Search Results: Architecture from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Tubingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Text in German. Quarto. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. Very light bumping to the corners and tips, with just a hint of rubbing to the dust jacket; else near fine.

Boulogne: L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Le Corbusier to M. Villey, Prefect of the Seine Department, on the half-title, with a typed letter signed on headed paper by Corbusier to Villey accompanying the gift of the book. Dated 6 Octobre 1938, the letter has been fully translated and opens: "For a long time, I've been trying to spread the idea that a new civilization has been born and that this civilization must invent its vital infrastructure." Oblong quarto. Numerous illustrations, many photographic, some colored. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over a cloth spine. The extremities are slightly rubbed; otherwise very good. Le Corbusier's book was based on his "Pavillion des temps nouveaux" at the Paris exhibition "Art et Technique" held in 1937. It contained his ideas for new methods of urban planning and housing, including "immeuble-villa" complexes with communal areas for eating and recreation, yet retaining… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Profusely illustrated with duotone photographs by the author, which are preceded with a foreword by Frank O. Gehry. Signed by Garcetti on the half-title. Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition, first printing with the errata slip laid in. Inscribed by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour on the front flyleaf, alongside two post-it notes inscribed by Venturi. Folio: xvi, [2], 189 p. with numerous photographs, architectural plans, etc. Original gray cloth binding, lettered in gilt, with a color photograph mounted on the front panel. In the original printed glassine dust jacket, which is a bit edgeworn with a few unobtrusive tape mends. Learning from Las Vegas caused a stir in the architectural world upon its publication, as it was hailed by progressive critics for its bold indictment of Modernism, and by the status quo as blasphemous. A split among young American architects occurred during the 1970s, with Izenour, Venturi, Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Moore, and Allan Greenberg defending the book as "The Greys", and Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman,… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Third printing. A critical history of mechanization seen in its historical and sociological aspects, this seminal work is credited with establishing a new kind of historiography. Tall octavo: 743 p. with 501 illustrations. Original blue cloth-covered boards over a red cloth spine, with silver titles. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some general shelfwear.

New York: Rizzoli, 1982. Trade paperback. Near fine. Modern account of the group of English architects, including some of the greatest names of the age, who, as followers of Palladio, in turn helped to shape the course of English architecture during the early seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. Near fine.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Celebrated Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) devoted much of his career to the city of Venice. Famous for public buildings he had designed in his native Vicenza and country villas he had built for wealthy patricians there, he arrived in Venice in the mid-1550s confident of establishing a successful new practice. Yet Palladio's Venetian career never matched his lofty expectations. Failing to achieve the position of state architect or to earn the kinds of commissions to which he was accustomed, he found himself working in a category new to his practice: ecclesiastical architecture. It was his stunning churches, however, including San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore, that established Palladio's lasting renown. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Tracy E. Cooper organizes Palladio's work in Venice according to different types of patrons. She discusses his major monuments as well as… Read More

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed by Dione Neutra on the front flyleaf. The correspondence between Richard and Dione Neutra recounts the difficult early years and the developing philoso­phy of a man who would change the look of architecture. But as Thomas S. Hines, Neutra's biographer, makes clear, the book does far more than trace the devel­opment of two artistic young people: "What you have here is not only valuable material about the making of an archi­tectural career and of a salutary and in­teresting marriage, but documents of Eu­ropean and American social and cultural history in the early twentieth century." Tall octavo: 240 p. with a frontispiece and numerous textual photographs and illustrations. Original gray paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. A crisp and clean copy. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, with a bit of mild sun fading along the spine; else very good… Read More

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A visually sensational study of the rose window both in its own right and as a central feature of Gothic architecture. Quarto: 276 p. with 350 illustrations, 300 in color. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. With 158 illustrations. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with black titles. The ink stamp of Los Angeles architect Harold A. Edmondson and a tipped-in illustration of an iron door knocker appear on the front flyleaf. Some general edgewear to the boards, with a bit of sun fading along the spine; else very good.

Tubingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Text in German. Quarto. Original light blue cloth binding, with black titles. Internally crisp and clean. Light bumping to the tips, with some mild edgewear to the dust jacket.

Santa Monica: Hennessey + Ingalls, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed and dated by Kathleen Tuttle on the title page. Marston (1883-1946) was instrumental in establishing Pasadena, California as a winter resort and then as a thriving community. He and his firm designed nearly 1000 projects, many of which still survive, including cottages and additions to resort hotels, notable commercial and civic buildings such as the Pacific Asia Museum, and the earliest bungalow court. His residential designs span the range of styles from the Arts and Crafts through English Tudor and Monterey Colonial to, most importantly, Mediterranean Revival. Quarto: 162 p. with numerous textual illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Trade paperback. Near fine. Drawing on a wide variety of printed materials and previously unused sources, the author explores twenty of the most important residences built by dignitaries of Church and State. Early plans and drawings and a wealth of photographs aid him in reconstructing the leisure activity of the leaders of Renaissance society in the settings that were built to enhance it." Quarto. Original paper wrappers. The spine is lightly sun faded; else near fine.