Best of
Architecture

1997

Design Drawing


Francis D.K. Ching - 1997
    Design Drawing covers the traditional basics of drawing, including line, shape, tone, and space. The supplemental CD-ROM contains information and instruction that elucidates a broad range of design drawing concepts through animation, video, and three-dimensional models. Intended for use with the book or as a stand-alone product, the CD-ROM includes 25 interactive lessons which demonstrate concepts and techniques in a way that a 2-D book format cannot.

Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance


Karal Ann Marling - 1997
    Tracing the relationship of the Disney parks to their historical forebears, Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance charts Disneyland's evolution from one man's personal dream to a multinational enterprise, a process in which the Disney "magic" has moved ever closer to the real world. This is a unique perspective on one of the great post-war American icons.

Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture


Nicholas T. Dines - 1997
    It is fully metric, to meet Federal and International requirements. It features increased coverage of: Site storm water best management practices - New urban tree planting and xeriscape concepts - Earth retaining structures and pavement design - Land reclamation, including soil and vegetation restoration - Metric site layout practices, including recreation facilities - Energy and resource conservation - Natural processes and site construction procedures - New expanded construction details - Simplified construction materials data. Over 50 sections provide concise tables, checklists, Key Point text summaries, and illustrations to provide an invaluable information resource for offices and classrooms throughout the world.

Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making


Simon Unwin - 1997
    Aimed primarily at those studying architecture, it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his own notebooks, the author dissects examples from around the world and all periods of history to explain the underlying strategies in architectural design and show how drawing may be used as a medium for analysis.In this new edition, Analysing Architecture has been revised and expanded. Notably, the chapter on 'How Analysis Can Help Design' has been redeveloped to clearly explain this crucially important aspect of study to a beginner readership. Four new chapters have been added to the section dealing with Themes in Spatial Organisation, on 'Axis', 'Grid', 'Datum Place' and 'Hidden'. Material from the 'Case Studies' in previous editions has been redistributed amongst earlier chapters. The 'Introduction' has been completely rewritten; and the format of the whole book has been adjusted to allow for the inclusion of more and better illustrative examples.Works of architecture are instruments for managing, orchestrating, modifying our relationship with the world around us. They frame just about everything we do. Architecture is complex, subtle, frustrating... but ultimately extremely rewarding. It can be a difficult discipline to get to grips with; nothing in school quite prepares anyone for the particular demands of an architecture course. But this book will help.

Radical Reconstruction


Lebbeus Woods - 1997
    His body of theoretical work and extraordinary drawings have served as inspiration for architects, artists, and legions of students. Radical Reconstruction, now available in paperback for the first time, contains projects that address the relationships between architecture and war, political revolution/reaction, and natural disasters. These projects define new approaches to the reconstruction of buildings and urban fabric damaged by unpredictable and largely uncontrollable forces of both human and natural origin.

A. G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions


Jo Farb Hernandez - 1997
    Rizzoli (1896-1981) worked as a draughtsman for a San Francisco architect. By night he made intricate coloured ink drawings of his dream city and other architectural visions. Skyscrapers, Gothic cathedrals, the Duomo in Milan - reconfigured and sometimes floodlit Hollywood-style - were intended as architectural stand-ins for people known to the artist.

Romanesque Art: Architecture Sculpture Painting


Rolf Toman - 1997
    The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes. The books successfully provide an overview of the artistic diversity of the individual periods, and they couldn't have been written and illustrated any more clearly.

Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales


Pete Nelson - 1997
    Well, just because you've grown up, it doesn't mean you can't enjoy the sense of liberation a tree provides. Here is the most comprehensive guide ever to building your own castle in the air, be it a simple child's playhouse or an adult's cozy retreat with all the modern conveniences, including electricty. Peter Nelson, the nation's foremost authority on treehouses, tells you everything you need to know about designing and building the house that's right for you and your family. He gives you information on site selection (why some trees provide better homes than others), safety issues, tree care, advice on styles and materials, and other essential rules of thumb that will save time and money.Nelson walks you through the construction of four actual projects: a children's playhouse, a vacation home, an office, and a full-time residence. Whether you'd like to build your children a safe and fun place to play and dream, or you're contemplating your own retreat from the drudgeries of earthbound living, this practical, wildly fanciful guide will show you how to make your tree fantasies come true.

Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data


David A. Adler - 1997
    For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data.

Ladders


Albert Pope - 1997
    While it is clear that the complex fabric of traditional urban form has been replaced by equally complex contemporary urban space, it is less clear what role form continues to play in its present structural configuration. Ladders attempts to identify the contemporary dialectic between urban space and form as the key to engaging the unprecedented qualities of contemporary urban space.

The Architecture Pack : A Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour of Architecture over the Centuries : What Architects Do, How They Do It


Ron van der Meer - 1997
    He recreates such masterpieces as Chartres Cathedral, a Renaissance palazzo, a Palladian villa, a Chicago skyscraper, the Sydney Opera House, and the Getty Center. 7 spreads with full-color foldouts, pullouts, & popups.

Hundertwasser Architecture


Friedensreich Hundertwasser - 1997
     The highly irregular architecture of a freethinking artist   “A house must be a living, organic entity that develops and constantly changes,” stated Friedensreich Hundertwasser in one of his arguments for his nature- and human-oriented architecture. Success vindicated his vision: roof afforestation, organic forms, colorful façades, uneven floors, irregularly positioned windows, gilded onion domes—Hundertwasser’s architecture is unmistakable.   From the beginning of his artistic career in the ’50s, Hundertwasser was preoccupied with architecture in his painting. Then began his engagement with manifestos, essays and demonstrations; later followed architectural models in which he illustrated, for example, his ideas on roof afforestation and an individual’s right to his very own window. As an “architectural doctor” he created unregimented irregularities and realized exemplary architectural projects.  This comprehensive directory of Hundertwasser’s architectural works presents all his buildings and projects, whether realized or not, tracing them from the first sketches, through to models, and completion. Dr. Andrea Christa Fürst, a longtime employee of the Hundertwasser Archive, made a major contribution to this publication.

Frank Lloyd Wright


Robert McCarter - 1997
    While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent public figures and political ideas. In this new biography, Robert McCarter distills Wright’s life and work into a concise account that explores the beliefs and relationships so powerfully reflected in his architectural works. McCarter examines here how Wright aspired to influence America’s evolving democratic society by the challenges his buildings posed to traditional views of private and public space. He investigates Wright’s relationships with key leaders of art, industry, and society, and how their views came to have concrete significance in Wright’s work and writings. Wright argued that architecture should be the “background or framework” for daily life, not the “object,” and McCarter dissects how and why he aspired to this and other ideals, such as his belief in the ethical duty of architects to improve society and culture. A penetrating study of the foremost pioneer in modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright offers a fascinating biographical chronicle that reveals the principles and relationships at the base of Wright’s production.

Death of the Dream: Farmhouses of the Heartland


William G. Gabler - 1997
    Now the last of their original farmhouses are disappearing. "There was no way to save them, " writes author William Gabler, "but their great homeliness and variety could be recorded in photographs."

Architect's Pocket Book


Charlotte Baden-Powell - 1997
    It features data about planning, structure, services, building elements, materials and addresses, and can be used both at the drawing board and on site. The selection of the material by the author is based on many years of practice in both public and private offices. This edition contains 36 pages of new information on issues from cycle parking spaces to types of paint.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin (Tpc Exclusive) West


Kathryn Smith - 1997
    Taliesin was sited overlooking lush, contoured farmland, whereas Taliesin West was incorporated into the rugged, arid desert. Taliesin evoked protection with deep, hovering roofs, while Taliesin West seemed ephemeral with only translucent canvas overhead. The stimulation of these contrasts inspired and sustained Wright until his death in 1959. Today both sites are still in operation, housing the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and Taliesin Architects. Both properties are National Historic Landmarks and are open for public tours. Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West provides a lavishly illustrated introduction to the architecture, interiors, art collection, gardens, decorative arts, furniture, and graphic design of these two studio-residences. Chapter introductions discuss Wright's life and the evolution of the two properties, which he designed and redesigned over the course of many decades. Then each building is illustrated, on the exterior and room by room in stunning color photographs commissioned especially for this book. Also featured are many archival photographs of Wright at work and at leisure; drawings and plans; photographs of selected pieces of furniture, art objects, and examples of graphic design; and a chapter on Oak Park Home and Studio, which preceded Taliesin as Wright's first home. A special highlight is the chapter on Wright's collection of Asian art, which was reputed at one time to be among the largest and finest in the United States, and today consists of screens, woodblock prints, sculpture, ceramics, rugs, and textiles.

Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant: The Holiest Cities of Islam


Ali Kazuyoshi Nomachi - 1997
    Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant is an unprecedented photographic exploration of the holiest cities of Islam and the Hajj, or annual pilgrimage during Ramadan when more than a million faithful journey to Mecca's Great Mosque to commemorate the first revelation of the Qur'an (Koran).This book allows both Muslims and those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith complete access to the holiest sites of one of the world's major religions, practiced by a quarter of the world's population but often misunderstood in the West.Photographer Ali Kazuyoshi Namachi, a Muslim convert from Japan, garnered the full support of Saudi Arabian authorities—rarely given—to shoot in cities where photography is strictly controlled, and non-Muslims are not allowed.An expansive work of photojournalism, Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant includes:140 full-color, never-before-seen photographsMystical places and scenes of IslamBreathtaking aerial photographs of the Arabian terrainVistas of teeming crowds of worshippers surrounding the Kasbah, Mecca's sacred centerIntense portraits of faithful Muslims in prayerMagnificent architecture reflecting the faith of the believersArchival illustrationsText by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the most highly regarded scholars of Islam, enhances the stunning Islamic holy city photographs to illuminate many aspects of Islamic belief that have remained enigmatic to non-Muslims—until now.

Landscape in Sight: Looking at America


J.B. Jackson - 1997
    This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson’s sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, articles originally published under pseudonyms, a bibliography of his landscape writings, and introductions that place his work in context."Jackson remains a model for civil discussion of architecture and the landscape."—Michael Leccese, Architecture"[This book] contains several wonderful essays in what is best described as domestic anthropology, including a paean to mobile homes and an investigation of the humble garage. Vintage Jackson."—Witold Rybczynski, Lingua Franca"A large and varied sampler of essays by the late doyen of American cultural geography. . . . Highly recommended for geographers and students of the American scene."—Kirkus Reviews"Horowitz makes the reader appreciate once again the dignity and affection Jackson brought to garages, supermarkets, cemeteries, or the urban grid."—Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times

Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand


Malcolm McCullough - 1997
    In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, Malcolm McCullough observes that the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just as a set of tools, suggests a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional craft.

Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect


Kathryn Smith - 1997
    This satisfying volume is complete with drawings and rarely seen works from Wright's own Asian art collection.

Victorian House Designs in Authentic Full Color: 75 Plates from the "Scientific American -- Architects and Builders Edition," 1885-1894


Blanche Cirker - 1997
    Invaluable to architects, home restorers, and preservationists; of immense interest to lovers of Victorian architecture.

An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy


James Steele - 1997
    An exclusive volume presents ideas championed by one of the most influential 20th-century architects of the Third World.

The New Amsterdam: The Biography of a Broadway Theater


Mary Henderson - 1997
    The book is elaborately illustrated, and brings to life the theater's legendary past. The New Amsterdam is celebrating its renewed glory with the premiere run of The Lion King on Broadway.

Mineheads


Bernd Becher - 1997
    As documenters of the industrial era in Europe and the United States - an era now drawing to a close - they are not only photographers, but "industrial archaeologists, " salvaging testimonies of past developments in the form of "readable" documents for posterity. At the same time, the Bechers could also be called conceptual artists, as their photographs reveal the meaning and transformative character of structure. Regardless of their subject, the Bechers' photographic technique has remained constant for decades. Eschewing dramatic lighting effects, they shoot under overcast skies, framing their subject in the center of the picture and shooting from a slightly raised standpoint. The effect of their cool, rigorous approach is to reduce the individual structures they photograph within each typological category to morphological studies executed with artful neutrality. Their singleminded vision, signature style, and photographic identity have influenced an entire generation of younger photographers and have had a major impact on the worlds of conceptual art, architecture, sculpture, and criticism.

Florence: Art and Architecture


Antonio Paolucci - 1997
    Prominent Florentine scholars and museum directors accompany the reader on a journey to the unique artistic treasures of this city on the Arno. The experts introduce superb historical buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as "insiders" lead you through world famous painting galleries such as the Accademia and the Palazzo Pitti.

Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940


Anthony K. Baker - 1997
    The island's beauty, its proximity and easy travel access to New York, and its suitability for yachting and other recreational pursuits made it the perfect place for the leisure class. From the Civil War to World War II, almost 1000 estates were built there, often by the nation's richest families--Morgan, Vanderbilt, Hearst, Astor, Woolworth, Chrysler, Whitney, Tiffany, Frick, and Guggenheim, to name a few.Long Island's rich architectural history is presented in this important and long-awaited volume. It is at once a fascinating glimpse at the homes of some of America's wealthiest families and a complete compendium of the architects who designed these breathtaking houses. Among them are Delano Aldrich; Cass Gilbert; Richard Morris Hunt; McKim, Mead White; Horace Trumbauer; Calvert Vaux; and Warren Wetmore.

Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture & High Technology


Catherine Slessor - 1997
    While daring feats of structural engineering still mark recent projects by the architects who forged the earliest examples, a new generation has expanded the vocabulary of this architectonic language, and evolved an architecture with different aims. The most significant of these objectives is to create a sustainable architecture.This international survey presents projects completed in the 1990s that use high-tech forms and materials for environmentally intelligent means. It brings together innovative approaches by established practitioners -- Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Michael Hopkins -- with a new generation -- Thomas Herzog, Von Gerkan Marg, Design Antenna, and Itsuko Hasegawa.The introduction charts the evolution of high-tech architecture and its progression toward more ecological concerns, and the movement as a whole is considered in a broader architectural context. At the book's heart is a selection of forty of the world's most sophisticated projects, each with a thorough description of its unique architectural and technological features, as well as extensive plans, drawings, and sketches. A complete reference section includes architect biographies and technical details of each project. Accompanying the texts and drawings are spectacular photographs, most of which were specially commissioned for this publication.

The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building


John Cole - 1997
    Smithmeyer and completed in 1897 at a cost of under seven million dollars, the building is enhanced by the art of over forty sculptors and painters whose ranks include such notables as Herbert Adams, Kenyon Cox, Edward Clark Potter, Louis Saint-Gaudens, and John Quincy Adams Ward.The planning and construction are detailed in John Y. Cole's essay, followed by discussions by Henry Hope Reed, Richard Murray, and Thomas P. Somma of the decorations, paintings, and sculptures. The volume concludes with a study of the restoration by Barbara Wolanin, a chronology, a glossary of architectural and decorative terms, and a biographical dictionary of all the artists, architects, and designers who worked on the building. Throughout, noted photographer Anne Day's color images enhance this splendid book.

French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide To New Orleans' Vieux Carrڳe


Malcolm Heard - 1997
    Established in 1718, the town received its gridded plan from a French military engineer in 1721. Most of the buildings standing today date from the nineteenth century, with eighteenth and twentieth century structures interspersed.This detailed architectural handbook describes how to "read" French Quarter architecture by determining a structure's "type," its component parts, and its style. The basic "types" are termed the French Colonial house, the Spanish Colonial house, the cottage, the town house, and the shotgun house. The basic "component parts" are doors, windows, shutters, balconies, courtyards. The styles are based upon decorative motifs common to distinctive historical periods (Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic, Italianate, etc.). Each reveals that the colonists' native architectural traditions were transformed into a set of structures adapted to the moist heat of semitropical Louisiana. With images of buildings, plans, and sections from the French Quarter's remarkable inventory, this guide illustrates how a succession of styles from the eighteenth to the twentieth century has been draped over a range of building types.Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, it will provide with equal satisfaction a start-to-finish "read," a search for specific information, or a concentrated browse. Illustrated with some 200 photographs and 50 line drawings, this handy manual will be essential for architects, historic preservationists, and general readers interested in the buildings of one of America's richest historic districts.

Time-Saver Standards Landscape Construction Details


Nicholas T. Dines - 1997
    It's your fastest route to general details, applications, installation notes, and cost data. More than 350 landscape details in CAD and PICT formats include color photographs of built examples. The interactive format lets you customize designs in record time, and you can download details into CAD programs such as AutoCAD and DataCAD. Details are provided for paving, paving joints, edges, dividers, curbs, steps, seatwalls, planting, lighting, drainage, and much more.

Ricardo Legorreta Architects


Ricardo Legorreta - 1997
    His signature use of brilliant saturated reds, purples, and yellows, thick-textured walls of stucco and plaster, and mysterious, light-filled spaces has earned him a devoted following and a distinguished international reputation. Legorreta's highly personal aesthetic combines a deep appreciation of traditional Mexican architectural elements and culture with a thoroughly modern sense of design that reflects his early training with the Mexican master Luis Barragan. This long-awaited monograph showcases 25 of the architect's most recent and celebrated projects in Mexico, Texas, and California, with stunning color photography throughout and special focus on nine private houses. Among the projects shown here are vacation houses in Mexico and in Rancho Santa Fe and Sonoma County, California; the house of actor Ricardo Montalban and the renowned Greenberg House in Los Angeles; the new Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua; El Papalote Children's Museum and the City of the Arts, both in Mexico City; the new San Antonio Main Library in Texas; several high-profile buildings in Monterrey, Mexico, including an office complex designed to house an impressive collection of Mexican art and sculpture; and the famous Camino Real hotels in Mexico City and Ixtapa. An introduction and an interview with Legorreta, a list of projects, and a bibliography provide background and insight into this architect's prolific career.

Building Technology: Mechanical and Electrical Systems


Ben Stein - 1997
    Includes the most recently released building codes and clear and precise illustrations.

Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts and Crafts Interior


Paul Duchscherer - 1997
    Of special interest is the section devoted to the interiors of two of the "ultimate bungalows" - the Thorsen House in Berkeley, California - and the Gamble House in Pasadena, California - created by the Greene brothers, which epitomize the American Arts and Crafts style. Equally important is the "Before and After" section, in which thirty drab rooms have been totally transformed and now glow with the beauty of Craftsman design and furnishings.

The Rule and the Model: On the Theory of Architecture and Urbanism


Françoise Choay - 1997
    In this translation of her seminal work on architecture and urbanistic theory, Francoise Choay elucidates the entwined fate of two theoretical genres. One is represented by Alberti's architectural rule book De re aedificatoria, the other by Thomas More's idealizing projection of Utopia. Choay pursues the trajectories of these two genres in order to trace the genealogy of a third, more heterogeneous discourse associated with the term urbanism.

Rudolph Schindler


David Gebhard - 1997
    Trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, Schindler then migrated to Los Angeles under the apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright. Surrounded by a clientele of progressive thinkers in the emerging intellectual culture of Hollywood, Schindler created a radical and intensely personal architectural conception, resulting in some of the seminal works of the twentieth century. Gebhard's Schindler, first issued in 1971, is the only full-length account of Schindler's prolific yet unfulfilled career. The new edition includes 16 full-color illustrations of Schindler's renderings which were not included in the original. Charles Moore said, "David Gebhard's book about Rudolph Schindler was, for me, the most moving story of an architect that I have read since I was astonished at an early age by Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography." Includes a preface by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

Churches of Rome


Pierre Grimal - 1997
    Gorgeous color images by architectural photographer Rose abundantly illustrate this English translation of renowned Latinist Grimal's examination of the multitude of churches in pontifical Rome, rediscovering through them not only the evolution of Christianity but also the spirit of the ancient Imp

Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County


Walter C. Kidney - 1997
    

An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition


Arnold Lewis - 1997
    This volume also contains an extensive bibliography, arranged by country, and profiles of the foreign observers who sought the implications for European culture in what Asa Briggs called the "shock city" of the western world.

The Buildings of Charleston a Guide to the City's Architecture


Jonathan H. Poston - 1997
    The guide divides the city into nine geographic areas, with an introductory essay, maps, and illustrations.

Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works


Francesco Dal Co - 1997
    400 full-color illustrations.

Earth Sheltered Housing Design 1092


Underground Space Center - 1997
    

Architectural Drawing: A Visual Compendium of Types and Methods


Rendow Yee - 1997
     The Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect a wider range of techniques and styles than ever before, including: * 1,100 illustrations by today's most noted architects, including Tadao Ando, Rebecca Binder, Mario Botta, Lord Foster, Massimiliano Fuksas, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Ricardo Legorreta, Richard Meier, I. M. Pei, Cesar Pelli, Renzo Piano, Antoine Predock, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and Venturi Scott Brown * Over 250 new drawings * 30% new and revised material * A new, more user-friendly structure "This volume reveals how architects approach drawing as a process wherein ideas are given form. As a tool for teaching, these examples become important in students' understanding of the formal and technical aspects of design thought. In an age of digital technologies, this work emphasizes the intimate relationship that exists between the drawing and its maker, the process between paper, hand, and mind." -LaRaine Papa Montgomery, Professor of Architecture/Graphics Coordinator, Savannah College of Art and Design "A wonderful resource on design visualization and graphic communication that covers all aspects of drawing conventions and manual techniques of representation. Richly illustrated and professionally presented in a way that makes it accessible to beginners as well as advanced students, this book stands out as a core reference for courses on design graphics." -Dr. Samer Akkach, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and DesignThe University of Adelaide, South Australia "This book contains an abundance of some of the most inventive graphic presentations by world-class architects. As I browse through this book, the hundreds of pages of thought provoking images both relax and excite me, an experience that only a good read can bring. It illuminates the process of visual thinking behind some of the most creative minds. As the profession is becoming more and more constrained by economics and time, this book reminds us of how ideas in architecture began." -William W. P. Chan, AIA, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Morgan State University, Institute of Architecture and Planning

Mediterranean Style: Relaxed Living Inspired by Strong Colors and Natural Materials


Catherine Haig - 1997
    From Provence and Tuscany to Marrakech, an imaginative sense of color and pattern prevails, as well as a creative use of natural material and local designs. Floors are natural wood or tiled with terra-cotta, ceilings have exposed beams, and the imperfections of brick and plaster can be highlighted with a light wash of color.Inspiring photographs of Mediterranean places and a practical text guide us through the parts of a large or small home, with chapters devoted to walls, floors, windows, doors, furnishings, and outdoor spaces. In addition, there are 12 illustrated projects with clear instructions showing how to incorporate this style into a contemporary home.Packed with ideas, this original book explains how to achieve a simplicity that both reflects individual taste and is in tune with the current popularity for a unpretentious, informal, stylish home to relax in, whether a city apartment or a country house.

A Guide to Baltimore Architecture


John R. Dorsey - 1997
    Grouped by neighborhood in walking and driving tours, each building is pictured and described with a commentary on its history and style. This is a reference that will be informative to both the layman and the scholar; it will delight anyone who hopes to discover the architectural riches of the historic city that has become modern Baltimore.

Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York


Michael W. Brooks - 1997
    Its trains provide much more than just rapid transit. They give New Yorkers a powerful symbol of their metropolis, one that they use to express both their hopes and their fears for the urban future.Subway City explores New York's transit system as both fact and metaphor. Brooks traces the development of the subway from its inception as the newest and most efficient public transportation system to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life. The crowded cars gave Harold Lloyd material for comedy, fueled William Randolph Hearst's crusade against the Traction Trust, and convinced Lewis Mumford that the subway was a futile effort to solve the city's problems. Brooks explores films which have dramatized the dangers lurking below ground, and examines the infamous Bernhard Goetz shooting that made the subway a symbol of urban decay. More hopefully, he describes the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's station improvements and ambitious programs for Music Underground, Poetry in Transit, and Arts-in-Transit, as keys to the city's renewal.

Anybody


Cynthia Davidson - 1997
    However, the widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea of body but also how we inhabit the body, and how we make and inhabit space. How does the new understanding of the body relate to space? How does architecture adjust to this new idea of body? When does the body become the body politic? In this volume these and other questions are argued by 30 essayists, including architects Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Ben van Berkel, Enrique Norten, and Alejandro Zaero-Polo, and critics Fredric Jameson, Sylviane Agacinski, Elizabeth Grosz, Beatriz Colomina, and Brian Massumi.

Michele Saee: Buildings + Projects


Aris Janigian - 1997
    A monograph on Saee, which showcases 25 projects in the Los Angeles area, including Angeli Trattoria on Melrose-Avenue; two Ecru clothing stores; Design Express; a high-end furniture store; a custom jewellery store; a 20-unit apartment complex; and nine private houses.

Homes in a Box: Modern Homes from Sears Roebuck


Sears - 1997
    It gives a nostalgic look at the more than one hundred home kits sold by Sears Roebuck in the early 1900s. These homes were offered either as simple kits with only the blueprints and bill-of-materials or as complete homes with all materials and finishes. The architectural styles ranged from simple bungalows to beautiful homes with a strong Frank Lloyd Wright influence. Much of this Wright influence can be traced to the proliferation of Wright homes in the Chicago area, Sears home base. Thousands of these homes are still standing and still providing shelter to families across the country. Many of them are unaware of the source of their home's design. This book will help them trace their architectural heritage. It will also be an invaluable tool to those looking to trace the architectural history of the American home. is a facsimile reproduction of the Sears Modern Homes catalog. It gives a nostalgic look at the more than one hundred home kits sold by Sears Roebuck in the early 1900s. These homes were offered either as simple kits with only the blueprints and bill-of-materials or as complete homes with all materials and finishes. The architectural styles ranged from simple bungalows to beautiful homes with a strong Frank Lloyd Wright influence. Much of this Wright influence can be traced to the proliferation of Wright homes in the Chicago area, Sears home base. Thousands of these homes are still standing and still providing shelter to families across the country. Many of them are unaware of the source of their home's design. This book will help them trace their architectural heritage. It will also be an invaluable tool to those looking to trace the architectural history of the American home.

Building Machines


Robert McCarter - 1997
    Small in scale, low in price, but large in impact, these books present and disseminate new and innovative theories. The modest format of the books in the Pamphlet Architecture Series belies the importance and magnitude of the ideas within.

The Life & Work of Luis Barragan


José M. Buendia Julbez - 1997
    In this illuminating portrait, the personal and professional lives of this restless, deeply spiritual man unfold in engaging details, including his years in Guadalajara and Mexico City.

Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings


Thomas Durant Visser - 1997
    Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser’s field guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, and potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just their structure but their traditions and innovations before the surviving architectural evidence of this rich rural heritage is lost forever. A recognized authority on historic barn preservation, Visser has combed the six-state region for representative barns and outbuildings, and 200 of his photographs are reproduced here. The text, which includes accounts from 18th– and 19th–century observers, describes key architectural characteristics, historic uses, and geographic distribution as well as specific features like timbers and frames, sheathings, doors, and cupolas. From English barns to bank barns, from ice houses to outhouses, these irreplaceable assets, Visser writes, “linger as vulnerable survivors of the past. Yet before these buildings vanish, each has a story to tell.” Travelers, residents, and scholars alike will find Visser’s text invaluable in uncovering, understanding, and appreciating the stories inherent in these dwindling cultural artifacts.

African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place, and Gender


Labelle Prussin - 1997
    . . offers a massive amount of data on the technologies, styles and designs, as well as the symbolic and ritual meanings, of women's tent and related architecture in (various African) cultures".--WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS. 24 color, 66 b&w photos. 148 line drawings.

Peter Zumthor. Three Concepts


Peter Zumthor - 1997
    The craftsmanship of his buildings, their physical presence, simplicity and sensitive use of materials create an extraordinary impression. All of Zumthor's projects proceed from a patient search for a basic composition. So-called structural paintings provide first clues about the design and, at the same time, evoke in themselves a meditative pictorial atmosphere. The publication presents this "world of pre-figurations" with the examples of three new projects by the architect. Conceptual and structural sketches and texts by Zumthor recount the genesis of the Thermal Baths in the mountain village of Vals (opened in 1996), of the art museum in Bregenz (opening in 1997) and the memorial and museum building Topography of Terror in Berlin (planned). A series of plans and photographs of the models or realized buildings complete the documentation.

Sir Norman Foster (Big Series Art)


Philip Jodidio - 1997
    A detailed survey of the work of British architect, Sir Norman Foster, this volume includes details of projects from 1964 to the year 2000.

The Architects and the City: Holabird Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918


Robert Bruegmann - 1997
    Chicago has always held a special fascination for those interested in architectural and urban history. For many, the defining moment occurred at the turn of the century when Chicago was booming and the world came to the city by the lake. But the story most often told in architectural history—the tale of single creative geniuses like Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan—does little to explain the birth of the everyday modern city, with its high-rise downtown, diverse neighborhoods, and sprawling suburbs. This book connects architectural history with urban history by looking at the work of a major architectural firm, Holabird & Roche. No firm in any large American city had a greater impact.With projects that ranged from tombstones to skyscrapers, boiler rooms to entire industrial complexes, Holabird & Roche left an indelible stamp on the city of Chicago and, indeed, far beyond. In this volume, the first of two on Holabird & Roche and its successor, Holabird & Root, Robert Bruegmann traces the firm’s history from its founding in 1880 to the end of the First World War. Incorporating meticulous research based on the extensive architectural holdings of the Chicago Historical Society, Bruegmann documents the firm’s work from the boom years of the 1880s through the period of sustained growth and innovation after the turn of the century. In chapters devoted to topics as diverse as downtown commercial and retail development, business hotels, civic buildings, automobile showrooms, and suburban clubs and housing, Bruegmann creates a sustained historical narrative that considers the profound interdependence of architecture and modern urban life.

Barcelona: A City and Its Architecture


Josep Maria Montaner - 1997
    An illustrated outline of what Barcelona has to offer in terms of architecture, interior decoration and design, from the Gothic period to the present day.

Arabs and Normans in Sicily and the South of Italy


Alessandro Vanoli - 1997
    

Terra-Cotta Skyline: New York's Architectural Ornament


Susan Tunick - 1997
    These glazed splashes of vivid yellows, greens, cobalt blues, and metallic lusters often are made of terra cotta, which, for more than one hundred years, has been an integral - but largely unrecognizedpart of America's architectural legacy. Terra-Cotta Skyline reveals these architectural treasures in more than seventy-five color images commissioned exclusively for this book, as well as more than one hundred rare documents, drawings, and previously unpublished archival photographs. Accompanying text based on extensive research into the history of terra cotta provides anecdotes and insights into the working methods of the architects, sculptors, and artisans who designed with terra cotta - and the entrepreneurs and laborers involved in its manufacture. Terra-Cotta Skyline also tells of the efforts of determined current-day preservationists to protect this threatened part of our architectural heritage.

Scottish Houses and Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life


Ian Gow - 1997
    Here are the famous palaces and castles, from Holyroodhouse and Glamis to Inverrary and Culzean, recorded in photographs of timeless authority. Also profiled are the fragile ensembles of 18th-century houses—Arniston, Newhailes, Drum—shown with their gardens, plasterwork, tapestries, furniture, and paintings. Most breathtaking of all is Hamilton Palace and its incomparable collections photographed months before the house was demolished and its treasures scattered. Featuring more than 200 of Country Life’s finest photographs of some 20 houses, this collection truly shows the splendor of the Scottish house.

Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England


Philip Ayres - 1997
    In the century following the Revolution of 1688, the ruling class promoted--by way of its patronage--a classical frame of mind embracing all the arts, on the foundations of liberty and civic virtue. Ayres' study shows that the propensity to adopt the self image of virtuous Romans was the attempt of a newly empowered oligarchy to dignify and vindicate itself by association with an idealized image of Republican Rome.

Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico


Robert J. Mullen - 1997
    Many of these structures remain today as witnesses to the fruitful blending of Old and New World forms and styles that created an architecture of enduring vitality. In this profusely illustrated book, Robert J. Mullen provides a much-needed overview of Mexican colonial architecture and its attendant sculpture. Writing with just the right level of detail for students and general readers, he places the architecture in its social and economic context. He shows how buildings in the larger cities remained closer to European designs, while buildings in the pueblos often included prehispanic indigenous elements. This book grew out of the author’s twenty-five-year exploration of Mexico’s architectural and sculptural heritage. Combining an enthusiast’s love for the subject with a scholar’s care for accuracy, it is the perfect introduction to the full range of Mexico’s colonial architecture.

New York's Architectural Holdouts


Andrew Alpern - 1997
    

Le Corbusier: The Convent of La Tourette (Le Corbusier Guides (englisch/französisch))


Phillipe Potie - 1997
    Beginning with the rectangular form common to the Cirstercian monastic tradition, he created a building whose stark form contrasts beautifully with the organic elements of the interior court and the grasslands surrounding it. The church itself is a model of simplicity, the cement has been left rough and the well located sources of light evoke a feeling of silence and reflection. The order's precept of prayer, study and reflection is aptly mirrored in the architecture. Like the other Le Corbusier Guides published by Birkhauser, this volume provides a wealth of plans, details, photographs and information on this building which today is also a conference centre.

Perspective Drawing and Applications


Charles A. O'Connor - 1997
     The author examines materials and procedures, general principles and types of perspective, perspective measurement, auxiliary vanishing points, apparent scale, two point perspective grids and circles, compound forms, figures in perspective, reflections, shadows, sunlight and artificial light shadows, computer graphics and portfolio examples. For illustrators, designers, artists and architects.

American Theaters: Performance Halls of the Nineteenth Century


Joan Dillon - 1997
    It tells the story of why 19th-century theaters remain such a significant force in America's cities and towns, and in our national cultural identity.

California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright


David Gebhard - 1997
    These timelessly elegant and striking buildings -- 24 in all -- are known collectively as Wright's romanza, or romance, acknowledging the architect's love for California. Each of these classic edifices dynamically demonstrates Wright's genius for reflecting and enhancing the natural terrain with his creations. Incisive essays provide a critical overview and history of each structure and are generously illustrated with photographs, floor plans, and Wright's own renderings. This volume is an essential visual reference work that will appeal to anyone fascinated by the oeuvre of the 20th century's most influential architect.

Building Conservation Philosophy


John Earl - 1997
    Public thirst for visible evidence of the past is not, as it is often represented, a recent phenomenon. It was already well developed when an overseer of ancient monuments was appointed in sixth-century Rome. But if the desire to preserve aspects of the past is to do more than respond to popular whims and fashions or represent the personal views of ivory-towered scholars and specialists, it needs to have some kind of solid logical basis. Philosophical questions are raised at every turn. On what basis can buildings be singled out as "historic buildings," demanding special protection? On what authority can we justify interfering with private property rights in pursuing such protective processes? And how should we judge what is acceptable and unacceptable in the treatment of the buildings we value? In this third, substantially revised edition, the author examines the nature of monuments and the varied motives for preserving them. He traces the history of movements to preserve old buildings and the furious conflicts that have frequently surrounded restoration campaigns. Philosophical problems arising in modern conservation practice, including such controversial issues as "skin-deep preservation" and the use of substitute materials, are considered in detail. More space is devoted in this edition to contextual issues.New sections deal with issues of sustainability and the relationship of buildings to the townscape and landscape. The number of illustrations has also been greatly increased. The book is designed especially for students approaching the subject for the first time but may well be found stimulating by practitioners. No easy formulae are offered. What conservators, have to nurture, the author insists, is an inquiring and self-critical frame of mind enabling them to proceed from comprehensive knowledge of the buildings for the time being in their care, via logical argument, to defensible, if not inevitable, solutions.

London 1: The City of London


Simon Bradley - 1997
    This guide unlocks the city's treasures and investigates its growth.

Civic Realism


Peter G. Rowe - 1997
    In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the shape and appearance of civic places, and at the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. The book is as much about the making and reshaping of civic places as it is about urban architecture per se. According to Rowe, the best civic place-making occurs across the divide between the state and civil society. By contrast, the alternatives are not very attractive. On the one side are state-sponsored edifices and places of authoritarian nature. On the other are the exclusive enclaves of corporate-dominated urban and suburban environments.

Contemporary Japanese Architects: Vol. 2


Philip Jodidio - 1997
    

In the Somerset Hills: The Landed Gentry


William A. Schleicher - 1997
    Much of this money and power was concentrated in New York City, which quickly became crowded and unsuitable for the building of large estates. Many wealthy businessmen began to look eagerly toward the pastoral beauty of New Jersey as a site for their luxurious homes. Modeling itself on the English aristocracy, this uniquely American plutocracy sought to establish country seats, requiring acreage on a grand scale but in close proximity to New York City. Men such as George Seney, president of the Metropolitan Bank of New York, began purchasing property in Somerset County in the early 1870s, and soon many others were purchasing land in the county from the local farmers. This fascinating new book introduces us to the landed gentry of the Somerset Hills, with over 200 images bringing to life these colorful families and their magnificent estates. We meet the great families themselves, from the Seneys, Drydens, Stevenses, Pfizers, and Roeblings, to the Forbes, as well as such famous individuals as Jackie Kennedy and King Hassan II of Morocco. We are shown around the great estates, and see the stone masons, wood carvers, and other artisans and tradesmen who created them.

Architecturally Speaking


Eugene Raskin - 1997
    Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Tuscany Past and Present


Costanza Poli - 1997
    It is the region most celebrated by artists and poets, the source of the Italian language, and the birthplace of the Renaissance. Cultivated for millennia, the Tuscan landscape achieves a blend of nature and urbanity that is truly unique. Seen from a distance, the hill towns of San Gimignano, Montalcino, or Volterra appear to be Renaissance paintings somehow come to life. Tuscany's major cities are also startlingly well-preserved, and in Siena, Pisa, Lucca, and Florence, a visitor can raise her eyes above street level and imagine herself in the Quattrocento.The extraordinary images compiled in this volume describe Tuscany's great works of art and her breathtaking harmonies of nature—the sea and the mountains, the hills and hill towns, the olive and cypress tress—that appear illusory at times such is their remarkable beauty. The accompanying essay on the history, art, and folklore of the region brings a touch of reality to the magic, and provides a portrait of a living land in which time has not stood still, but one in which the past has always been treated with respect and love.Costanza Poli was born in Padova in 1958. She received a degree in Art History and for some time she has contributed to various periodicals, on tourism and psychology. She has also translated fiction and non-fiction works from English into Italian for some of the leading Italian publishers.

Wooden Houses: From Log Cabins to Beach Houses


Judith H. Miller - 1997
    Wooden houses range from Midwestern prairie clapboard houses with wraparound porches to wood-framed barns converted into airy living spaces. Wood has always played a part in consturction, architecture, and interior decoration and has long been valued for its practical benefits. Its insulating qualities, for example,made it an obvious choice for Scandinavian homes, and so the familiar log houses came into existence. But the vast decorative potential of wood has ensured its continued use, as evidenced by 19th-century houses with elaborately carved gables and bargeboards. Indoors, wood surrounds us in many ways. Structural elements such as oak-beamed and vaulted ceilings become features in their own right. Wood can also be used as further embellishement in the form of beautiful paneling or carved and turned banisters and staircases, and in original furniture designs. Whether it is left in its natural state to show the variety of grains and depths of colours, or used as a canvas for paint techniques, wood is a beautiful resource. *A celebration of the natural beauty of wood in decoration, interiors, and architecture. *Includes an introduction to the main architchtural styles

Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture


Judith Paine McBrien - 1997
    Over100 highlights of downtown Chicago are covered, from Michigan Avenue tothe riverfront to the Loop, with accompanying maps, a glossary ofarchitectural terms, and an index of architects and buildings.

Great Lodges of the West


Christine Barnes - 1997
    There are hundreds of lodges, inns, and hotels in the U.S. and Canada, but only a handful of historic Great Lodges. Through stunning color photographs, historical pictures, and evocative text, learn the stories of these architectural treasures and the men and women who built them. Partial proceeds from sales of the books go to the rehabilitation of these magnificent buildings.