Architects category: 3350 books
Caught in the Crosshairs of History
The Depression, Wwii, Post-War Adjustment and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Growing up during the Great Depression, then caught up in WWII, is a story of hardship, courage, and finally, redemption. The G.I Bill would open the door to professional life that would never have been possible to many returning Veterans. It was escape from going back to the factory or digging ditches...
The Alchemy of Things
Interiors shaped by curious minds
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
If you have read The House that Pinterest Built, Smart Spaces, Iconic Australian Houses, or Elements of Style, you're going to love Karen McCartney's new book The Alchemy of Things.
Karen McCartney's eighteen most fascinating homes in the world: The Alchemy of Things invites you into the homes...
Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin
Art, Sex, and Magick in the Weimar Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
A biographical history of Aleister Crowley’s activities in Berlin from 1930 to 1932 as Hitler was rising to power
• Examines Crowley’s focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with magical orders
•...
by Robert McCarter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
Central Park, a verdant refuge from the teeming, ever-shaded concrete corridors that crisscross Manhattan is beloved by both tourists and New Yorkers. The 700-acre park with winding paths, undulating hills, carpets of flowers in spring equally resplendent with fall colors dotted with lakes, was America's...
Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.
In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce...
You Say to Brick
The Life of Louis Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces,...
Michael Graves
Design for Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling-bird teakettle, and controversial buildings, such as the Portland Building in Oregon, Humana Building...
Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White
Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential, far-reaching architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine...
William Woodward
American Impressionist
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
William Woodward (1859-1939) was a force in New Orleans and the art world, and his legacy endures. In this first compilation of examples of Woodward's work spanning his career, essayists offer unique perspectives on the artist and his art.
Woodward was a graduate of the Rhode Island School...
Twenty Over Eighty
Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and...
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City
Architectural Heart of the Prairie
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
“A superb study of what a stellar group of architects accomplished in the Iowa locale, not to mention the vision of the locals” (Universitas).
In the early 1900s, Frank Lloyd Wright transformed a small midwestern prairie community into one of the world’s most important architectural destinations....
Shopping Town
Designing the City in Suburban America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue...
by Herbert Muschamp
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
From the late Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of The New York Times and one of the most outspoken and influential voices in architectural criticism, a collection of his best work.
The pieces here—from The New Republic, Artforum, and The New York Times—reveal how Muschamp’s...