$87.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This book brings together for the first time the work of four twentieth century Swiss engineers and their teachers: Wilhelm Ritter (1847–1906), Robert Maillart (1872–1940), Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), Pierre Lardy (1902–1956), Heinz Isler (b. 1926), and Christian Menn (b. 1927). The book features many newly commissioned photographs, including images of important new(...)
The art of structural design : a Swiss legacy
Actions:
Price:
$87.95
(available to order)
Summary:
This book brings together for the first time the work of four twentieth century Swiss engineers and their teachers: Wilhelm Ritter (1847–1906), Robert Maillart (1872–1940), Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), Pierre Lardy (1902–1956), Heinz Isler (b. 1926), and Christian Menn (b. 1927). The book features many newly commissioned photographs, including images of important new structures such as the Charles River Bridge in Boston, completed by Menn in 2002.
Engineering Structures
Morphosis 2004-2018
$155.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis is on the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design. This book documents the great variety of the firm's creations across the globe, a new academic building for the Cooper Union in New York, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas, the Casablanca Finance City Tower in(...)
Morphosis 2004-2018
Actions:
Price:
$155.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Known for its architecture of complexity, disruption, and ambiguity, Morphosis is on the cutting edge of exploration and discovery in design. This book documents the great variety of the firm's creations across the globe, a new academic building for the Cooper Union in New York, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas, the Casablanca Finance City Tower in Morocco, and the Sejong M-Bridge, in Sejong City, South Korea.
Architecture Monographs
The world unfurled
$8.99
(available to order)
Summary:
Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK International Airport. Now Pericoli has rendered that same mural in this unique accordion format. The original 397-foot drawing (the largest ever featured in an airline terminal) captures the breathtaking beauty of 415 famous buildings from 70 countries melded into(...)
October 2008, San Francisco
The world unfurled
Actions:
Price:
$8.99
(available to order)
Summary:
Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK International Airport. Now Pericoli has rendered that same mural in this unique accordion format. The original 397-foot drawing (the largest ever featured in an airline terminal) captures the breathtaking beauty of 415 famous buildings from 70 countries melded into a seamless skyline where the Eiffel Tower rubs shoulders with the Brooklyn Bridge.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: black box
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Hiroshi Sugimoto has explored ideas of time, empiricism and metaphysics through a surreal and formalistic approach since the 1970s. A self-described "habitual self-interlocutor," Sugimoto uses the camera as a bridge between abstract questions and the quiet, comical nature of modern everyday life. This new project presents a survey of Sugimoto’s iconic work, from his calm(...)
Photography monographs
April 2016
Hiroshi Sugimoto: black box
Actions:
Price:
$85.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Hiroshi Sugimoto has explored ideas of time, empiricism and metaphysics through a surreal and formalistic approach since the 1970s. A self-described "habitual self-interlocutor," Sugimoto uses the camera as a bridge between abstract questions and the quiet, comical nature of modern everyday life. This new project presents a survey of Sugimoto’s iconic work, from his calm seascapes to his more recent exploration of lightning fields and photogenic drawing.
Photography monographs
South Street
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived(...)
South Street
Actions:
Price:
$31.00
(available to order)
Summary:
South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally policed world that was deeply hostile to outsiders.
History since 1900, Reference Books
$41.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities' leftover spaces and help us(...)
Small scale: Creative solutions for better living
Actions:
Price:
$41.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities' leftover spaces and help us imagine the future of our urban infrastructure.
books
Description:
xiii, 354 pages illustrations 29 cm
London, E. Methuen [1973]
The development of the English playhouse.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
xiii, 354 pages illustrations 29 cm
books
London, E. Methuen [1973]
books
Description:
xxii, 1055 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
AIA guide to New York City / [edited by] Norval White, Elliot Willensky with Fran Leadon.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
xxii, 1055 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
books
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
books
Description:
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
Robert Mills : America's first architect / John M. Bryan.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
xiii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
books
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
books
Description:
157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm + 10 maps in container
Los Angeles : Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, ©2007.
An atlas of radical cartography / edited by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm + 10 maps in container
books
Los Angeles : Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, ©2007.