Search Results: Architecture / Domestic from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Cologne: Taschen, 2015. 2 volumes (719 pages), colour illustrations; 33 cm. Text in English, German, French. Both volumes in fine condition. Large-format edition. Dust jackets protected in mylar covers. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991. Cloth, 256 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Robert A. M. Stern is one of the country's most prolific and inventive architects. Working within a historical tradition of domestic architecture, he has created rich and evocative designs that call on the forms of the past and the values of American culture while responding to contemporary needs. The American Houses of Robert A.M. Stern presents thirty-one of his most significant houses in the United States. This diverse group, which ranges in location from the seaside to the mountains to the city, displays the important characteristics of Stern's architecture: a sympathetic relationship to the site, a richness of plan and spatial… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982. xx, [104] pages, illustrations; 32 cm. Illustrations from "Artistic Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture: With Instances of Country Clubhouses," 1886-87. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Reproduces all of Sheldon's fascinating and historically important photographs and plans for a total of 97 buildings (93 houses, 4 casinos) built during the 1880s. Adds a new, thoroughly accurate text by Arnold Lewis. Approx. 200 illustrations." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xvi, 281 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 1998. Cloth, 96 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Architecture and Design Library. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Random House, 1975. Cloth, 154 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A nice copy, well-illustrated. Gothic Revival architecture in the U.S.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli, 1995. Cloth, 300 pages, illustrations, plans (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: The modern American house; From the Brown decades to the fragmented metropolis, 1869-1929; Survival through design: the triumph of the modern American house, 1929-1945; Blueprint for modern living: the American house and the Pax Americana, 1945-1965; Complexity and contradiction: the late-modern house, 1965-1994.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Vintage Books; Random House, 1975. 154 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. V-570. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Another copy available. First paperback edition. Well-illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Vintage Books; Random House, 1975. 154 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. V-570. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Well-illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Cloth, 352 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates (paintings, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, sculpture, etc.). With 542 plates, 251 in color.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1980. Cloth, 224 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. A profusely-illustrated survey which chiefly focuses on the Arts and Crafts movement in Great Britain. "This book gives an account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the movement which began in England and quickly influenced Europe and America. It highlights the contradictions they tried to resolve in accommodating or rejecting the developments of the new machine age, and in meeting the cost of materials and craftsmanship which for them to work mainly for a wealthy elite class." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 1. Once upon a time; 2. Gathering grounds; 3. The prophet; 4. Lamplighters; 5. The guilds are forged; 6. The guide; 7. The explorer; 8. The pathfinder; 9. Into the country; 10. The lost city; 11. The attempt on the summit; 12. The descent; 13.… Read More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ix, 208 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. "This text is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how that housing fits comfortably into our communities. It is a non-technical analysis for everyone interested in the creation of affordable housing. / Sam Davis is Professor and Chair of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and editor of The Form of Housing (1977). He is Principal of Davis and Joyce Architects and has won numerous design awards and housing competitions." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Hearst Books, 1998. 191 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. Reprint, 1987. ca. 500 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean inside copy. Top edge mildly soiled, light edgewear to wraps. With more than 430 built designs.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Oak Brook, IL: Ashley Group, 2003. 128 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards and DJ. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Cologne: Taschen, 2005. 353 pages, illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm. Text in English, French and German. German translation: Karin Haag; French translation, Jacques Bosser. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Oak Brook, IL: Ashley Group, 2003. 128 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: American Legacy Press, 1982. xvi, 526 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Berlin: B_books, 2006. 257 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. MetroZones, 7. Text in German/Text Deutsch. WIE NEU. Tight, clean copy. Architecture utilizing shipping containers. Profusely illustrated. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

San Francisco: Soma Books, 1999. 144 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Photography by Andrew Wood. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Subtitle on wraps: Natural Balance in Eastern Design.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.