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Washington DC: Department of Housing and Urban Development. Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 68 pages; Oblong, illustrated wrappers. Double page centerfold with multiple colour images of the winning Design Projects; plus b&w illustrations throughout. Introduction about the awards process and members of the jury. Winning Urban Design Concepts are described and pictured in detail (models and architectural diagrams)including: Detroit 1990, Jonathan New Town, Metro Center 1985, Reading Downtown East, Skyline Urban Renewal, and Yerba Buena Center. Winning Project Designs also are described and pictured in detail: Acorn Housing, Banneker Homes, Christopher Columbus School, Crown College Residence Halls, Diamond Heights Housing, Dwight Cooperative Townhouses, Medgar Evers Memorial Pool, Homestead Valley, Housing for the Elderly, Lower Grassy-Trace Branch Community Center, Marinview, Nine-G Cooperative, Northridge House, Dan Ryan Rapid Transit Station, Santa Venetia Oaks, 727 Front… Read More

Zürich & Lausanne: ETH Zürich. Very Good+. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 175 pages; Publisher's dark grey wrappers, with printing and a design in white. Scarce significant exhibition catalogue on the great Italian born modernist master Alberto Sartoris [1901-1998] -- jointly prepared by ; Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich & Ecole Polytechnique Lausanne (where Sartoris left his archive). Texts (in German and French) by E. Bianchi,Th. Bogaet J. Gubler. Préface by B. Reichlin. Limited to 1000 copies. OCLC Number: 757289000 or 74481052. Ausstellungskatalog -- Text in Deutsch und Französisch (Catalogue biliingue Français- Allemand). Errata leaf laid in. .

New York: Rizzoli. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 299 pages; Former owner's initials embossed on title page, otherwise clean and tight in nice fresh dustjacket. OCLC: 24910196 More than 300 full colour photographs. From the text: "In addition to the rich and eclectic architectural heritage of the city, Barcelona is noted for a town-planning policy that has surprised people the world over. Its high standard of design and large number of projects encompass not only buildings but parks, squares, and especially sculpture on which architects and artists have worked in close collaboration. ... For the first time these sculptures and monuments including large-scale works by Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Eduardo Chillida, Richard Senna, Ellsworth Kelly and over thirty other prominent twentieth-century artists have been photographed and examined in the context of the urban landscape." ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual… Read More

Washington: Smithsonian Institution. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean and tight in original binding in near fine dustjacket. A century ago, the popularity of early Washington landmarks like Stoneleigh Court and the controversial Cairo (which, at a soaring twelve stories, shocked District officials into enacting the city's height limit) made it clear that apartment living was here to stay. By the 1920s, Beaux Art and Art Deco palaces offered residents all the luxuries of a first-class hotel: barbershops, ballrooms, rooftop terraces, and indoor pools. Soon other innovations in apartment living -- the garden complex, the cooperative, and the mixed-use building -- put Washington at the forefront of urban planning. Today the resurgence of the historic heart of the nation's capital has created an apartment boom rivaled only by that of the 1920s. Through residents' personal recollections, original floor plans, and more than 690… Read More

Paris: UNESCO. Very Good. 1977. Paperback. 16 pages; Forty kilometres from Yogyakarta in Central Java is a huge stone complex 1100 years old - this is Borobudur -- for the Buddhist, a place of pilgrimage; for the architect, a brilliant harmonization of form with significance; for the art historian, an outstanding portrayal in stone of the iconography of Mahayana Buddhism; for anyone, a precious legacy from the past, a symbol of human ingenuity, skill, perseverance and faith. This guide offers a brief history of the site, a discussion of the efforts to restore and preserve it and many photographs. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Washington: U. S. Commission of Fine Arts. Very Good+. 1992. Original Pictorial Wrappers. viii, 96 pages; hundreds of B&W photos and sketches of the bridges in DC that span the Potomac and other areas, Rock Creek Park, Anacostia, Calvert St., M Street, etc .

London: Country Life Ltd. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [3], 299, [1] pages; Contents clean and secure in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering at front board and spine; fading at spine; cloth rubbed at lower corenera and chipped at spine ends. Inscriptions on ffep: "For Uncle Bob & Aunt Mammie / fondest love / from / Elizabeth / May 1937", and below that "Aug 4 / Liela McKnight / from / Anna [?] Hill / Xmas 1950" A nice example of this massive and important history of this iconic palace. Illustrated throughout with three colour plates, and more than three hundred and fifty monochrome illustrations printed on 100 double-sided leaves. With introductory chapters on the building and site by Christopher Hussey. The house was originally intended as a private retreat, in particular for Queen Charlotte, and was known as The Queen's House; fourteen of their fifteen children were born there. St. James's Palace remained the… Read More

München - Munich: Georg Müller und Eugen Rentsch. Very Good. 1913. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. viii, 120 pages; Publisher's full blue linen cloth, title lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, along with a publisher's device. Minor wear, light brown endpapers (front with a minor repair). Neat ownershipp signature dated 1915 at the head of the front free endpaper, no other marks. Minor rubbing to the binding. 64 pages of halftone plates at the rear, figures throughout the text. Handsomely printed and produced -- text in German throughout. (There was also a less expensive edition issued in fragile boards). The author of this volume -- Hans-Hasso Freiherr von Ludolf Martin Veltheim Ostrau -- was born into a Saxon noble family in 1885. His father Franz was laird of Ostrau castle in Saxony-Arnhalt. Hans Hasso studied architecture, history and philosophy in Munich and later at the University of Bern, where the present volume on the Burgundian small… Read More

Udine: Magnus Edizioni. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dustjacket and slipcase as pictured. Cresti is a professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Florence. This is an incredibly beautiful book on Tuscan architecture of many eras. The text is in the original Italian, the reproductions and photographs are stunning. A very heavy large book - domestic sales only. Book is large and heavy and will require extra postage.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Chicago: A. Warner & Co.. Very Good. 1889. Print. 1 pages; A steel engraving of the Court House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania extracted from Cushing's History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Including its Early Settlement... also Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men. Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1889. The plate measures 10" by 7" with the centered engraving 6.5" v 5.3"; protective tissue guard in place. Engraved by James R. Rice & Sons. .

London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. Good. 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 480 pages; Contents clean and secure in contemporary binding of brown half leather over green cloth. Hinges very tender, leather worn at extremeties, large chip at base of spine (1"). Frontispiece engraving and 6 additional full page engraved plates with linen backing, many engravings (some full-page), plus decorated initial letters at beginning of each chapter. All plates and illustrations listed in the index are present, a couple have some spots of foxing, including the manuscript "Facsimile of Queen Elizabeth's Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury" and "Allegorical Letter, Arms of Linlithgow." Former owner's signature in ink on ffep -- Peter Hagner; a couple old pencil notes on rear endpaper. During her brief reign, Mary found comfort in a number of Scottish castles and palaces, some even as a prisoner. Linlithgow Palace. Blackness Castle. Stirling Castle. Palace of… Read More

Wien: Akademie der bildenden Künste. Very Good+. 1982. First Edition. Paperback. 139 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial card wrappers (w/ French flaps). Well illustrated (c. 165 b&w illustrations) catalogue raissonne with essays by Friedrich Achleitner, Wilhelm Holzbauer and Herbert Muck. OCLC 883962244 Clemens Holzmeister (1886 – 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. Holzmeister became the Head of the Architecture Department of Austria's Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. In 1926 he oversaw the remodelling of the Festival Theatre in Salzburg, then spent several years erecting government buildings in Ankara, Turkey. In 1931 Holzmeister became the Director of the Austrian Academy of Fine Arts. Besides building projects in Austria, Germany and Turkey, he remained the Director of the Academy until being removed from… Read More

Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. (x), 280, plates pages; Contents clean and secure in original tan cloth binding in edgeworn dustjacket. Illustrated throughout, including folding plans of the buildings at end of text. Large heavy book may acquire increased shipping. Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "one of the most spectacular surviving domestic buildings of late Medieval England", along with Haddon Hall and Wingfield Manor. The medieval buildings are grouped around a huge courtyard; the largest built for a private residence before the 16th Century, and the Great Hall itself is the finest of its date in England. The west range of the courtyard is regarded nationally as one… Read More

Dusseldorf: Edition Marzona. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Softcover. Autograph; 46 pages; Clean and tight in original binding in very nice dustjacket. OCLC: 16703185 Amazing photographs combining people & objects, vaguely reminiscent of Hans Bellmer. Pidder Auberger (1946 - 2012) was a German visual artist and photographer who studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy (1970-1975). He worked as a freelance artist and lived in Dusseldorf and in the Westerwald. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions. ; Signed by Photographer; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Milano: Editorale Domus. Very Good. 1956. First Edition. Original Pictorial Wrappers. vi, 62 pages; Milano: Very Good. 1956. First Edition. Febbraio 1956; No. 316; vi, 62 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers; wrappers chipped at spine ends. This important Italian journal is a multidisciplinary review of art, architecture and interior design. Profusely illustrated, primarily in b&w, but some colour illustrations. Text in Italian. Terrific mid-century modern advertisement. Articles include: Discorso di Walter Gropius; Nella Lapponia del Sud, Borgafjall Hotel; Il Premio Nazionale Olivetti; Alvin Lustig; Mobili di Finn Juhl; Una Libreria inglese di serie; A Porto d'Ischia; etc. . ; Art and Art History, Italian Language and Literature, Most Recent Listing .

Milano: Editorale Domus. Very Good. 1949. First Edition. Original Pictorial Wrappers. 50 pages; Milano: Very Good. 1949. First Edition. Vol 2, 1949; No. 233; xi, 50 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers; wrappers chipped at spine ends, short closed tear at foredge of front wrapper. This important Italian journal is a multidisciplinary review of art, architecture and interior design. Profusely illustrated, primarily in b&w, but some colour illustrations. Text in Italian. Terrific mid-century modern advertisement. Articles include: Neutra a Venezia; Noi Pietra, essi Leguo; Mobili en Serie e non in Serie; Una Mostra e uno Stand a Torino; Maurice Raynalsu Campigli; Venezia Minori; La Cucina e il Soggiorno; Paraventi; Crisi dell'arquitettura Europea; Vetrina Libraria; etc. . ; Art and Art History, Italian Language and Literature, Most Recent Listing .

London: Paxton's Magazine. Very Good. 1838. Lithograph. from Paxton's Magazine of Botany; 1 pages; A charming lithograph with original hand-coloring of garden fountain with a dolphin-like sea creature, from Volume 5 of Paxton's Magazine of Botany. Image measures about 4 1/2" x 7" (14" x 11" matted). Matted in white stock with clear mylar. Description in Paxton's: "The annexed plate is an isometrical view of a highly classical fountain, ornamented with figures of dolphins, large shell-rocks, and a basin, with sculptured rim, suitable for the centre of a parterre, or for the front court of a public or private building." .

Washington: National Capital Planning Commission. Near Fine. 1970. Paperback. 116 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. With Introduction, b/w photographs, measured drawings, maps, two appendices, and Bibliography. An excellent overview of downtown structures (divided in four sections titled as "Category I Landmarks," "Category II Landmarks," "Category III Landmarks," and "Statues") which received landmark status after the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act. Reviewed buildings include Ford's Theatre, Petersen House, Old City Hall, Pension Building, Franklin School, Old Adas Israel Synagogue, Tariff Commission Building-Old Post Office, Rhodes' Tavern, Willard Hotel, Old Evening Star Building, Old Ebbitt Grill, Woodward & Lothrop (department store main building), St. Patrick's Church, Mary Surratt House, etc. .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 276 pages; Clean and tight in original blue binding in bright fresh dustjacket. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Prolific illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The Shaping of an American Architect; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907-11; Homecoming: Buchman & Kahn, The Early Years, 1917-1921; Building Boom: Garment District Developers and Design, 1921-25; Toward an American Modernism, 1925-28; Skyward: The Major Works, 1928-31; The 1930s: New Challenges and Opportunities; Kahn and Jacobs, 1940-1950; and From Midtown to Wall Street, 1950-1965. Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972), preeminent 20th century architect of commercial buildings, was one of the most prolific architects in New York City. While his career spanned nearly half a century, his most widely known work is associated with the 1920s buiding boom in New York City, where three dozen of his buildings still exist. Kahn was in the last wave of… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. xxvi, 257, (170) pages; Contents clean and secure in original cream cloth binding with lettering in red in edgeworn dustjacket with chipping at extremities. Profusely illustrated. From the dustjacket: "In this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site planning, the author adopts a hitherto undeveloped view of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully treats the temples as physical embodiments of the gods in landscapes which had for the greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations. He explores the meanings inherent in the calculated interaction between the man-made sculptural forces and the natural landscape, and relates this to our understanding of Greek culture from the pre-Greek Aegean to the Hellenistic period." .