Category: Architecture

International Architecture Yearbook, [no. 1]

Price: $28.00

Publisher: N.Y., McGraw-Hill : 1996

Seller ID: 011569

ISBN-13: 9780070318113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

432p. A fine copy, with dull spine lettering, in a fine d.j.
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Haddonfield Historic Homes: Success Through Historic Preservation

By: Aiken, Joan L.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Newtown Square, PA, Harrowood Books : 1991

Seller ID: 030447

ISBN-13: 9780915180332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

207pp. Green Cloth. gilt lettering. Color photos of 60 historic buildings of the Haddonfield historic district, Two maps of the historic district from 1700 and another from the present. Light wear to the extremities, otherwise a fine copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light edgewar. As a result of the Historic District Ordinance of 1971, much of Haddonfields historic hiomes have been preserved. The town was an important meeting place in the American Revolution, and is a site for significant paleontology.
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Wicked The Musical: A Pop-Up Compendium of Splendiferous Delight and Thrillifying Intrigue

By: Attenberg, Jami and Moerbeck, Kees

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Melcher Media : 2009

Seller ID: 030285

ISBN-13: 1397815959105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Like new. This book features the most arresting and memorable moments from the hit Broadway musical in moveable paper tableaux. From Glinda's dramatical entrance among the Ozians in her bubble machine to Elphaba's gravity-defying maiden flight, each spread puts you in the center of the action. Plus, discover secret artifacts (and artifictions) that you won't find anywhere else: the letters Galinda and Elphaba wrote to their parents, a map of the Emerald City, the Shiz University student newspaper, and a miniature Grimmerie complete with spells.
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Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound

By: Beranek, Leo

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Woodbury, N.Y., Published for the Acoustical Society of America Through the American Institute of Physics : 1996

Seller ID: 016792

ISBN-13: 9781563965302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

viii, 643p. A near fine copy, in a fine d.j.
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Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin: Outside: From Street Photography to Filmmaking (Bilingual Edition)

By: Comic, Stefan

Price: $44.00

Publisher: Editions Carlotta Films : 2015

Seller ID: 025711

ISBN-13: 9791093798004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

212pgs. bilinqual edition (English and French). With their 1953 film Little Fugitive, directors Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin originated a style that revolutionized cinema, presaging the French New Wave and independent American film. This book presents the photographic and cinematographic journey of the iconic figures.
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Updating Classic American Bungalows: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Building New

By: Connolly, M. Caren and Louis Wassermann

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Newtown, Connecticut, Taunton Press : 2002

Seller ID: 017974

ISBN-13: 9781561584352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

202p.
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Developments in Tall Buildings, 1983

By: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Stroudsburg, Pa, Hutchinson Ross Pub Co : 1983

Seller ID: 012704

ISBN-13: 9780879330484

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xxi, 880p. A very good copy, the light covers of which are slightly soiled and the spine ends are slightly bumped, no d.j.
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Portraits of American Architecture: Monuments to a Romantic Mood, 1830-1900

By: Devlin, Harry

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Boston, MA, David R. Godine, Publisher : 1994

Seller ID: 030489

ISBN-13: 9780879237936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

191pp. Clay cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Color frontispiece. Author signature and inscription on the title page. Laid in is a postcard with a 15 cent stamp of the Rittenhouse paper mill, with a blue ink signature by Harry Devlin beneath it, and an invitation to see the Harry Devlin A Retrospective at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ.. There is toning to the extremities, othewise a fine, clean copy. The unclipped pictorial jacket is bright with one corner rubbed. This book shows 70 examples and descriptions of Victorian architecture along the Eastern Seaboard, including octagonal bar...
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Great Houses of the Hudson River

By: Dwyer, Michael Middleton

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston & New York, Bullfinch Press/Little Brown : 2001

Seller ID: 033091

ISBN-13: 9780821227671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

208pp. Glossy blue pictorial boards. Map endpapers.250 four color illustrations. the book itself is as new. The Unlcipped color pictorial jacket is sumptuous, only a tiny ding on the edge, otherwise like new in mylar sleeve.. "The great estates of the Hudson River Valley offer some of the finest examples of grand-scale nineteenth-century American architecture and landscape design. The houses, built by the leading architects of the day, were country retreats for America's most illustrious families. With glorious river views, and grounds that sprawl over hundreds of acres, most of the estates ar...
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Arquiectura Lejanista: Del Mudejarismo a la Modernidad

By: Ezquerra de la Colina, Jose Luis

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Coedi, Mexico, : 2008

Seller ID: 021925

ISBN-13: 0109685152063

Binding: Paper-covered Boards

232p. A fine copy, in a fine d.j.
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Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Scenario

By: Fuller, Buckminster; Robert Snyder

Price: $145.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : 1980

Seller ID: 030159

ISBN-13: 9780312106782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

218 pages. Black boards with silver lettering on the spine. Unclipped pictoral jacket with red lettering has a few light scratches and minor wear to the extremities. Slight toning to the endpapers. Tight binding, and clean, straight textblock. Signed by Fuller on the front free endpaper and dated 3/28/83.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

By: Jacobs, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library : 1993

Seller ID: 030438

ISBN-13: 9780679600473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

598pp. Gray cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Unread copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has superficial wear. "Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable." Jane Jacobs was one of the leaders who opposed and stopped the building of the Lower Manhattan Expressway...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

By: Jacobs, Jane

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library : 1993

Seller ID: 031367

ISBN-13: 9780679600473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

598pp.Black cloth, silver lettering on the spine. Unread copy. Stated First Modern Library Edition, September 1969. Random House remainder stamp on the bottom edge Price-clipped pictorial jacket has a 1/4" closed tear on the upper left edge of the rear panel, otherwise like new in mylar sleeve. "Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic ...
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Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley

By: Jakle, John A., and Others

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Athens, Univerrsity of Georgia Press : 1989

Seller ID: 011218

ISBN-13: 9780820310060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

238p. A near fine copy, in a near fine d.j.
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S,M,L,XL

By: Koolhaas, Rem and Bruce Mau

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Monacelli Press : 1998

Seller ID: 031032

ISBN-13: 9781885254863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

1,344pp. silver boards, black and blue lettering. Creased spine, some corner wear.Internally clean, unmarked.S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as...
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The New European Landscape

By: Lancaster, Michael

Price: $48.00

Publisher: Oxford, Butterworth Architecture : 1994

Seller ID: 018751

ISBN-13: 9780750615464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

xiii, 162p. A fine copy.
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Folding in Architecture: Architectural Design Profile 102

By: Lynn, Greg

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Architectural Design : 1993

Seller ID: 032030

ISBN-13: 9781854901767

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

95pp.Stiff Pictorial wraps. A touch of wear to the corner tips, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Illustrated throughout. "Architectural Curvilinearity?, Greg Lynn's keynote essay in AD Profile 102, Folding in Architecture, heralds the age of round shapes and smooth, intricate surfaces that flourished during the second half of the 1990s and that to this day are seen as the most visible expression of digital making in architecture. Lynn's theory of curvilinearity emerges from the internal and autonomous discourse of architectural theory itself. Lynn's essay highlights that Deconstructivism theori...
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Store Fronts and Facades. Volumes 1-5

By: Pegler, Martin M. (editor)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: N.Y., Retail Reporting Corporation

Seller ID: 015415

ISBN-13: 9780934590143

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

175, 191, 223, 235, 239p. Five volumes. A near fine set, 2 vols. are a bit dust-soiled on the top edges, in very good d.j.s., the tops of the spines show wear on three of the volumes
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New York 1900 Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915

By: Stern, Robert A. M., and Others

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli : 1992

Seller ID: 029890

ISBN-13: 9780847805112

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

502 pages. Black boards with gold lettering along the spine. The dust jacket is near fine. Only the bottom edge of the book shows minor wear. A clean, tight textblock full of photos, illustrations, and history.
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New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial

By: Stern, Robert A.M.; Fishman, David; Mellins, Thomas

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Monacelli Press : 1997

Seller ID: 029303

ISBN-13: 9781885254856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1,37pp. Black boards, Hundreds of black and white illustrations. Light bump to the front corner, otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a touch of shelf wear, otherwise fine in mylar sleeve. The post-World War II era witnessed New York's reign as the unofficial but undisputed economic and artistic capital of the world. By the mid-1970s, the city had experienced a profound reversal, and both its economy and its reputation were at a historic nadir. The architectural history of the period offered an exceptionally abundant and varied mix of building styles and types, from t...
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Category: Architecture