The City Observed: New York - Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan (Penguin Handbooks)

Arts & Photography

Paul Goldberger

Architecture

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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 Architecture Matters is to “come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually”—with its impact on our lives. “Architecture begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, “when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.” He shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the “vast, flowing” Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the highly sculptural Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of Sant’Ivo in Rome, where “simple geometries . . . create a work of architecture that embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination.” Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.

Why Architecture Matters (Why X Matters Series)

Yale University Press

Young design partners Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat combine modernist architecture with vibrant primary hues, sensuous materials, sculptural walls, and classic modern furniture. The firm's first monograph presents 20 buildings and projects as well as commentary. The book's innovative graphics and stunning photography reflect Stamberg Aferiat's urbane, cutting-edge approach to design. 160 illus. 100 in color.

Stamberg Aferiat Architecture

Rizzoli

Spectacular views of New York from high above it all. A collection of aerial photographs from then and now.

Above New York

Photography & Video

Cameron Books

Modern to Classic is a rare jewel in the world of architectural monographs, welcoming the reader behind the gates of some of today's most inspiring residential estates. Whether it is a contemporary compound, a French chateau, an Italian villa, an English manor or a Neo-classical estate, the internationally acclaimed architectural firm Landry Design Group has skillfully designed each project with an exquisite attention to detail and a keen understanding of their clients' unique lifestyles. The firm's ability to create within the influence of architectural precedents or to freely invent within contemporary parameters displays a unique talent that has attracted the attention of today's movers and shakers, including such notable clients as Eddie Murphy, Kenny G., Rod Stewart, Sylvester Stallone and others.

MODERN TO CLASSIC: Residential Estates by Landry Design Group

Michael Webb

Richard Landry

ORO Editions

The Gwathmey Siegel design process takes the genre of the house as central to the tradition of architecture and a point of departure for all other building types, directing its investigations of modernist principles toward such prestigious architectural commissions as the addition to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Baker Library for the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University, and the master plan and buildings for Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. Gwathmey Siegel &amp; Associates' approach both assumes and demonstrates the identity of the house as a formal conception of a structure, as well as an organization of program in relation to spaces. Each house is a test case that can be generalized and used to address fundamental architectural problems: history and context; site influences; arrival, procession, and circulation; scale and proportion; light; the relationship between public and private domains; architectural materials; and the technology of construction -- all of which are prioritized by research and interpretive analysis as tools for exploration and design. Gwathmey Siegel: Houses presents twenty-two of the firm's residential projects, from Charles Gwathmey's first house, completed for his parents in 1965, to more recent large-scale projects. This magnificent volume comprehensively documents each house with full-color and duotone photographs and detailed presentation drawings. In addition to generous illustrations and Gwathmey's personal commentary on each house, Gwathmey Siegel: Houses features illuminating essays by architect Robert A. M. Stern and noted architecture critic Paul Goldberger.

Gwathmey Siegel Houses

Robert A.M. Stern

robert-siegel

The Monacelli Press

* Contributions include critical appraisals by Peter Rowe, Michael Sorkin and Michael Webb * Only book to chronicle the work of this highly respected academic and architect * Features the full range of building types present in his work * Detailed descriptions of his most recent completed project - the Vancouver Library, Canada * Contains almost 800 stunning photographs * Detailed descriptions of his most recent completed

Moshe Safdie

Michael Sorkin

Witold Rybczynski

Peter Rowe

wiley

Through the brilliant photography of Richard Schulman and an insightful introduction by New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger, Portraits of the New Architecture celebrates the 50 architects who have reinvented architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries. From Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei to Richard Meier and Daniel Liebeskind, Portraits emphasizes the magnetism of the architects as well as their creations. With highly personalized representations of the architects themselves and images and design plans of their best work, the book explores the architect-as-superstar phenomenon: what does it mean that architecture today has become a style statement?

Portraits Of The New Architecture

Assouline

A limited edition, hardcover book published in 1990 by l'ArcaEdizioni to mark the opening of Bulgari's [then] new NYC Fifth Avenue store designed by Italian architect Piero Sartogo. Text by Paul Goldberger and Richard Reid. Thin oversized hardcover 13 5/8 x 9 3/4", 62 pp., gray textured paper covered boards w/ an image of the Bulgari store tipped on; fully illus. throughout in color, printed on glossy paper.

730 Fifth Avenue, New York

Richard Reid

L'Arca Edizioni

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