American Architect Stern is one of the originators and key theorists of the Postmodern movement in architecture. The 33 projects featured here reveal the range of influences that have informed his projects and buildings, while in four reprinted essays he urges contemporary architects to widen their vocabulary, to learn from the past in order to "reunite current production with the traditions that a previous generation tried so hard to subvert." 10.25x12.25". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Robert AM Stern: Selected Works (Architectural Monographs No 17)

Arts & Photography

Robert A.M. Stern

Architecture

Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press

Edgewear to cover, former owner stamp inside front cover.

Raymond M. Hood (Catalogue (Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies))

Rizzoli International Publicat

Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York

New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915

John Massengale

Gregory Gilmartin

Rizzoli International

This highly acclaimed volume is the ultimate reference on this period, closely documents the alternately giddy and depressed decades between the two world wars when New York first transformed itself into a skyscraper city. Every important building of the era is described with vital background information and ample archival photographs.

New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars

Thomas Mellins

Photography & Video

Rizzoli

Highlights the recent work of the distinguished postmodernist architect, including 100 recently built works, important unrealized designs, and projects currently under construction

Buildings and Projects 1981-1985

Examines the role of Classicism in modern architecture, providing a brief discussion of Classicism through history and the changes brought to it by technology, and offering interviews with contemporary Classical architects

Modern Classicism

Raymond W. Gastil

Book by Robert A.M. Stern, David G. De Long, Helen Searing

American Architecture: Innovation and Tradition

David G. De Long

Helen Searing

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

Paul Goldberger

robert-siegel

The Monacelli Press

In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and, above all, to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. This monograph, covering the years 1999?2002, is the fourth in a series on Stern's work. The volume includes more than one hundred projects, including houses and apartments, buildings for cultural institutions and universities, office and commercial structures, government facilities, and designs for products, including fabric and tableware. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Buildings and Projects, 1993 -1998

Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City

David Fishman

Jacob Tilove

History & Criticism

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