Resultados de búsqueda: Architecture / Criticism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1990. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. With photographs from the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Originally published: London: Trefoil Publications, 1990. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. A solid copy. No DJ Issued? "That many of Buckminster Fuller's schemes remained dreams overlooks his importance as a teacher and thinker about architecture and urbanism, and his concern with the environment and the role of technology in improving the quality of life, mark him out as a man before his time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Monacelli Press, 2009. Pictorial boards, 319 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Articles originally published 1997-2009 in the New Yorker, the New York Times and Metropolis magazine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger's tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating era in the world of architecture, one in which larger-than-life buildings, urban schemes, historic preservation battles, and personalities have commanded an international stage. Goldbergers keen observations and sharp wit make him one of the most insightful and passionate architectural voices of our time. In this collection of fifty-seven essays, the critic Tracy Kidder called 'America's foremost interpreter of public architecture' ranges from Havana to Beijing, from Chicago to Las Vegas, dissecting everything… Leer más

Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. Cloth, 309 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Topstained orange. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. CONTENTS: I. INTRODUCTION. 1. The Circle and the century (Idealism and realism); II. HENRY ADAMS' WRITINGS ON ART AND ARTISTS; 2. Harvard and Berlin (First contacts with art; German idealistic philosophy: Hegel); 3. London (The Pre-Raphaelites; Art collecting); 4. Travels (Europe, America, Africa and Asia; Observations on art; the South Seas and attempts at watercolor); 5. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Medieval art as manifestation of the spirit; published sources); 6. Other art and artists (Early American art; Contemporary art and artists); III. THE ARTISTS OF THE INNER CIRCLE; 7. The architect, the painter, and the sculptor; 8. Henry Hobson Richardson (Architecture); John La Farge (Painting; stained glass; theory of art); 10. Augustus Saint-Gaudens; IV. THE VIRGIN AND THE DYNAMO… Leer más

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. Cloth, vii, 397 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Part 1: the city reborn; The revival of the west; Manufacture, trade, and money; Church and state; The texture of life; Bruges and Venice; Part 2: the city triumphant; Rome resplendent; The rise of the north; Amsterdam and Paris; The uses of leisure; A new scale; The city as export; Part 3: the exploding city; Manchester and the industrial city; London and the growth of the suburb; Paris and the boulevards; America and the birth of the skyscraper; Cities round the world; Babylon or Jerusalem; Epilogue; Notes to the text; Photographic acknowledgements; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. xv, 301 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. This is a translation of the eighth edition of Urbanisme, a landmark work in the development of modern city planning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London and New York: Architectural Design; St. Martin's Press, 1982. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Architectural design; 5-6, 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "The narrative of recent architecture tells how Post-Modernism, was born to disreputable Modernist parents, left home and took to the road, how he went to Shingle-style and Neo-Corbusian American, how he served in the household of Late-Modernism, and how, after more adventures - such as the short-lived affairs he had with Queen-Anne Revival and Collegiate Gothic - he returned to a Classicism that was to be qualified as Free-style." - Introduction. Contributions by: Leon Krier; Jose-Ignacio Linazasoro; Dimitris Fatouros; Manuel Iniguez; Alberto Ustarroz; Demetri Porphyrios; Miguel Garay; Edward Jones; Aldo Rossi; Alexander and Charis Calligas; and Giorgio Grassi.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art; New York Graphic Society, 1977. 132 pages, illustrations; 23 x 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. The pioneering document on post-modern architecture.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York: North Point Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. 193 pages; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism. 'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask. In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective hence, 'waste equals food' is… Leer más

London and New York: Verso Books, 2002. Cloth, xv, 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Cloth, 348 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas--from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism--form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years--Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern--The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of… Leer más

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. vi, 289 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine a little faded, slight crease to the front cover. Age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1964. 336 pages, illustrations, plans, portraits; 26 cm. Contributors: Kyosti Alander, el al. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. With 442 Illustrations.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2016. viii, 482 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day. Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other outlets, while amassing the knowledge she would draw upon to write her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Here, too, is the activist who… Leer más

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. Cloth, 143 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Spoof on modernist architecture from the master of New Journalism.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Bantam Books, 1999. 111 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. xxi, 262 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Despite increasing popular attention to issues of diversity and under-representation in architecture, power and control within the profession remain in the hands of white men. Of all the creative forms, architecture remains the least accessible to the inhabitants of deprived urban neighborhoods. The absence of a significant minority presence in the field reinforces the disconnect between designers and users. But things are changing. Hip-Hop Architecture explores the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop. It is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip hop's cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas. The book begins by outlining an architectural manifesto - the voice of the underrepresented,… Leer más

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. 103 pages, [79] pages of plates; 23 cm. Rizzoli essays on architecture, 3. Translated from the Italian. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. CONTENTS: Neoclassicism and architecture in France in the second half of the eighteenth century; A bourgeois career; Projects and buildings; Scientific thought and architectural language in Durand's theoretical work.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. xxi, 628 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Malcolm Cowley called Lewis Mumford "the last of the great humanists," and indeed, in more than six decades of writing, Mumford made contributions to history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism, and urban planning. The author of some thirty books, Mumford produced a body of work almost unequaled in the twentieth century for its range and richness. A New York Times Notable Book, Donald Miller's engagingly written biography reveals Mumford's full and fascinating life. Based on ten years of research and unprecedented access to original and private papers, Miller penetrates Mumford's reserved public persona and takes in the complete man, his works as well as his days, as he struggles… Leer más

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers; A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 1991. xii, 254 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket slightly faded.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Munich and New York: Prestel; Architecture in Focus Ser., 2003. 175 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), plans; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "What is minimalism in architecture? This trenchant re-examination traces the unfolding of minimalism as one of the dominant design trends today. In a fascinating aesthetic voyage, this book offers perspectives on the directions the movement is taking as it morphs toward the future." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.