Search Results: Architecture from Modern First Editions Boston

Published by Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA, 1965. Hardcover. Fine. Fine or better copy without dust jacked as issued. Flawless copy except for previous owner's plate and name written in. Includes three attached fold-able maps, one loose map and errata slip. 162 pages with Bibliography and List of Illustrations; photos, illustrations, maps. Navy endpapers. Heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. A 10 year city Plan for the City of Boston and the Regional Core.

Rizzoli, 1986. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in As New dustwrapper. First US edition. Appears unread copy: pages, covers and jacket are clean, crisp and unmarked. 220 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w and color. Size: 28.8cm x 22.3cm. Alexandr Vesnis (1883-1959) was a major figure in Russian Constructivist movement; architect, theater designer, painter and graphic artist.

Viking, 1987. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As new copy in like dustwrapper.Assumed First edition. Appears unread, pages, jacket and covers are crisp and unmarked. 256 pages including, Bibliography, Sources and Index. Illustrated in color. Note that this is heavy or oversized book, for priority or international shipping please contact me to make special arrangement. Surveys the regional styles of American architecture and interior design and discusses contemporary versions

Rizzoli, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine or better copy in like dust jacket. First printing with full number line. Pages, covers and jacket are crisp, intact and unmarked except for lightly bumped bottom of the spine. 239 pages with pages with Notes, Bibliography, Glossary and List of Synangogues. Profusely illustrated in color photographs A study of American synagogues, with an emphasis on the architecture. Note that this is a heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Please contact me prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping.

Touring editore, 2002. Soft cover. As New. As New soft cover copy. Flawless, practically brand new. 184 pages illustrated in color and B/W drawings and photos. Features Palladio's villas with separate section for each. Perfect traveling companion for visitor to these fabulous buildings. Text in Italian, English and German

The MIT Press, 1985. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Soft cover. As New. As New copy of stated first US edition, 3rd printing. Flawless except for previous owner's name at half-title page. 596 pages with Notes, List of Illustrations and Index. 465 B/W illustrations, photos, plans. some 300 arcades in Europe and America are cataloged. A classic work of architectural scholarship.

Publshed By the Author, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good or better copy of 1905 edition. No jacket as issued. Fourteenth Edition enlarged. Pages and covers are crisp intact and unmarked except for: pencil inscription (erasable) and two stains to front end paper. 243 pages, illustrated in B/W drawings.

U.S.A.: Van Nostrand and Reinhold, 1990. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in As New, unclipped dustwrapper. Flat signed by Thomas W. Schaller on his bussines card adhered to the front page. First printing indicated by full number line. Unread, completely clean copy. This seems to be the only signed copy across different platforms. Numerous watercolor illustrations in color and b/w. 234 pages. Slim 4to, blue boards Summary: This is a work on architectural illustration. Watercolour has increased in popularity as a vehicle for architectural presentation, despite the advances in computer technology, due to its painterly qualities and its ability to express subtlety and drama. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

TASCHEN, 2009. 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. As New. As New copy; completely crisp, intact and unmarked. 400 pages. Yes is More is the easily accessible but unremittingly radical manifesto of Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG. Unlike a typical architectural monograph, this book uses the comic book format to express its groundbreaking agenda for contemporary architecture.

Greater Portland Landmarks, 1999. Hardcover. As New/Fine. As New copy in like, price clipped dust jacket. 225 pages with Plans, maps and photos.Note that 5 separate folding maps are missing. Heavy and/or oversized book, which CANNOT be EXPEDITE shipped for the quoted shipping price. Contact us prior to purchasing if you require EXPEDITE US or any type of INTERNATIONAL shipping. Fascinating history of how over the years, part advocates in Portland Maine overcame formidable obstacles and developed one of the country's finest park systems in a medium-size city.

Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973. Soft cover. New. Brand New copy. 80 Pages with line drawings. Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary French town of Chutreaux during the thirteenth century. Winner of 1978 Caldecott Honor.

Rizzoli, 1980. Soft cover. Fine. Near fine copy of Rizzoli's softcover from 1980. Pages and covers are crisp, intact and unmarked except for water stain at bottom of pages. 189 pages illustrated in B/W drawings. Slightly abridged reprint of The International Competition for a new Administrative Building for the Chicago Tribune from 1922. Designs submitted for international architectural competition.

Newsweek, NY,, 1971. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in As New dustwrapper. First edition. Exceptional, unread copy with publisher's full brown cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Bright red dust jacket protected in clear Mylar cover. Wonders of Man Series. History of the Roman Colosseum in text and color photographs.

Clarkson Potter, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. As New copy in like dust jacket. Flawless in practically brand new condition. First printing with full number line. 288 pages Notes, Bibliography and Index. Illustrated in B/W photos and drawings. Examines the progression of American household comfort and convenience, weaving technology, science, and architecture together with political, social and commercial history and biography.

Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, 1984. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. As New. As new copy of paperback edition. Flawless copy in near brand new condition. 202 pages profusely illustrated in b/w and color drawings. Text in Germand except for Tafuris's essay in Engish. With contribution from: Friedrich Achleitner (Zu O.W.`s Dialektik des Schönen); Otto A. Graf (Der Pfeil der Zuunft - Umriß eines Desideratums); Vittoria A. Lampugnani (Anmerkungen zu O.W.); A. Moravanszky (Byzantinismus in der Baukunst O.W.`s als Motiv seiner Wirkung östlich von Wien); Wolfgang Pehnt (Verwerfungen im Untergrund); Manfred Sack (Der gesunde Beruf, die späte Abkehr, die mutige Haltung des Architekten O.W.); Jan Tabor (O.W. u. die verwandten Geister); Manfredo Tafuri (Am Steinhof - Centrality and "surface" in O.W.`s architecture);

Electa/Musei Civici Veneziani, 2004. Soft cover. As New. Fine copy. 103 pages with essential bibliography.120 illustrations in color. Contents: 1). The city and the palace. 2). The history of the Doge's palace. 3). Layout and itineraries. 4). The Museo dell'Opera. 5). The courtyard. 6). The loggias and the Scala d'Oro. 7). The Doge. 8). The doges. 9). The Doge's apartments. 10). The chambers of government. 11). Venice and the sea. 12). The armoury. 13). The Maggior Consiglio. 14). The Venetian Constitution. 15). The secret itinerary. 16). Casanova in the cells of the Piombi

Rizzoli International Publications, 1994. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As New or better copy in like dustwrapper. First edition. Flawless except for previous owner name in pencil inside front cover. Heavily illustrated in color and B/W on glossy paper featuring drawings and photos of finished projects. Note that this is oversized/heavy book, for priority or international shipping please contact me to make special arrangement. The eminent architect Edward Larrabee Barnes is a member of the generation of influential modernists that emerged in America after World War II. After studying architecture at Harvard University under Bauhaus masters Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, Barnes set up his own practice in New York in 1949. Since then, over the course of a long and varied career, he has worked in a modern vocabulary shaped by his own approach to geometry, composition, and siting.

Boston: Opppositions Books for MIT Press, 1985. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. As New. As new copy of first paperback printing, Completely clean copy without any markups. 214 pages with b/w illustrations. Winner of the 1985 Architectural Critics Award for the best book published on architectural criticism over the past three years. These essays (1962-1979) are divided into 4 themes: modern architecture & the symbolic dimension; the type and its transformations; architecture & the city; history & the architectural sign. 1st Printing 1st Printing 1st Printing

Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1980. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine or better copy in Very Good, price clipped dust jacket. Stated Fourth printing, May 1980. Pages and covers are crisp intact and unmarked. Jacket has 4-5 tears, longest being 3/4 of an inch. 378 pages with 63 figure illustrations plus 17 color plates featuring works by Klimt and Kokoschka. Publisher's decorative charcoal top pages, rough cut endpages. Seven interlinked essays on Habsburg Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focus on the intersection of politics and culture and the achievements of the city's political geniuses

State Street Trust Company, Boston, 1912. Soft cover. As New. Remarkably preserved copy in As new condition. Square, tight and unmarked. 44 pages with 40 b/w photos of individual houses. Small pamphlet, 9 x 6 inches. Compiled, arranged and printed under the direction of the Walton Advertising and Printing Company, Boston, Massachusetts