Modern Architecture
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New York 1930 Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
by Gregory Gilmartin, Thomas Mellins Robert a M Stern
Modern Architecture Books & Ephemera
Architektur Der Gegenwart
by Tafuri, Manfredo and Francesco Dal Co
Stuttgart/Milan: Belser/Electa , 1977. This is an about very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. The jacket has some creasing and a few tiny chips to the corners. Very clean inside and out. Text in German. This is the German edition of Tafuri and Dal Co's classic standard work on the history of modern architecture. This survey starts in the 1890's and ends in the late 1960's. 673 black & white illustrations. Bibliography. 11 1/2" high X 10" wide,...
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$27.50
The Architecture of Steven Ehrlich
by Ehrlich, Steven
Costa Mesa, CA : Steven Ehrlich Architects/Orange Coast College Foundation , 1990. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and just lightly toned covers outside. The lower corner of the back cover and last few pages with a soft crease. Spine not creased. This copy has been SIGNED and inscribed by Ehrlich to a friend. Foreword by Leon Whiteson, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. Introduction by Edward R.Baker. Over 20 built works described and...
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Gustave Serrurier-Bovy L'Oeuvre d'une vie, architecte et décorateur liégeois 1858-1910.
by Watelet, Jacques-Gregoire
Alleur-Liege, Belgium : Editions du Perron, 2001. This is a fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Text in FRENCH. Illustrated mostly in black & white, some color plates. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 352 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.
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$145.00
Italian Architecture 1750-1914
by Meeks, Carroll
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. This is a fine hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. The jacket has a tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel, and a little rubbing to the edge of the spine, and is price-clipped, otherwise fine. Fine reference for the various theories of architecture from the mid 18th century through the Italian art nouveau. Bibliography. Appendices: Chronological list of publications 1700-1800; Visitors to Italy in the...
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$75.00
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects 1967-1992
by SORKIN, Michael, Mildred Schmertz, and Nicholas Polites
New York: Rizzoli, 1992. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with just light wear. SIGNED by Hugh Hardy, in black marker, on the half title-page. Not inscribed to anyone, just signed. Otherwise clean throughout. Preface by Michael Sorkin. Introduction and interview by Mildred F. Schmertz. Illustrated in color and black & white. Catalogue of Work. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 288 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be...
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Die Baukunst Der Neuesten Zeit.
by Platz, Gustav
Berlin: Propylaen-Verlag, 1927. This is a very good hardcover copy in the familiar green paper-covered boards with gilt device to the front cover, and black leather spine with red panel printed with gilt titles. Text in German. This is one of the best one volume surveys of European architecture at the beginning of the 20th century. The work of over 100 architects is surveyed and classified by building types and styles. Profusely illustrated with 25 tipped-in color plates mounted on stiff black paper, and...
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$250.00
Modern House
by John Welsh
FIRST paperback edition. The book has a crease on the front cover; non-authorial inscriptions of the half-title page. Bump at the head of the dust jacket spine. Otherwise FINE.
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$17.99
Architecture of the early XX. century / selection and commentary by Peter Haiko. Related Titles: Architektur des XX. Jahrhunderts
by Haiko, Peter
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket just a little worn at the top of the spine. Very clean inside and out. No marks anywhere. Text in English, French and German. This volume was compiled by Peter Haiko, from the early 20th century German architecture magazines published by Ernst Wasmuth in Berlin, which thoroughly documented the modern architecture of the period. Introduction by Haiko. Text + 216 black & white...
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$45.95
Lost Wright
by Carla Lind
FIRST EDITION in unclipped dust jacket. The book is FINE. The dust jacket is mildly sunned at the spine, other FINE.
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$17.99
Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
by Frank Lloyd Wright
FACSIMILE EDITION in decorated boards, with no dust jacket as issue. The book has some light sunning to the spine - otherwise FINE.
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$17.99
Fay Jones
by Robert Adams Ivy Jr
FIRST PAPERBACK edition in decorated wraps. Crease at spine; a few small rubbed spots. Previous owner's gift inscription. NEAR FINE. Profusely illustrated with color and black & white photographs.
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$79.99
Visions of Wright
by (WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd). Farrell Grehan, photographer
FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket are FINE. Introduction by Terence Riley.
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$19.99
Joze Plecnik, 1872-1957 : architectura perennis
by Prelovsek, Damja
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket with wee bit of edge sunning./fine. Folio in black color illu sjacket; 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. "Joze Plecnik (1872-1957), one of the most important European architects of the twentieth century, created a highly original and independent architectural language. Drawing on the architecture of antiquity, the theories of Gottfried Semper and the teachings of Otto Wagner, Plecnik developed a refined but eclectic...
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$180.00
Rassegna 28. Perret 25bis Rue Franklin
by Gregotti, Vittorio
Milan, Italy: Rassegna, 1979. This is an about very good softcover copy with light wear. Top corner of spine bumped. Very clean inside and out. Text in Italian, English, French and German. This issue of Rassegna, focusses on the first building in concrete erected by Perret & Cie. in 1903, at 25bis Rue Franklin in Paris. It is considered to be the first building to show the possiblities of exposed concrete, though much of the facade has tile cladding. Essays by Vittorio Gregotti, Joseph Abram, Martin...
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$75.00
Edifici Per La Cultura - Parte Prima - Biblioteche
by Carbonara, Pasquale
Milan, Italy: Antonio Vallardi Editore, 1947. This is an about very good hardcover reference copy in tan paper-covered boards. The boards are bowed out a bit at the top and bottom edges. Very clean inside and out. No dust jacket. Text in Italian. This is a survey of modern library architecture throughout Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs, plans, elevations and details. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 127 pages. . Hard...
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$25.00
James Stirling Buildings & Projects 1950- 1974
by Jacobus, John & James Stirling
London: Thames & Hudson, 1996. This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in English and German. Introduction by John Jacobus. This is the 1996 reprint of the Thames & Hudson, 1975 first edition. James Stirling's career can effectively be divided between this early work, 38 projects, from 1950 to 1974, and then the second half of his working life when he joined forces with Michael Wilford. (That work is surveyed in the Thames &...
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$125.00
Perspecta 5 The Yale Architectural Journal
by Close II, Edwin
New Haven: The Yale School of Architecture, 1959. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean. This is an early issue of the important architectural journal: Perspecta, published by the The Yale School of Architecture. Articles by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Mario Salvadori, Edward Larrabee Barnes, King Lui Wu, William Wurster & Catherine Bauer, Paul Nelson, George Izenour and Vincent Scully, Jr. Illustrated in black & white + 1 fold-out drawing. 12" high X...
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$75.00
Documentos de Arquitectura 34 Rafael Moneo Fundacion Pilar y Joan Miro
by Moneo, Rafael
Almeria, Spain : Documentos de Arquitectura, 1996. This is a very good softcover copy with the red printed obi banner with just light wear. Completely clean. Text in Spanish and English. Texts by Rafael Moneo. Chronological list of Moneo's architectural projects. Illustrated in black & white and color. 13" high X 8" wide, 57 text pages + ads. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.
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$125.00
Michel Polak, de l'Art Nouveau a l'Art Deco
by Schoonbroodt, Benoit
Bruxelles Commission de l'Environnement de Bruxelles-Ouest , 2003. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in FRENCH. This monograph was prepared to publicize the work of a Belgian architect and designer, Michel Polak (1885- 1948). Illustrated in black & white and color. Lots of vintage photographs show Michel Polak's architecture and individual pieces of furniture. His work is divided into two periods: La Periode Montreusienne and La periode...
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$95.00
Global Architecture 15: Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1925 - Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, Arizona, 1938
by Futagawa, Yukio
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1972. This is a very good softcover copy in the original bright red printed wrappers with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out, just light toning to page-edges. Text in English and Japanese. This special issue of GA covers Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin East & Taliesin West. Essay by Masami Tanigawa. All photographs by Yukio Futagawa. Photographs about half color, half black & white. 6 pages of architectural drawings reproduced in sepia. 14" high X 10"...
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$45.00
Frank O. Gehry. El Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
by Coosje van Bruggen
Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, 1997. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Soft crease to front cover, bottom right corner. SIGNED by Frank Gehry, in ink on the first page, the half title-page, with his distinctive hand. Not inscribed to anybody, just signed. Otherwise completely clean. Text in SPANISH. The is the Spanish language edition published when the Bilbao Museum was first opened. The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition...
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$195.00
Rob Mallet-Stevens. Architecture, Furniture, Interior Design
by Pinchon, Jean François [ed.]; Délégation à l'Action Atristique de la Ville de Paris
Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. 1990. First UK Edition. Ochre hardback cloth cover. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). 135pp. Colour and b/w plates. One of France's most controversial architects in the Modern Movement. .
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$108.96
Docklands
by Williams, Stephanie
London: Phaidon, 1996 reprint. 167pp. illus. + folding map. slim paperback 8vo: Fine [large publisher's rem. stamp on half-title p.; else F] An illustrated architectural guide to London's rejuvenated Docklands.
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$4.99
