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This volume contains work, both built and unbuilt, both large-scale and small, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects. Alan Ritchie has worked with Johnson since 1969; the firm was established in 1994. The projects shown may be divided into two groups. Johnson’s interest in the past decade in sculptural form - or the way in which(...)
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January 2003, New York
Philip Johnson / Alan Ritchie architects
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This volume contains work, both built and unbuilt, both large-scale and small, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects. Alan Ritchie has worked with Johnson since 1969; the firm was established in 1994. The projects shown may be divided into two groups. Johnson’s interest in the past decade in sculptural form - or the way in which sculptural form translates into architectural presence - has led to designs that involve both new kinds of shapes and new ways of using classic architectural form to make entirely new works of architecture. Such sculptural works, for the most part small in scale, include Da Monsta, the new visitors pavilion at Johnson’s famed Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, and a spectacular folly consisting of four pyramids made of chain-link fencing at an estate in New York State. Simultaneously, the firm has continued its ongoing work with larger projects, such as a 27-story apartment tower for Tribeca, in lower Manhattan; the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas; an addition to the Amon Carter Museum, originally designed by Johnson in 1961, in Forth Worth, Texas; and a proposal for the architecture school at Texas A University in College Station. Also included are a pair of proposals for La Défense in Paris; three large houses; a new china design for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York; and a new public clock, sponsored by Movado, for Lincoln Center. Introduction by Paul Goldberger.
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Robert Adam's castles
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In the last fifteen years of his life, Robert Adam produced a series of picturesque landscape fantasies which he never exhibitied, but which were the recreation of his leisure hours. He also made amny designs for buildings in the Castle Style; both these groups form the subject of this exhibition catalogue which explores this compartively neglected aspect(...)
Robert Adam's castles
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In the last fifteen years of his life, Robert Adam produced a series of picturesque landscape fantasies which he never exhibitied, but which were the recreation of his leisure hours. He also made amny designs for buildings in the Castle Style; both these groups form the subject of this exhibition catalogue which explores this compartively neglected aspect of Adam's work. The works are taken from the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum.
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January 2000, London
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This book provides a critical retrospective of the architecture, urbanism, and design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates, ranging from the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London to the revitalization of Washington Avenue in Miami to the group of historically inspired chairs for Knoll. Filled with colour plates, many illustrating a variety of(...)
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June 2001, New Haven
BACK IN STOCK!: Venturi, Brown and associates: out of the ordinary
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This book provides a critical retrospective of the architecture, urbanism, and design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates, ranging from the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London to the revitalization of Washington Avenue in Miami to the group of historically inspired chairs for Knoll. Filled with colour plates, many illustrating a variety of energetic drawings, the book shows the diversity of the firm's creative output and the singularity of the architects' visions. This book serves as a catalogue and accompanies the exhibition organised by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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June 2001, New Haven
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Accidentism : Josef Frank
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The designs, buildings and writings of Josef Frank go back to the dawn of the 20th century and the beginning of the "Scandinavian style." An early advocate of classical modernism, Frank ended up a harsh critic of its dogmatism. "Accidentism: Josef Frank" is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the late work of this important Austrian architect, designer and(...)
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March 2005, Basel
Accidentism : Josef Frank
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The designs, buildings and writings of Josef Frank go back to the dawn of the 20th century and the beginning of the "Scandinavian style." An early advocate of classical modernism, Frank ended up a harsh critic of its dogmatism. "Accidentism: Josef Frank" is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the late work of this important Austrian architect, designer and theoretician. These later works include unrealized and (until now) unpublished building projects as well as his timeless furniture and textile designs.
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Presentations and analyses of Kahn's essential realized buildings are the focal point of this book, from the early work, which has gained recognition only in recent years, to the large-scale projects for the capital buildings of Bangladesh in Dhaka and the (...)
Louis I. Kahn : the idea of order
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Presentations and analyses of Kahn's essential realized buildings are the focal point of this book, from the early work, which has gained recognition only in recent years, to the large-scale projects for the capital buildings of Bangladesh in Dhaka and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. The book's starting point is the reconstruction of the design process of the buildings according to their plans and elevations. Kahn's distinctive modernism, exemplified in projects such as the Richards Laboratories in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, is traced to its most simple and basic geometric shapes and is developed in fascinating complexity. The drawings, made exclusively for this publication, are combined with previously unpublished photographs.
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March 2001, Basel
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Cornelia Brierly was one of the first apprentices to attend Frank Lloyd Wright's school of architecture. Before long, she was a working colleague of the master architect; during the last thirty years of his career, she made important design contributions to many of his building projects. Brierly has spent most of her life at Wright's Taliesin (Wisconsin) and Taliesin(...)
Tales of Taliesin : a memoir of fellowship
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Cornelia Brierly was one of the first apprentices to attend Frank Lloyd Wright's school of architecture. Before long, she was a working colleague of the master architect; during the last thirty years of his career, she made important design contributions to many of his building projects. Brierly has spent most of her life at Wright's Taliesin (Wisconsin) and Taliesin West (Arizona). This illustrated memoir tells the story of nearly seventy years spent with the Taliesin Fellowship. It is an important work, not only because of the author's closeness to the twentieth century's foremost architect but because she has observed at first hand the unfolding of organic architecture -- Wright's design precepts made manifest. In an affectionate, honest, and preceptive book, she celebrates the fellowship as a way of life and brings to life a vibrant community that is still going strong, forty years after Wright's death.
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January 1900, Rohnert Park
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Harrie Thomas Lindeberg (1879-1959) was one of America's most prominent 20th century domestic architects. He designed refined country houses throughout the United States for an elite clientele, and his name became synonymous with the rich man's country estate. Royal Cortissoz, in his introduction, cited Lindeberg's distinctive artistic personality as a key to his success(...)
Domestic architecture of H.T. Lindeberg
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Harrie Thomas Lindeberg (1879-1959) was one of America's most prominent 20th century domestic architects. He designed refined country houses throughout the United States for an elite clientele, and his name became synonymous with the rich man's country estate. Royal Cortissoz, in his introduction, cited Lindeberg's distinctive artistic personality as a key to his success and put him on a par with Charles McKim, Charles Platt, Henry Bacon, Stanford White, and John Russell Pope. Lindeberg was one of a large group of American architects who trained in the offices of McKim, Mead and White. Born in New Jersey, he served as an assistant to Stanford White on prestigious domestic commissions prior to White's death in 1906. Shortly thereafter he formed a partnership with his colleague Lewis Colt Albro and quickly became a sought-after designer of rustic country houses for the elite of American society. His style was urbane, refined and elegant, yet was always touched with a hint of idiosyncratic wit, much like that of his English contemporary Edwin Lutyens. His 1940 monograph is a rare and beautiful example of the folio retrospectives that chronicled the careers of leading domestic architects of the early 20th century. Virtually all of his major commissions are represented in large-format photographs and plans.
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Renzo Piano
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Renzo Piano has been a leading protagonist on the stage of world architecture since the 1970s. His work combines the best building traditions of his native land with the most advanced technological achievements of the late 20th century. Amongst his most celebrated creations are the Pompidou Centre in Paris, built together with Richard Rogers, the de Menil collection in(...)
Renzo Piano
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Renzo Piano has been a leading protagonist on the stage of world architecture since the 1970s. His work combines the best building traditions of his native land with the most advanced technological achievements of the late 20th century. Amongst his most celebrated creations are the Pompidou Centre in Paris, built together with Richard Rogers, the de Menil collection in Houston, the redevelopment of the historical port of Genoa, Kansai International Airport in Osaka, the redevelopment scheme for the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, not to mention his much praised Beyeler Museum in Basel and cultural centre in Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Steven Holl : parallax
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This book is part treatise, part manifesto, and serves as a guide to fifteen functions as a guide to fifteen recent projects, including Cranbrook, the new dormitory at MIT, and the new Bellevue Art Museum in Washington.
Steven Holl : parallax
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This book is part treatise, part manifesto, and serves as a guide to fifteen functions as a guide to fifteen recent projects, including Cranbrook, the new dormitory at MIT, and the new Bellevue Art Museum in Washington.
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November 2000, New York
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Building on his earlier books, Randell L. Makinson joins with Thomas Heinz in producing this rich monograph on the Robert Roe Blacker house by Greene & Greene. New colour photographs provide the first full documentation of the house following(...)
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April 2000, Layton
Greene & Greene : the Blacker house
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Building on his earlier books, Randell L. Makinson joins with Thomas Heinz in producing this rich monograph on the Robert Roe Blacker house by Greene & Greene. New colour photographs provide the first full documentation of the house following its extensive five-year restoration, for which Makinson was the architect.
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April 2000, Layton
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