Centerbrook Architects' monograph provides an illustrated in-depth portrayal of the influences that have gone some way to help make buildings of great variation, appeal, and timelessness. Featured aspects include villageness, music, sacred space, transformers, celebration spaces, silhouette, scale, materials and color, hardware store technology, simplicity, craft, ornament, clients, televised design-a-thons, landscape, spaces between buildings, ...

Designed to celebrate the coming of the new millennium, Images' Millennium Series is a large-format publication, filled with photographs which trace historically the work of a firm. Changes that have occurred in design philosophy are written about as well as illustrated to demonstrate how each firm has adapted to changes of the times. An elegant publication that attempts to do justice to the tenacity and design skills of some of the world's ...

By the year 2025, 4/5ths of the world's population will live in cities. The New Urbanists are attempting to ensure that civic environments will be developed along traditional lines, using their image of the future as a strongly reconfigured, sanitized version of the past.<P>The PS building represents the work of one of the foremost New Urbanists, Eric Owen Moss. Once an obsolete industrial building. Moss has redesigned it to become the ...

The Tai Soo Kim Partners' monograph covers the work of a firm established in 1970. A wide portfolio of projects are featured, including the corporate, cultural, educational and commercial. With offices in both the U.S. and Korea, Tai Soo Kim's work is widely recognized for its unique simplicity, elegance and suitability to the natural and cultural conditions of a place. ...

The massive forms of the Barnsdall House, with its sloping walls, inward-looking courts, ponds and flat roofs, suggest a break from the Prairie House tradition and a new mood of robust architectural optimism. ...

For Wright, decorative objects were few in number but were designed to complement the architecture. Choose just a few things, he suggested, and go to the woods and fields for colors and materials that bring nature home. The beautiful examples shown here include Wright's tall-back chairs, ingenious built-in pieces, art glass windows, lamps, vases, and china. ...

Meet Marshall Erdman, immigrant, builder, philanthropist, father and friend. From his work with Frank Lloyd Wright to his unique Middleton Hills neighborhood concept, Erdman strove for perfection and beauty, and dedicated his life to achieving it. Come along on this journey that examines his life. Proceeds from the sale of the book benefit the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. ...

With nearly 1,000 commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, McKim, Mead & White was the architectural firm of choice for the most prestigious projects of the beaux-arts era. Among its residential clients were many of the most powerful figures of the Gilded Age: the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, the Pulitzers.
In this condensed edition of the acclaimed Rizzoli original of 1998 the reader will find more than thirty houses presented, the ...

Paul Andreu's architecture features some of the largest airport designs in the world, but his work is not confines to such high-level specialization. Thanks to his experience working on major projects for Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and others in Nice, Seoul and many other places, Andreu has developed a global view of architecture exploiting the latest technology to the full.
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Swatt Architects is an award-winning San Francisco Bay area firm known for fusing a modernist sensibility with the particular challenges of California landscapes to create unique spaces for living. The firm has been recognised internationally for creating distinctive, livable modern architecture that emphasizes the creative use of structure, elegant detailing that expresses the nature of material, and spatial continuity and transparency that ...