Old and New Architecture: Design Relationship

N/A

Washington DC, Preservation Press: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 280 pages. Contains black & white photography and illustrations of architecture. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 508193

Ornaments of the Metropolis: Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture

Reeh, Henrik

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages, paperback. Study on themes of the ornament in Kracouer's writings on urbanism. Translated by John Irons. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight bumping to corners. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952091

Russian Experiment in Art, The : 1863-1922

Gray, Camilla

Softcover. London UK, Thames and Hudson, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages, paperback. The most compact and accurate survey of creative and dynamic activity that influenced the progress of Western art and architecture. Revised and enlarged edition. Mild rubbing and light fading to wraps. 256 illustrations, 21 in color. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450027

Seven Lamps of Architecture, The

Ruskin, John

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley, 1st US, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages plus 6 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with 14 double-page etchings by Ruskin. Embossed green cloth with a gilt window arch on front cover. Covers are very good but the spine cloth is separating and chunks are gone from top and bottom of spine. Internally the book is very good except for moderate foxing throughout.

Record # 405206

Stone Shelters

Allen, Edward

Paperback. Cambridge, MA, MIT, Rep., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos, illust. 210 pages. Classic study of how architectural forms came into being as a result of geographic, social, political, and economic conditions. Profusely illustrated with photos and diagrams. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 63987

The Marble House in Second Street : Biography of a Town House and its Occupants, 1825-2000.

NA

Softcover. New York, Rensselaer County Historical Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Paperback. With essays by: Douglas G. Boucher, Stacy Pomeroy Draper and Walter Richard Wheeler. Black and white photographs and diagrams of various buildings and styles of architecture.

Record # 500110

Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard?

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Hardcover. New York, NY, The MacMillan Company, Second Printing, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with light sunfade to edges & gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with moderate wear to edges, small tears, price-clipped & light age toning. Author received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1970, related ephemera laid-in. Light small spots to right edge. Else clean, unmarked.

Record # 6670054

Wilson Harris and the Modern Tradition: A New Architecture of the World

Drake, Sandra E.

Hardcover. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, with gilt titles. Light markings in margins throughout, minor spine lean, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457177

Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect by: Woodbridge, Sally B., Illust. by: Barnes, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press , 1st Edition, 2nd Print, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear, most noticeable at the top and bottom of the spine. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full color and B&W photography throughout. This book captures the vision, wit, and down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century. This is a large-form book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's signature on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33948

Geometry & Art: How Mathematics Transformed Art During the Renaissance by: Wade, David

Softcover. NY, Shelter Harbor Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever. It follows the artists of the renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. This compelling volume uses engaging text, compelling historical accounts and beautiful illustrations to immerse readers in the fundamental renaissance forms which, although conceived over five-hundred years ago, still have the capacity to awe and inspire us with their beauty. Clean copy. Record # 34337

Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by: Sykes, A. Krista

Softcover. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Reprint, 2024, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite some minor edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. This intellectual biography of outspoken public activist, professor, and architectural historian and critic Vincent Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Previous owner's signature on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33883