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Carme Pinos: AN ARCHITECTURE OF OVERLAY

Carme Pinos: AN ARCHITECTURE OF OVERLAY by Ana Maria Torres (Paperback 2004)

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Lyrical and evocative in both concept and form, the work of Catalan architect Carme Pins is notable for its uncompromising embodiment of the physical, historic, and metaphoric qualities of its sites. Pins explores the landscape personally, drawing from it a vocabulary of forms -- lines, planes, read more...
 
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House by Franklin Toker (Paperback 2005)

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Fallingwater Risingis a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to read more...
 
Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings & Projects 2004-2009

Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings & Projects 2004-2009 by Robert A.M. Stern, Paul Goldberger (Paperback 2009)

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I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, "appropriate." Appropriate from every point of view, especially from the site, the read more...
 
Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Towns by Robert A.M. Stern (Paperback 2007)

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Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, read more...
 
Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1998-2003

Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1998-2003 by Robert A.M. Stern (Paperback 2004)

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"In over thirty years of practice, Robert A.M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. Inspired by the legacy of great American architecture, his firm, Robert A.M. Stern read more...
 
Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern by Robert A.M. Stern (Paperback 2003)

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In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. Inspired by the legacy of great American architecture, his firm, Robert A. M. read more...
 
The Philip Johnson Tapes

The Philip Johnson Tapes by Philip Johnson, Robert A.M. Stern (Paperback 2008)

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Debate and banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate and opinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astute commentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in the twentieth century. Philip Johnson's multifaceted career as an read more...
 
Edwin Lutyens

Edwin Lutyens by Gavin Stamp (Paperback 2009)

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Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to read more...
 
Michael Sorkin Studio (Works in Progress)

Michael Sorkin Studio (Works in Progress) by Michael Sorkin (Paperback 1998)

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This monograph documents over a decade's worth of projects from this important New York-based firm. Although urban areas are most frequently the subject of the Studio's iconoclastic rejuvenation, an attention to nature and natural form is nonetheless ubiquitous.
 
Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos by Roberto Schezen (Paperback 2009)

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