Bernard Tschumi
A survey of Tschumi's built projects and ideas. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good+, a few very small edge bumps; previous owner's architecture stamp on front free endpaper.
Item #1670
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A survey of Tschumi's built projects and ideas. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good+, a few very small edge bumps; previous owner's architecture stamp on front free endpaper.
Item #1670
Exhibition catalog for De Keyser exhibit at the International Cultural Center, Antwerp from October 18-November 16, 1980. Essay by Wim Van Mulders. Color and black and white reproductions, with text in Dutch and English. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar cover.
Condition: Very Good-, scuffing, wear, toning and light foxing to cover.
Item #400
A "classic of French horsemanship" from 1931 loosely translated as "The Secrets of the Equestrian Art, Its Application and Dressage of the Saddle Horse and Obstacles." With 63 photos and 9 diagrams. Nicely printed on quality paper with deckled edges. Uncut pages in the second half of the book. Text in French.
Condition: Very Good, toning to covers and light edgewear; some soiling to covers with moisture stains on spine with one extending 1.75" onto front cover; interior pages clean and crisp; now in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Item #1472
Called "a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus," Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic. This is . From City Lights Books: "In 1968, visionary poet Diane di Prima moved from Beat New York to hippie San Francisco to begin these 'letters,' poems filled with a blend of utopian imagination, radical politics, and ecological awareness. Immersed in alternative histories and mystical traditions, the poems were catapulted into the world through underground newspapers and free pamphlets, circulating far and wide.".....
Item #1637
The Winter 2005 issue of "1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues of the journal were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This issue features the articles "A Few Observations with Respect to the Canon's Tuning for Soliloquy".....
Item #924
A set of 20 issues of "1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly journal, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This set is from the collection of composer Douglas Leedy (1938-2015). Some issues include laid-in notes.....
Item #923
The Winter 2003 issue of "1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues of the journal were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This issue features "Differential Coherence: Experimenting with New Areas of Consonance" by Jacques Dudon; an Editor's.....
Item #925
The first printing of Eisenman's "Diagram Diaries," the illustrated chronicle showcasing his work to date of publication, exploring his design process and with essays by Eisenman. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good, light sunning to spine; light yellowing around pages edges; previous owner's architecture stamp on the half-title page and ghosting on the inside front cover flap.
Item #1558
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
Item #1080
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on a house by Craig Ellwood, the.....
Item #216
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on Interbau in West Berlin, Case Study.....
Item #223
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on a house by Harry Seidler, two.....
Item #225
The elegant, oversized original edition of architect Erich Mendelsohn's Amerika: Bilderbuch Eines Architekten (Picture Book of an Architect). Mendelsohn, born in Prussa in 1887, died in San Francisco in 1953. He studied and worked in Germany until 1933 when he fled the Nazis and settled in England. From 1941 until his death, he lived in the United States and taught at UC Berkeley. Mendelsohn is known for his influence on art deco and his projects for department stores and cinemas. Amerika, "with 77 photographs by the author" beautifully gravure printed.....
Item #1596
The signed and numbered special edition of "Life Size" by Sam Falls. No. 23 of 25 copies bound in hand-dyed fabric cut from original artworks. Life Size presents full-page photographs of the Los Angeles-based artist's process in making textile and dyed works, paintings and sculpture through his investigations into the natural process and contrasting the organic with the man made. The trade edition of "Life Size" is also out of print.
Condition: Fine, Like New.
Item #1344
The scarce photocopied exhibition catalog for the October 29 to November 15, 1974 exhibit of artists' stamps and stamp images at the Simon Fraser Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia. The exhibit contained approx. 2,750 stamps and images by 29 artists covering the years 1963-1973 with a few examples from 1974. Artists in the exhibit included Dieter Roth, Ken Friedman, N.E.Thing Co., Coach House Press, and various international Fluxus artists from Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, U.K., Hungary and The Netherlands. With an original Ken Friedman Fluxus West stamp affixed to.....
Item #1309
The scarce special issue of AV Monographs on Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, covering projects from 2000 to 2015. Includes 20 works and 10 projects from around the world, plus essays. Printed in full color. Text in Spanish and English. Out of print/scarce.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1567
The Spanish architecture firm and 2017 Pritzker Prize winners led by a trio of architects: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigmen and Ramon Vilalta. With essays on their architectural journey plus detailing 40 projects in photographs and schematics. Text in Spanish and English. Out of print.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1671
The French Fluxus action poet and sculptor, Robert Filliou's catalog published by Galerie René Block in an edition of 500. Scarce.
Condition: Very Good+.
Item #483
The fourth edition in 2,000 copies of this catalog documenting 180 unfired clay sculptures by Fischli & Weiss. The title translates to "Suddenly this Overview," and the works were first shown in 1981 in one of the earliest collaborations between the two artists. Images are in black and white, one per page, with the work titles listed in German, English and Portuguese. Out of print.
Condition: Near Fine, faint bump to lower corner of front cover.
Item #977
An in-depth look at van der Rohe's early career, the first to examine the architect's work in Europe in terms of specific historical and cultural context, rather than the more abstract and formal arguments of the International Style. Here 11 scholars and architectural historians explore particular aspects of Mies's work, shedding new light on the interplay of tradition and innovation, nature and abstraction, in the evolution of his design theories and methods. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings, many not previously published. Published to accompany the groundbreaking 2001 exhibition at.....
Item #1680
A rather straightforward 1970s guide to gay male lovemaking, including photos, by a psychologist with "special medical assistance" from two medical doctors. Eschewing traditional scientific language for a more casual or "honest" verbiage, this "is a book we hope that we hope will help gay men to enjoy their sexuality more fully". No title on spine for discreet shelving. Must be 18 or older to purchase.
Condition: Very Good, light moisture stain to covers along bottom near spine, not affecting interior pages; no dust jacket (as issued?).
Item #1576
Richard Aldrich's first solo museum exhibit, curated by Laura Fried, Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Aldrich's work was accompanied and juxtaposed by four paintings in the 19th Century French tradition from the St. Louis Art Museum, including Vuillard and Bonnard. With images of the work in the exhibit along with descriptive short texts by Aldrich, as well as installion views. Includes contributions by Domonic Molon and Forrest Nash. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good+, light toning around edges of covers; very faint scuffing to covers; otherwise.....
Item #1500
Richard Aldrich's first solo museum exhibit, curated by Laura Fried, Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Aldrich's work was accompanied and juxtaposed by four paintings in the 19th Century French tradition from the St. Louis Art Museum, including Vuillard and Bonnard. With images of the work in the exhibit along with descriptive short texts by Aldrich, as well as installion views. Includes contributions by Domonic Molon and Forrest Nash. Out of print.
Condition: New in shrinkwrap.
Item #1501
Over 1,000 pages of images, drawings and maquettes from the Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer best known for his manifesto on mobile architecture. Illustrated in black and white and color, with drawings
and photographs. Text in English and French. Out of print and scarce.
Condition: Very Good+, light scuffing to covers; .5" bump along spine edge of front cover.
Item #841
The second book in Fritscher's photos of muscle men, bodybuilders, cowboys, cops, and other masculine men "at serious play." Photos in black and white. Out of print. Must be 18 or older to purchase.
Condition: Very Good+, light scuffing to covers.
Item #1578