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Frederick Fisher Buildngs and Projects
by Marie-Claude Beaud
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0847818640
- ISBN 13
- 9780847818648
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Rizzoli, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy inscribed by the architect, in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Laid in are two Fisher exhibition announcement cards. 224 pp., profusely illustrated with Tim Street-Porter phots, project list, staff list, awards, exhibitions, bibliography and biography. Fisher has organized this first monograph of his work into three thematic sections, "Art Space," "Dwelling Space," and "Spiritual Space," each containing a short essay and descriptions of individual projects, illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings. Among the thirty works in this volume are Fisher's clean, light-filled structures for the L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, California; P.S.1, The Institute for Contemporary Art, in New York; houses in California, Idaho, and Pennsylvania, a Buddhist monastery in California; and experimental projects such as an Earthquake Bed and a solar crematory.
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- Bookseller
- modern-ISM
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013052
- Title
- Frederick Fisher Buildngs and Projects
- Author
- Marie-Claude Beaud
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0847818640
- ISBN 13
- 9780847818648
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Frederick Fisher
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About modern-ISM
On-line with emphasis on architecture, art and design. Classics also included.
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