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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0870702823
- ASIN: 0870702823
- ISBN: 0870702823
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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The Bowery Boys: Adventures in Old New York: An Unconventional Exploration of Manhattan's Historic Neighborhoods, Secret Spots and Colorful Characters
“Among the best city-centric series.”–New York TimesTHE BOWERY BOYS' OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THEIR WILDLY POPULAR, AWARD-WINNING PODCASTThe Bowery Boys podcast is a phenomenon, thrilling audiences each month with one amazing story after the next. Now, in their first-ever book, the duo gives you an exclusive personal tour through New York’s old cobblestone streets and gas-lit back alleyways. Featuring fascinating guides to:• Hell's Kitchen and Columbus Circle• The Bowery and Astor Place• Tribeca and Foley Square• Chinatown and Little Italy• and all the rest of New York!
- ASIN: 1612435572
- ASIN: 1612435572
- ISBN: 9781612435572
- Brand: Ulysses Press
- Manufacturer: Ulysses Press
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All the Buildings in New York: That I've Drawn So Far
A charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to New York City, told through James Gulliver Hancock’s unique and charming drawings of the city’s diverse architectural styles and cityscape. His buildings are colorful and chock full of fun and offbeat details, and this book is full of new discoveries as well as old chestnuts for anyone who loves the Big Apple. Organized by neighborhoods, the book features iconic New York buildings, such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and Flatiron Buildin... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0789324679
- ASIN: 0789324679
- ISBN: 0789324679
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Universe
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York
From New York magazine’s architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City—a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution of the city For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of New York to his readers at New York magazine, introducing new buildings, interviewing architects, tracking the way the transforming urban landscape shapes who New Yorkers are. Now, his extensive... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0553394703
- ASIN: 0553394703
- ISBN: 0553394703
- Brand: SPIEGEL GRAU
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
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AIA Guide to New York City
Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of New York's architectural heritage" (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City. First published in 1968, the AIA Guide to New York City has long been the definitive guide to the city's architecture. Moving through all five boroughs, neighborhood by neighborhood, it offers the most complete overview... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0195383869
- ASIN: 0195383869
- ISBN: 9780195383867
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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The Good Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design
Crisp hornbeam hedges lining a country drive and throwing geometric shadows on the gravel below. Decadent cascades of fragrant wisteria spilling over a stone pergola. Rustling leaves along an allée of delicate crepe myrtle trees. Waving blossoms of roses, sage, and hydrangeas—along a salty shoreline. Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects creates gardens filled with unexpected textures, colors, and sounds meant to appeal to all the senses, inviting us to truly live in the landscape. This volume presents dozens of gorgeous estate gardens throughout the Northeast, approached thematically; indi... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1580934153
- ASIN: 1580934153
- ISBN: 1580934153
- Manufacturer: The Monacelli Press
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The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building
The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word.The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how th... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1616894377
- ASIN: 1616894377
- ISBN: 1616894377
- Brand: PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
- Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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A House in the Country
Nestled amid the lush, gently rolling hills of cattle and horse farms in Millbrook, New York, is a handsome Greek Revival house that looks like it’s always been there. In fact, it is brand new—the collaborative effort of architect Peter Pennoyer and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder. This irresistible book, exquisitely illustrated with photographs, finely rendered plans, and hand-painted illustrations, tells the home’s story. The design followed Pennoyer’s conviction that historical examples are a springboard for the imagination and offer compelling solutions for new architectur... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0865653291
- ASIN: 0865653291
- ISBN: 0865653291
- Brand: Vendome Press
- Manufacturer: Vendome Press
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door.The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, Jam... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1476794057
- ASIN: 1476794057
- ISBN: 1476794057
- Brand: Atria Books
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades―celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths long-lost threads of the urban past, telling the rich history of the rise, fall, and reinvention of one of the world’s most resurgent cities.Spanning centuries and neighborhoods, Brooklyn-born Ca... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0691165386
- ASIN: 0691165386
- ISBN: 0691165386
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York
Timed to be released at the start of 2008 spring training, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx chronicles the entire history of a stadium that has been home to the greatest dynasty in sports history, a stadium that will see its final Yankees game in 2008.As Yankee Stadium is about to become a memory, an indelible part of the cultural history of baseball and of New York City, Neil Sullivan's The Diamond in the Bronx offers a fascinating account of its history and its position at the intersection of sports, business, government, and society, Sullivan tells how Yankee Stadium came to be buil... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0195331834
- ASIN: 0195331834
- ISBN: 9780195331837
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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American Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: I. Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth-Century and William and Mary Styles
The Metropolitan Museum’s preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the 17th and early 18th centuries―from chairs and other seating to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, and desks. Each of the 141 objects is thoroughly described with detailed information on provenance, construction, condition, inscriptions, dimensions, and materials. Photographed anew in color for this volume, each piece is explicated in terms of the styles and craftsmanship of ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0300116470
- ASIN: 0300116470
- ISBN: 0300116470
- Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Home: The Best of The New York Times Home Section: The Way We Live Now
Appealing and innovative houses that show creativity, ingenuity, and design savvy for all homeowners today. With striking photographs and compelling stories from its vast home-design archive, the editors of the New York Times’s beloved Home section offer a look at how contemporary homeowners make the most of their living spaces—whether small or stately, rural or urban, historic or cutting-edge—and do it with style. Reflecting the latest and most inventive ideas in home design, the projects express the optimism, resourcefulness, and experimentation of today’s architects, designers, and ... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0847859959
- ASIN: 0847859959
- ISBN: 0847859959
- Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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Tiny New York: The Smallest Things in the Biggest City
Because in a giant city, sometimes the smallest things get overlooked.Tiny New York peeks into the city’s nooks and crannies to find the little things that tell the real New York story. Because in New York, Tiny isn’t cute. It’s tough. Tiny doesn’t wait for handouts. It hustles. Tiny isn’t insignificant. It’s precise. Tiny isn’t a jack-of-all-trades. It’s the master of one.There are plenty of books about New York City. But there has never been a book about the smallest things in the biggest city.
- ASIN: 1493031503
- ASIN: 1493031503
- ISBN: 1493031503
- Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
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Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building
Tufte ( The visual display of quantitative information ) continues the brilliant work published in 1983 on the best means of displaying multivariate information on a flat surface. This elaborate book (up to 23 color impressions on a single plate and a tipped-in triangle/pyramid) hints at the large revenues of Graphic Press' (Box 430, Cheshire, CT 06410) first book. This is a beautiful book lots of color, lucid reproduction, fine paper (slightly alkaline) with an exquisite dust jacket (covering a shockingly drab case). Tufte presents design strategies for enhancing the dimensionality and densit... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0807818984
- ASIN: 0807818984
- ISBN: 0807818984
- Manufacturer: Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Black and White Photography Cityscape of Flatiron Building and 5th Ave, Manhattan, NYC, US Architecture Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 374936972
- Color: MulticolorBlack and White
- Size: 12 x 912" x 9"
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The New York Stock Exchange Building, Wall Street, Manhattan, NYC, White Frame Landmark Architecture BLack and White Photography Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 873828496
- Color: MulticolorBlack and White
- Size: 9" x 12"9 x 12
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Architecture and Buildings, 9/11 Memorial, 1Wtc, Manhattan, NYC, USA, Black and White Photography Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 479506276
- Color: WhiteMulticolorBlack
- Size: 12 x 1612" x 16"
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View from the Window - NYC Architecture Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 860963457
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 16" x 16"16 x 16
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View from the Window - NYC Architecture Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 745297737
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 16" x 16"16 x 16
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NYC Architecture I Print Wall Art By Jeff Pica
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 373707608
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24
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View from the Window - NYC Architecture Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 991029798
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 16" x 16"16 x 16
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View from the Window - NYC Architecture Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 268661528
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 16" x 16"16 x 16
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View from the Window - NYC Architecture Print Wall Art By Philippe Hugonnard
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 246927771
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 16" x 16"16 x 16
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NYC Architecture IV Print Wall Art By Jeff Pica
Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery
- UPC: 227687722
- Color: Multicolor
- Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24
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