisations on the Land: Houses of Fernau +
Book SynopsisThe first monograph of the California firm whose regional sensibility and early attention to sustainable design anticipated the prevalent trends in residential architecture today. A generous look at the San Francisco Bay Area architects’ pioneering approach to sustainable houses, ranging from the vineyard regions of California to Telluride, Colorado; the rugged ranch lands of Montana and the picturesque hamlets of the Hudson Valley and Martha’s Vineyard. Since its formation in 1981, Fernau + Hartman has become renowned for its imaginative expansion of the possibilities of site- and region-specific architecture. Leaders in these concepts, as well as in sustainable design long before its currency today, Fernau + Hartman’s houses maximize the connection between the natural and built environments, intensify the experience of place, and invite an open, playful, and inventive approach to life. A Newport Beach weekend house has flexible sleeping quarters and almost everything else (spaces for cooking, eating, showering, and bathing) is outdoors; a house made of alternating indoor and outdoor rooms climbs up a Sonoma County hillside; and an island house inspired by the fishing village of Menemsha is composed as three independent gabled “sheds” docked at a central screened porch featuring a fireplace and dining table. With essays by Beth Dunlop, Laura Hartman, Thomas Fisher, and Daniel P. Gregory, Improvisations on the Land creates a multifaceted portrait of the firm’s history, philosophy, and practice - revealing as much about their process as the finished houses themselves. Models, axonometric drawings, floor and site plans, elevations, and photographs of vernacular structures - from a collapsed barn in Montana, to Colorado mining compounds and a louvered colonnade in the Sacramento River Delta - contribute to a full appreciation of Fernau + Hartman’s work, how its sense of spontaneity and joy provides the antidote to so much of the self-conscious architecture that surrounds us, and results in houses that push the possibilities of residential design today.
£29.66
Monacelli Press Inventive Minimalism: The Architecture of Roger
Book SynopsisAs rigorous as it is sumptuous, the work of Roger Ferris + Partners blends high style and modernist principles. This is the firm's first monograph. From family houses to historic restorations, hotels, and high-tech office spaces - the architectural firm of Roger Ferris + Partners has pursued uncommonly diverse projects at vastly different scales, all with an approach to design that synthesizes imagination and logic. Whether a 1,500-square-foot house on a narrow lot overlooking Long Island Sound, or the Royal Bank of Scotland’s US headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut - with a six-story glazed atrium and a “courtyard in the sky” on the roof of its two-story trading floor - a building that is “well conceived and artfully executed, cannot help but be beautiful.” Among Ferris’ major projects are a golf clubhouse that has turned a conservative typology on its ear with bladelike forms inspired by a racing engine turbine, and a partially sunken service entrance in which impresario Robert Wilson has staged theatrical productions. A design for a restaurant includes not only a central, glass-enclosed kitchen elevated 18 inches above the floor, but an art installation that periodically projects scrolling text on the dining room wall. In every project, the fulfillment of the client’s functional needs is rendered in the most elemental and legible way, resulting in both formal elegance and dramatic power.
£29.66
Monacelli Press Designs for Learning: College and University
Book SynopsisThrough more than thirty projects for major colleges and universities across the country and in China, Designs for Learning presents the principles and practices behind academic buildings, libraries, graduate centers, and academic facilities that sensitively integrate into the fabric of each campus. In its forty years, Robert A.M. Stern Architects has honed a contemporary practice that is in close dialogue with the past, making it one of the most admired architectural firms today. Even in its growing global reach and expanding practice areas, the firm maintains a close attention to form, context, local culture, and received tradition, as well as to the demands and needs of the building users. These principles have served the firm particularly well on campuses, where architectural styles and building traditions are often well established. Robert A.M. Stern Architects has created classroom buildings, student centers, athletic facilities, and libraries that respect and expand those traditions. In each case, the firm demonstrates a deep understanding of the American college campus, with its roots in Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia. In their buildings, "the present, interacting with memories of the past, can create something that can be interesting in the future." Each campus in Designs for Learning is described in detail, with historic photographs and campus plans illustrating its development. Projects by Robert A. M. Stern are placed in their context, providing a complete view of these distinguished places of learning.Trade Review"Despite its title, this monograph is about more than just designing buildings. Rather, the volume is a master class on creating entire environments for learning; it's as much about a special type of urban planning for educational communities as it is about creating individual structures.... Its pages are filled with handsome full-color images of each project - but it's not just a compilation of "beauty shots." Multiple views are provided of every building - both interior and exterior - so the reader can comprehend the character of each structure. To add to project understanding, photography is supplemented by campus ground plans plus floor plans of each building that was added." - Traditional Building
£51.96
The New York Review of Books, Inc Makers Of Modern Architecture
Book SynopsisEveryone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our built environment, veteran architecture critic Martin Filler offers fresh insights into this unprecedented cultural transformation. From Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper, to Frank Gehry, magician of post-millennial museum, Filler emphasizes how their force of personality has had a decisive effect on everything from how we inhabit our homes to how we shape our cities.Why was the sudden shift in architectural fashion that wrecked the career of the Scottish designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh not enough to destroy the indomitable spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright, who rose from adversity to become America’s greatest architect? Why was Philip Johnson, “dean of American architecture” during the 1980s, so haunted by the superior talent of this less-fortunate contemporary Louis Kahn that he could barely utter his name even at the peak of his own success? How did Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s dictum “Less is more” give way to Robert Venturi’s “Less is a bore”?Surveying such current urban design sagas as the reconstruction of Ground Zero and the reunification of Berlin, Filler also trains his sharp eye on some of the biggest names in architecture today, puncturing more than one overinflated reputation while identifying the true masters who are now building for the ages.
£34.85
Museum of Modern Art Bogdanovic by Bogdanovic: Yugoslav Memorials
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£25.60
Bauer and Dean Publishers Inc Jock Peters, Architecture and Design: The
Book Synopsis"An important document that should be included in any library of design and architecture." - Daniella Ohad "A masterful blend of émigré biography and architecture and design history, proving that the twentieth century fostered more than one modernism." - Donald Albrecht Christopher Long, author of seminal monographs on Adolf Loos, Kem Weber, and Paul T. Frankel, turns his attention to the little-known architect and designer Jock Peters, a largely forgotten figure of early Los Angeles modernism. This visually rich study is also an intimate portrait of an architect who, like too many, struggled to establish a career during the early decades of the 20th century, years ravished by World War I and the Great Depression. Among Peters's early works in Germany are designs for the Levantehaus and Karstadt department stores, an innovative design dated 1916 for a magnificent glass pavilion, and his work for Peter Behrens after the war, but the architect's most accomplished and compelling work came after 1922 when he settled in Southern California. Most notable are the strikingly lavish and elegant commercial interiors Peters designed for the iconic Bullock's Wilshire store in Los Angeles and the tragically forgotten Hollander department store in New York City; both projects brought him international recognition. The breathtaking scope of his short-lived career includes modern film sets for Famous Players-Lasky, later Paramount Pictures, while working under the legendary art director Hans Dreier; a dynamic sales office for the trendsetting Maddux Air Lines, which later became TWA; and modern residences, including the still extant homes he built for cinematographer Alfred Gilks, who would later win an Academy Award for An American in Paris, and art gallerist and developer William Lingenbrink for whom Peters also designed stores and a vibrantly colourful sidewalk for the Silver Strand beach development north of Los Angeles. Lingenbrink, a major supporter of the burgeoning modernism, also commissioned Jock Peters, alongside Schindler, to design houses for Park Moderne, the legendary avant-garde modernist retreat for artists in Calabasas. Peters also designed the retreat's Streamline Moderne pump house, clubhouse, and zigzag fountain, which still stands. This important study on early modernism includes never before published material from the architect's personal archive, still in family hands. These remarkable and inspiring images-more than 250 historic photographs, etchings, watercolours, and drawings-alongside Long's insightful narrative, demonstrate how Peters, despite his early death, managed to leave his mark on the modernist landscape in Southern California at a time when the new style was just emerging.Table of ContentsPreface Prologue Chapter 1 JARRENWISCH AND HAMBURG Chapter 2 AN ARCHITECTURAL APPRENTICESHIP Chapter 3 OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS Chapter 4 EXPERIMENTS IN STYLE Chapter 5 AMERIKA Chapter 6 FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY Chapter 7 PETERS BROTHERS Chapter 8 BULLOCK’S WILSHIRE Chapter 9 231 HOLLANDER Chapter 10 CALIFORNIA MODERN Epilogue List of Works by Jock Peters Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£33.75
Greystone Books,Canada Ron Thom, Architect: The Life of a Creative
Book SynopsisA definitive biography of an iconic Canadian architect—and a social portrait of the midcentury design world he lived in. Ron Thom came of age in the mid-20th century, just as the modern movement and an impending building boom were about to reshape the country. Talented in music and art as well as design, he rejected sleek austerity in favor of modern architecture that is warm, intimate, and beautiful. He worked from coast to coast, and his most renowned buildings—Massey College, Trent University, the Shaw Festival Theatre, and landmark houses—continue to inspire generations of architects, as well as the legions of people who work, study, visit, and live in them.In Adele Weder’s new biography, Thom emerges as a complex figure, gifted with creative genius but pursued by demons. More than just the life story of one man, this book is a portrait of the society that shaped him. His world included Jack Shadbolt, Arthur Erickson, the Massey family, Barbara, and Murray Frum, and many other luminaries of 20th-century Canada.To unpack this multifaceted story, Weder pored through institutional and personal archives in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Peterborough, and Toronto. She tracked down and interviewed Thom’s surviving friends, colleagues, and family members across the country, from New Brunswick to Vancouver Island. Her extensive research serves as the bedrock for Ron Thom, Architect—a book for anyone interested in a transformative era in Canada's cultural history.Trade Review"Through extensive archival research, but perhaps more importantly, interviews and on-site visits, Weder has illuminated what might be termed the time of meaning in Thom’s architecture."—The British Columbia Review "Details the career of one of Canada’s outstanding 20th-century architects and offers a sensitive interpretation of Ron Thom’s many relationships and the nature of his personal demons. . . It is a page-turner."—Michael Peterman, The Toronto Star "A thorough and compassionate portrait. . . Reads like a novel: tragic at times, but exhilarating in so many ways." —Canadian Architect "A terrific book—historically necessary and worthy of its subject. Also a great read." —Douglas Coupland, author of City of Glass "This wonderful study of Ron Thom's genius helped explain to me the difference between a humdrum shelter and something akin to a miracle." —John Fraser, master emeritus of Massey College and author of Eminent Canadians "Ron Thom is one of the most important—and misunderstood—figures in Canadian architectural history, and this compelling and meticulously researched biography sets the record straight." —Elsa Lam, editor of Canadian Architect and coauthor / editor of Canadian Modern Architecture "An insightful, enlightening, and gratifyingly fast-paced examination of one of Canadian architecture’s greatest minds and saddest lives." —Alexander Varty, BC Booklook "The book gives Mr. Thom his due as a designer, and it also raises tough questions about the state of architecture: Where are the great artists today? And does our society care enough about architecture to give them a shot?. . . Ms. Weder's book skillfully explains [Ron Thom's] 'instinctive' approach to composition. But she also reveals the man, who was brilliant, charismatic, driven and, in the end, brought low by addiction." —Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail "Thom was a true talent, and Weder captures how hard it was for him to create in a world that saw buildings not always as marvellous places to enhance life but rather as the more prosaic outcome of functional or commercial imperatives." —Kelvin Browne, Literary Review of Canada "Essential reading for anyone who has even a passing interest in Canadian architecture, and even more so for practicing architects and students. Adele here has demonstrated her skills as an expert storyteller, having culled through what must've been a mountain of material to make this an entertaining and richly informative book." —Sean Ruthen, Spacing
£18.99
Phaidon Press Ltd Ithra: A Home for the World (The King Abdulaziz
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth exploration of the award-winning King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta Ithra, also known as the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is an unprecedented architectural achievement. Designed on a monumental scale by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, built by Saudi Aramco, and inaugurated by King Salman bin Abdulaziz in late 2017, Ithra has been listed in Time magazine as one of the world’s top 100 places to visit and is the winner of Project of the Year and Best Innovative Project of the Year at the Construction Innovation Awards in 2019. This multi-purpose cultural institution, with its unusual geometric sculptures, is one of a kind in contemporary architecture. With stunning imagery and a holographic wrap-around case, the book offers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration for Ithra, from the competition process and selection of the architect to its complex construction and reveals the story behind this striking architectural gem, from its inception to its realization.
£80.00
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Collett-Zarzycki: The Tailored Home
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with beautiful photographs and drawings, Collett-Zarzycki: The Tailored Home provides a thoughtful and comprehensive account of how this atelier has built an extraordinary portfolio of residential work over the last 30 years. From London town houses to Tuscan retreats to new build vacation homes on the French Riviera, Collett-Zarzycki’s work encompasses architecture, interiors and landscape design, with an emphasis on refined spaces, crafted materials and bespoke furniture. This rare capacity to span the entire spectrum of design has given rise to homes of great cohesion and charm, as well as originality and individuality. With backgrounds in the art world and engineering, as well as formative years in both Africa and the UK, Anthony Collett and Andrzej Zarzycki bring a wealth of experience to bear upon projects that are defined by their unique sense of character, developed in response to site, setting and the considered needs of their clients. Whether the commission is for a penthouse interior, a town house reinvention, or a new build country or coastal home, there are common themes to their work, with an emphasis on craft, materiality, attention to detail and timeless elegance, fusing contemporary living with Neoclassical, Arts & Crafts and Modernist influences. The book offers insights into the influences and inspiration behind the firm’s work, into founding partners Collett and Zarzycki’s unique collaborative working practices, their ability to work across a range of forms and scales and their use of contemporary artisan craftsmen in the bespoke fixtures, fittings and furniture which are integral to many of their projects.Table of ContentsIntroduction; RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE; New Forest House; Cannes House; Provence-Alpes Villa; Safari Lodge; Alpes-Maritimes Villa; INTERIORS – COUNTRY; Tuscan House; La Bergerie; Corsican House; Hotel Almhof Schneider; INTERIORS – TOWN; St James’s Apartment; Eaton Square Apartment One; Eaton Square Apartment Two; Collett Townhouse; Zarzycki Townhouse; Chelsea Duplex; Knightsbridge Townhouse; WAYS OF MAKING; Bespoke Design; Integrated Furniture; Loose Furniture; Lighting; Kitchens; Bathrooms; Bedrooms; Tailored Space; Chronology and Acknowledgements
£55.78
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Provocations: The Work of David Connor
Book SynopsisDavid Connor is a British interior and architectural designer, who in the early 1980s was one of a few pioneers who changed perceptions of what design could be. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Connor began his career as an interior designer before branching out into architecture. His clients and collaborators include Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm McLaren, Adam Ant, Janet Street Porter, Marco Pirroni and Leyton House, amongst others.This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients. With beautiful illustrations and photographs, it considers the impact of his interior-design education on his architectural projects and the link between his drawing techniques and the particularity of his finished work.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Ways and Means; 3. Early Years; 4. The Seminal Projects; 5. Architecture in California; 6. Building for a Void; 7 Atlantic Bar and Grill; 8. M Café (and other commercial and residential projects in Taiwan); 9. Vivienne Westwood's Shop in Mayfair, 1993; 10. Live TV; 11. Notting Hill Flat; 12. House for Anish Kapoor; 13. Hermit; 14. Croft Lodge Studio
£33.75
Merrell Publishers Ltd Country House Ideal: Revent Work by ADAM
Book SynopsisAs in the past, anyone who builds a country house today will want the first sight of it to impress, but they will also have requirements suited to 21st-century life. ADAM Architecture has an international reputation for its diverse portfolio, and its country houses are among the practice's most admired work. 'The Country House Ideal' explores the way in which ADAM Architecture uses historical precedents, including construction techniques, materials and layout, to give expression to thoroughly modern projects. While the practice is famed for classical design, the houses featured here are far from pastiche, and could have been built at no other time than our own. Architectural historian Jeremy Musson first sets the modern country house in its rich historical context, then presents a series of magnificent new houses, arranged into chapters reflecting a variety of traditional styles: Anglo-Classical, Rural Romantics, Palladian and Neoclassical. This lavishly illustrated book reveals how, in an ADAM Architecture design, such considerations as energy conservation, technology and sustainability receive meticulous attention all in pursuit of the country house ideal. AUTHOR: Jeremy Musson is an architectural historian, writer and broadcaster. Formerly Architectural Editor of Country Lifemagazine, he is the author of 'English Ruins' (with Paul Barker; Merrell, 2011) and several books on English country houses, including 'English Country House Interiors' (2011). SELLING POINTS: . The first book devoted to the country houses of one of the world's leading practices specialising in classical design . Focuses in-depth on 19 new houses in England and Scotland in a range of styles, all specially photographed for the book . Written by a well-known expert on the history of country houses 270 colour photos, 6 plansTable of ContentsThe Country House Ideal: A British Perspective; The Country House Ideal: An American Perspective; Introduction; The English Country House Ideal: Anglo-Classical, Rural Romantics, Palladian, Neoclassical; The Art of Fine Building; Bibliography; Index
£34.00
Pesaro Publishing Alex Popov Architects: Selected Works 1999-2007
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£33.30
Hood Hood Books Ltd Sinan
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£7.08
Unicorn Publishing Group thearchitectsculptorras
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£9.74
Clearview Thinking & Living Like An Architect
Book SynopsisDivided into three chapters, Houses in the City, Houses in the Country and Places People Go To, the book showcases some of MBA's most spectacular projects, showing site pictures before, during and after construction. Most architecture books gloss over the nightmare part of the build, but the authors are keen to explain exactly what to expect during the process. Scattered throughout the book are some of the inspirations for MBA's designs, things they like and items that inspire them. While much of their work is focused in Central London, MBA has undertaken commissions worldwide including France,Germany and Los Angeles. In particular, their work for the Soho House Group and their emphasis on recycling and the environment have been the hallmarks of their success. Whether their commissions are commercial, residential or charitable, country or town houses, hotels, restaurants or bars, MBA create spaces you really want to eat, live or stay in. A quirky sense of humour is always at play, infusing their work with an empathy and warmth that many architects in the same filed just miss. Theirs is a vibrant and very busy practice.
£25.50
Hato Press Our Life Book - Kentaro Okawara
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£42.75
D Giles Ltd The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt
Book SynopsisThe illustrated story of the life and times of architect Richard Morris Hunt, his forty-year career, and his impact on American culture after the Civil War.
£36.00
Right Angle Publishing Ltd Stream of Sketches
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£18.00
Right Angle Publishing Ltd Allies and Morrison 2: Projects 2003-12
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£31.50
Right Angle Publishing Ltd Dixon Jones 2: Buildings and Projects 1998-2019
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£31.50
Right Angle Publishing Ltd The City Works: Eric Parry Architects
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£31.50
Right Angle Publishing Ltd Allies and Morrison 3
£31.50
Editions Flammarion Currently Classic: Jonathan Rachman Design
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£40.00
Cahiers d'art Frank Gehry: Catalogue Raisonné of the Drawings
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£280.25
Cahiers d'art Cahiers d’Art - Cildo Meireles: 46th Year
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£69.30
Birkhauser Mies van der Rohe. Das gebaute Werk
Book SynopsisDiese grundlegende und umfassende Mies-Monografie betrachtet sein Werk von einem entwurfsbezogenen Standpunkt der Architektur aus: Sie rekonstruiert die Bauten in ihrem realisierten Zustand und sieht sie gleichsam auf Augenhöhe des heutigen Betrachters: als qualitätvolle und nach wie vor inspirierende Architektur eines großen Meisters der Moderne. Das Buch präsentiert80 realisierte Bauten Mies’ in chronologischer Reihenfolge. Dabei werden etwa 30 dieser Werke in drei Schritten ausführlich analysiert: Im ersten Schritt wird der Bau in seinem ausgeführten Zustand dokumentiert: sämtliche Grundrisse wurden dafür durch den Autor neu gezeichnet; im zweiten werden die baulichen Veränderungen dargelegt, und der dritte Schritt arbeitet die Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchung hinsichtlich ihrer Relevanz für den heutigen Blick auf Mies’ Schaffen heraus.
£57.95
Birkhauser Raumdramaturgie: Typologie und Inszenierung von
Book SynopsisArchitektonische Räume und Raumfolgen werden wesentlich von ihrer wirkungsvollen Inszenierung mitbestimmt. Das Repertoire solcher Inszenierungen fassen, formulieren, analysieren und für die Anwendung beim Entwerfen aufbereiten ist der Gegenstand der Raumdramaturgie. Raumdramaturgie wird in diesem Buch in vier großen Teilen dargestellt: Die archetypischen Grundzüge von Rauminszenierungen lassen sich anschaulich anhand dreier Versammlungshäuser der frühen Neuzeit in Venedig entwickeln. Aus dem Horizont von Theater, Film, Musik und Theorie wird architekturrelevantes dramaturgisches Wissen zur Verfügung gestellt. Einen neuen Blick auf beispielhafte Bauten der Gegenwartsarchitektur – von Scharouns Berliner Philharmonie über das IIT-Studentencenter in Chicago von Rem Koolhaas und ein Schwimmbad von Jean Nouvel bis hin zu einem Kindergarten bei Zürich von L3P Architekten – eröffnen detaillierte Analysen ihrer inszenatorischen Mittel und Lösungen. Den vierten Teil bildet eine systematischen Darstellung der Parameter und Dimensionen von Raumdramaturgie als Werkzeug des Entwerfens.
£57.95
Birkhauser Polychromie architecturale: Le Corbusiers
Book SynopsisLe Corbusier designed two color collections for the Salubra wallpaper company: the “Clavier de couleurs” of 1931, with 43 colors, and the 1959 collection, with 20. Not content with the mere color selection, drawn from his experience as an architect and painter, he also organized the tones on 12 sample cards in such a manner that, by using a slider, three or five colors could be varyingly isolated or combined. Each card contained a different color scheme meant, when applied, to create a particular spatial effect. This would become not only a useful tool but also a kind of testament of the purist color theory, an essential groundwork and a valuable instrument for all those who deal with color in theory or practice. In the first volume, Arthur Rüegg, the renowned Le Corbusier expert, explores the significance of the Salubra collections for the history of modern architecture, and in the epilogue to this third edition, presents the specialist research conclusions from the last twenty years. The second volume contains 13 color plates with the 63 colors, printed using the screen printing method and glued by hand as well as 4 separate sliders in pocket. Volume three consists of 63 full page color sample sheets, also printed using the screen printing method.
£273.15
