The scarce survey of 20th Century abstract painting and sculpture which influenced the development of modern architecture. Featuring work from the Miller Company collection of abstract art and including artists such as Léger, Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Klee, Miro, Arp, Stuart Davis, O'Keeffe, Perle Fine, and others. With many works reproduced in color and some architectural photographs in black and white. Introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the first director of MoMA New York.

Condition: Very Good, lacking the dust jacket; a few small dents to cover edges; a .25".....
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From the Detail Praxis series looking at the details and case studies of specific architectural methods and topics, this covering timber construction and including technical information, drawings, photos, schematics, and product overviews. Includes documentation of nine timber buildings. Out of print.

Condition: Near Fine, light edgewear; previous owner's architecture stamp on first page.
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A major study reevaluating the entire body of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's work in America. Based on new research, this huge tome brings to light previously unstudied material including drawings and collages, photographs, project documents, and oral histories. Featuring nine essays and packed with more than 600 illustrations. Co-published by the Candian Centre for Architecture, Hatje Cantz and the Whitney Museum of American Art to accompany the major touring exhibition. The fold-out building chronology of van der Rohe's work in America in the back pocket is present. This.....
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A collection of 35 monographs and publications on Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), spanning the long career of this iconic American architect and designer. Including rare and out-of-print early books and publications, plus contemporary retrospective exhibition monographs, single-issue dedicated or feature magazine publications, and a small collection of ephemera, including Taliesen items. An instant FLW Library! The collection includes: • Frank Lloyd Wright: On Architecture (Grosset & Dunlap, 1941 paperback) • Frank Lloyd Wright: The Natural House (Horizon Press, 1954 hardcover) • Monona Basin Project: Schematic Master Plan for the City.....
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A massive Phaidon monograph on the mid-century architect and furniture designer, Marcel Breuer, known for his Brutalist buidlings and the Wassily Chair created while he was at the Bauhaus. Touted as the most comprehensive book on Breuer, looking in detail at all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed In Europe and the United States, from his beginning at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, and the establishment of his own practice in the United States. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations. Out of print. This book is.....
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A massive oversized catalogue raisonné on the complete work of the architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. A definitive and impressive book on the important work of these influential architects who defined architecture at the beginning of the 20th Century. Wonderful photography in black and white with select color images. Out of print and scarce. Due to size and weight, an additional shipping fee of $10 will be added at checkout.

Condition: Near Fine, light edgewear and minor scuffing to DJ; previous owner's architectural stamp on half-title page.
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Produced in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name and the symposium "Critical Writings on Piranesi in America". Images in black and white. This is catalog number four in the series from Columbia Books of Architecture.

Condition: Very Good, previous owner's name in pen under inside front cover flap; light edgewear/rubbing.
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This volume of the popular "In Detail" series focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of facade design, external surfaces and building skins - from the selection and use of materials to the advanced technical possibilities available to the architect. Detailed photographs, diagrams and technical information are included for 28 projects from around the world. Out of print.

Condition: Very Good+, previous owner's architecture stamp on front free endpaper; yellowing around interior page edges; a lump is embedded under the front pasted down end paper (see detail photo, likely a publisher's blemish).....
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The Walker Art Center published Design Quarterly from 1954-1993 which covered subjects such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, product and graphic design. This issue focused on the Thirteenth Triennale held in Milan in 1964, an international exhibition of architecture and decorative arts. The United States participated for the first time at the Thirteenth Triennale, a representation organized by the designer Jack Lenor Larsen. With silver metallic printing on the cover and a few interior pages.

Condition: Very Good, very faint scuffing to front cover; soft crease to top corner.....
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This volume of the "Detail" series offers an in-depth presentation of the various types of precast building components – from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems, and skeleton and panel construction all the way to spatial cell constructions. The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs. Section headings include Modular, Skeleton and Panel Systems with constructed exampes in detail of each; a history of prefabrication, Buidling Envelopes, Fundamentals, Materials and recent developments in the field. Out of print.

Condition: Near Fine, yellowing around interior.....
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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 six Philadelphia architects: Robert Geddes, Aldo.....
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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 fountains, a weekend house near Paris.....
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