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DAKOTA: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S BEST-KNOWN APARTMENT BUILDING
Written by Alpern, Andrew
The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word.
URBANISM OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Written by Levine, Neil
A landmark book on the architect's designs for remaking the modern city This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism.
MY VENICE AND OTHER ESSAYS
Written by Leon, Donna
Donna Leon's wildly popular novels starring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti have been praised for their intricate plots and gripping narratives, but also for their insight into the culture, politics, family life, and history of Venice, one of the world's most treasured cities and Leon's home for over thirty years.
QUOTABLE FEYNMAN
Written by Feynman, Richard P
A treasure-trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from beloved physicist Richard P. Feynman "Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P.
VENICE DISPUTED: MARC'ANTONIO BARBARO AND VENETIAN ARCHITECTURE, 1550-1600
Written by Howard, Deborah
In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, engineers, and the public.
ART IN AMERICA 1945-1970: WRITINGS FROM THE AGE OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, POP ART, AND MINIMALISM
Written by Various
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art--in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there
PLACE IN THE COUNTRY
Written by Sebald, W G
A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English. This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G.
SAARINEN HOUSES
Written by Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa
They are architecture's most famous father-son duo: Eero, the younger Saarinen, designer of such masterpieces as the TWA Terminal Building at Kennedy Airport, and his father Eliel, celebrated for triumphs such as the art nouveau railway station in Helsinki. Lesser known, but no less impressive, are their houses, which, regardless of style, share a belief in architecture as a total work of art.
BUILDINGS AND DESIGNS OF ANDREA PALLADIO
Written by Scamozzi, Ottavio Bertotti
Andrea Palladio is unquestionably the most important architect in the Western world: his carefully proportioned, pedimented designs are the foundations for most single-family homes and public buildings in the United States and Europe.
LE CORBUSIER REDRAWN
Written by Park, Steven
Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was the most significant architect of the twentieth century. Every architecture student examines the Swiss master's work. Yet, all too frequently, they rely on reproductions of faded drawings of uneven size and quality.
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