Search Results: Architecture / Criticism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2012. 106 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. GROUND UP Journal issue 01 was edited, designed and produced by graduate students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000. 468 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profiles 100 international architects. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Preface; Critics' biographies; 100 architects; 10 essays; 100 references; 10 readings; Architects' biographies; Index; Photographic credits. . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Cloth, xii, 290 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Creating the North American Landscape Ser. Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist, landscape gardener, and prolific writer on architecture who, more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the United States in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Through his books and the pages of the Horticulturist, Downing preached a gospel of taste that promoted the modern or natural style of landscape design over the formal and geometric arrangements that were the hallmark of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century gardens. In this compelling biography, illustrated with more than 100 drawings, plans, and photographs, David Schuyler explores the origins… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989. Cloth, 143 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Text block lightly bumped/top edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Features: Emilio Ambasz, Edward Larrabee Barnes, John Burgee, Patricia Conwway, Raul de Armas, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, Peter Eisenman, Frank O. Gehry, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, Helmut Jahn, Philiip Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Meier, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, John C. Portman, Der Scutt, Robert A. M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman, Robert Venturi, James Wines, and others.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2002. Cloth, 330 pages, illustrations (some colour); 35 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A lavish monograph on the American architect who helped to codify the International Style in architecture and, later, post-modernism. "With a foreword by Johnson himself, an essay by his biographer Hilary Lewis, and nearly 400 color and black-and-white photographs accompanied by detailed building descriptions presented in chronological order, this is the book on Philip Johnson's architecture. The photographs were taken by Richard Payne, one of Johnson's personal photographers, who set out to document all extant buildings designed by this most celebrated visionary. Johnson has produced a life's work full of surprises and groundbreaking ideas that have shaped the way we live, work, and play, from the sculpture garden at New York's Museum of… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. xiii, 388 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. "A philosophical and chronological history of architecture examines natural and man-made structures from ancient Greece to present-day Manhattan." - Publisher. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, 1996. xii, 308 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Corners lightly bumped. Small sticker shadow/title page. First Edition, First Printing. Fine DJ. "We admire a building or a group of buildings because they express, however subtly, certain images and ideas we have about ourselves. In this riveting study, Craig Whitaker reinterprets the American architectural landscape as the manifest vision of our collective conscience. Asserting that the built environment is shaped largely by cultural values, Whitaker dissects American architecture by revealing its archetypes and analyzing their origins in the national psyche. The result is a superbly evocative essay on how Americans think and live, and how these spheres are combined in our architecture. On a grand scale, Whitaker examines the ways in which our architectural eclecticism is rooted in the democratic notion of individual liberty upon which this nation was founded. From New York to St. Louis… Read More

Austin and New York: Center for the Study of American Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin; Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, 1985. 136 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Center: A Journal for Architecture in America, Volume 1. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Sunned wraps. Inaugural issue. CONTENTS: The hut, the temple and the tower: toward an American urbanism, by Lawrence Speck; The vernacular city, by J. B. Jackson; Visions of the future based on lessons from the past, by Denise Scott Brown; The land, the city, the human spirit: building the emerging American landscape, a review, by Larry Paul Fuller; Symbols of the city; Mixed use complexes; Urban public spaces; Multi-family housing; Single family housing; Shopping centers; Buildings in a context.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ix, 208 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. "This text is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how that housing fits comfortably into our communities. It is a non-technical analysis for everyone interested in the creation of affordable housing. / Sam Davis is Professor and Chair of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and editor of The Form of Housing (1977). He is Principal of Davis and Joyce Architects and has won numerous design awards and housing competitions." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Random House, 1986. xix, 345 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Revised and updated collection of articles originally published in the New York Times. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Cautionary Tales of the Building Art. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Taschen, 2006. 575 pages, illustrations (some colour); 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Brings together the important essays about architecture written since the Renaissance, illustrated and organized chronologically by country. This book gathers the treatises by architecture's greatest masters from Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas, each accompanied by an essay discussing its historical context and significance." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1996. 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Reprint 2000. Tight, clean copy. "Since the Modern Movement began to be challenged in the late 1960s, architecture has followed a number of widely divergent paths. In this thoughtful and eloquent book, Diane Ghirardo examines the architectural world of the last quarter-century and its theories in the crucial context of social and political issues. Within a survey of a broad range of buildings, she focuses on specific 'megaprojects' as paradigms for discussion. In the realm of public space, she argues, The key questions are raised by the Disney empire and its amusement parks; in domestic space, by the IBA in Berlin, with projects ranging from new structures to rehabilitation and residents' self-build. When it comes to reconfiguring the urban sphere, the megaproject is London's Docklands, the most ambitious and politically sensitive development in postwar Britain. Her text ranges… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. xiii, 388 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. Another copy available. "A philosophical and chronological history of architecture examines natural and man-made structures from ancient Greece to present-day Manhattan." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: American Craft Museum, 1988. 52 pages; 28 cm. Exhibition held at the American Craft Museum, New York, NY. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Includes commentary, essays and an exhibition checklist.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, 1996. xii, 308 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "We admire a building or a group of buildings because they express, however subtly, certain images and ideas we have about ourselves. In this riveting study, Craig Whitaker reinterprets the American architectural landscape as the manifest vision of our collective conscience. Asserting that the built environment is shaped largely by cultural values, Whitaker dissects American architecture by revealing its archetypes and analyzing their origins in the national psyche. The result is a superbly evocative essay on how Americans think and live, and how these spheres are combined in our architecture. On a grand scale, Whitaker examines the ways in which our architectural eclecticism is rooted in the democratic notion of individual liberty upon which this nation was founded. From New York… Read More

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. xv, 255 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. "Over the last several decades, feminists and architects have independently developed critiques of modern Western assumptions and cultural practices. Architecture and Feminism addresses the intersection of these two seemingly disparate fields through a lively and diverse collection of essays and projects, including interdisciplinary investigations of literature, social history, home economics, and art history. Articles examine such varied topics as Niki de Saint-Phalles exuberant building-sized female sculpture Hon, the aesthetics and politics of the Playboy bachelor pad, Edith Wharton's ideas on domestic architecture, and the Legend of Master Manole, a disquieting Eastern European folktale that prescribes the ritual entombment of women in the walls of buildings, while visual projects take well-known structures by Philip Johnson and Louis Sullivan as points of departure… Read More

Chicago: American Library Association, 1926. 34 pages; 18 cm. Reading with a Purpose Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, expected browning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. Collectible.

London and New York: Verso, 2011. Cloth, xiii, 302 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips mildly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid and Herzog and de Meuron draw on art to reanimate design, architecture has inspired fundamental transformations in painting, sculpture and film, which are also explored here. The book includes an extensive conversation with Richard Serra. At the same time Foster points to a 'global style' of architecture, as practiced by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, that is analogous to the 'international style' of Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies--a global style that, more than any art, conveys the look of modernity today, both its dreams and its delusions. In these ways Foster demonstrates that 'the… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company; Architectural Record Books, 1978. Cloth, 200 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Michael Franklin Ross, with a personalized inscription to a notable American author. Price-clipped dust jacket, with a closed tear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. 340 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much as we mold it, understanding architecture helps us to understand our lives and our world. In this book, ten buildings from across the globe tell stories of architecture from the beginning of civilization to the present day. From the remains of the Tower of Babel to the Summer Palace in Beijing, built and destroyed by Europeans, to the Ford car plant where the production line was born, Tom Wilkinson unpicks these… Read More