Architecture / Criticism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Milan: Skira, 2009. 319 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits; 25 cm. Accompanies the exhibition of the same title held 20 May to 12 October 2009 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, and 17 September 2010 to 20 February 2011 at The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. "Looks at the pivotal role… Read more about this item

London and New York: Architectural Design; St. Martin's Press, 1982. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Architectural design; 5-6, 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "The narrative of recent architecture tells how Post-Modernism, was born to disreputable Modernist parents, left home and took to the road, how he went to Shingle-style and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1986. xix, 345 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Revised and updated collection of articles originally published in the New York Times. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Cautionary Tales of the Building Art. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. xxi, 262 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Despite increasing popular attention to issues of diversity and under-representation in architecture, power and control within the profession remain in the hands of white men. Of all the creative forms, architecture remains the least accessible to the inhabitants of deprived urban neighborhoods.… Read more about this item

London and New York: Verso, 2011. Cloth, xiii, 302 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips mildly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture. While architects such as Zaha Hadid… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2012. 106 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. GROUND UP Journal issue 01 was edited, designed and produced by graduate students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1960. 331 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Translation of: De architectura. With illustrations and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. "The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation." - Publisher..… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. viii, 131 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. xvii, 273 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. xiii, 388 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. Another copy available. "A philosophical and chronological history of architecture examines natural and man-made structures from ancient Greece to present-day Manhattan." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. xv, 301 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. This is a translation of the eighth edition of Urbanisme, a landmark work in the development of modern city planning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

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… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. xx, 270 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. "Over the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have been turned over to developers and planners. Norman… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1990. x, 180 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corner crease/back cover. "This book explores and explains the fundamentals of interior design. Because it does not emphasize current trends and fashion, its value will be long lasting. / Stanley Abercrombie, author of Architecture as Art, is chief editor of… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1996. 320 pages, illustrations, plans; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Top edge lightly soiled. "A collection of 24 essays by women historians, theorists, educators and practitioners on issues in architecture and urbanism. They examine assumptions such as that man builds and woman inhabits, that man is outside and woman is inside,… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. 103 pages, [79] pages of plates; 23 cm. Rizzoli essays on architecture, 3. Translated from the Italian. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. CONTENTS: Neoclassicism and architecture in France in the second half of the eighteenth century; A bourgeois career; Projects and buildings; Scientific thought and architectural language in Durand's theoretical… Read more about this item

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. 32 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Out of place: contemporary art and the architectural uncanny," held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 8 to August 11, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Fourteen emerging artists: Miriam Backstrom, Monica Bonvinci, Johanna Bresnick, Miles… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2004. Cloth, 240 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards & dust jacket. Protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "New Classicism provides an in-depth look at a form of design that appeared lost forever with the… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Cloth, xii, 290 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Creating the North American Landscape Ser. Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson… Read more about this item

New York: American Craft Museum, 1988. 52 pages; 28 cm. Exhibition held at the American Craft Museum, New York, NY. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Includes commentary, essays and an exhibition checklist.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.