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The 1955 first edition of Thomas Church's influential book of modernist garden design. Inscribed by Church on the title page.
Condition: Good, lacking the dust jacket; edgewear and some soiling to boards/covers; wear at cover corners with cardboard exposed; long tear to last page (S-Z of index).
Item #1421
A collection of 22 issues of the New York architecture magazine known as ANY. A predecessor to the journal Log (see our other listing for a complete set of that journal), it shares the same editor in Cynthia Davidson. The editorial board has included Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, Sylvia Lavin, Sanford Kwintner and others. The collection includes issues 0, 2, 3, 5, 10-27, and 90 (appearing inbetween issues 14 and 15 as an ode to Philip Johnson on his 90th birthday). Issues 19/20 and 25/26 are double issues but still.....
Item #1458
A complete run of 51 issues of Log: Observations on Architecture and the Contemporary City, spanning the years 2003-2021 and including issues number 1-51 (issues #52 and 53 were published in Fall and Summer 2021). With extras/inserts included, such as the postcards produced for various issues, 3-D glasses (issue 17), and a rear view mirror air freshener tree (issue 8), although it is unknown if all extras/inserts are included. Most issues out of print. Some issues with the previous owner's architecture company stamp to first page (see image)...
Item #1457
The rare Winter/Spring 1980 "Le Corbusier" issue of Oppositions magazine, MIT's Institute for Architecture and Urbans Studies journal of ideas and criticism in architecture. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, drawings, plans and schematics, and including texts and essays by Kenneth Frampton, Mary McLeod, Stanilaus von Moos, Richard A. Moore, Stuart Cohen, Steven Hurtt, Alexander C. Gorlin and others.
Condition: Very Good, scuffing to covers and along edges of paper wraps; art school library stamp to front cover (no other library markings).
Item #1430
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.....
Item #624
