Architecture / Individual Architect from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1996. viii, 136 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held aty Williams College Museum of Art, April 6 and June 9, 1996, and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. CONTENTS: Kahn's graphic modernism, by Michael J. Lewis; Sketching abroad, by Eugene J. Johnson; In the… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Books, 2001. 194 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man - even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore -… Read more about this item

New York and Scottsdale, AZ: Rizzoli; Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1992. 352 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Creased front cover. *** Please note: Volume One only *** "Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright and is currently a trustee and Director of the Archives for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation… Read more about this item

Rochester, Kent: Grange Books, 2000. Pictorial boards, 175 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Bramhall House, 1955. Cloth, 269 pages, illustrations, portrait, plans; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket toned, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Architecture presents man; From generals to particulars; Obstacles and protests; The nature of materials; Some case histories; Out of the ground into the light; Where principle is put… Read more about this item

New York and London: Universe; Troika, 2002. 221 pages, colour illustrations; 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean text. Date stamp Received inkstamped/Contents page, otherwise unmarked. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Rockwell Group turns dreams into space. From steel and stone, color and light, Rockwell Group creates environments that are at once destinations… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company; A Bulfinch Press Book, 1995. ix, 270 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "While Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) stands among America's great innovators, his story is one of both enormous achievement and miserable failure,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Cloth, 152 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Essays in Art and Culture Series. Tight, clean copy. First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Between 1896 and 1906 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) produced a series of buildings and interiors in and around Glasgow of such startling invention that he immediately established… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1998. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In the first decades of the 20th century, Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene almost single-handedly… Read more about this item

New York: Monacelli Press, 2013. Cloth, 222 pages, colour illustrations; 29 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. "Beautiful photographs with charming text detail the exotic and impeccably styled vacation homes of some of the world's… Read more about this item

New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1997. 330 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. The architect Stanford White was the great-grandfather of the author. "The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded 'the trial of the… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965. 112 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. MIT 21. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Missing blank flyleaf. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Discoveries Ser., 1996. 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 18 cm. First published, Gallimard, 1993. Translated from the French. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a pioneer of modern architecture. He focused his seemingly unlimited creative energy on diverse media and fields of endeavor: architecture, city planning,… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library; A Meridian Book, 1970. 255 pages, illustrations, plans, portrait; 21 cm. F1035. Tight, clean copy. Small open tear/back cover. Browning. City planning. . Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1974. 65 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Randell L. Makinson and five other members of the Docent Council of the Gamble House, including Jamess Gamble. A very good copy with light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1979. xx, [1], 232 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Published in association with an exhibition originated by Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Dust spotting/top edge. Clean inside copy. CONTENTS: The development of ornament;… Read more about this item

New York: Acanthus Press, 2008. Cloth, 318 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 x 26 cm. Please note: Volume One only: Inventors of Tradition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

New York: Monacelli Press, 2008. Pictorial boards, 207 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. A Buell Center/Columbia book of architecture. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Encounters with Philip Johnson: a partial memoir, by Robert A. M. Stern; Upbringing; MoMA and the international style; The right; Architecture school and military service;… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971. 101 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. An exhibition organized by David Gebhard and Harriette Von Breton for the Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 23 to December 22, 1971. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: George Wittenborn, 1966. Cloth, 71 pages, illustrations, plans; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette (L'Arbresle, France).. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.