"A growing movement to replace charmless suburban sprawl with civilized, familiar places that people love." So wrote "Time Magazine" in a recent article about Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Peter Calthorpe, leaders of the dynamic urban design revolution coming to be known as the New Urbanism. Their breakthrough planning concepts propose ...
From fairy-tale castles to extraordinary buildings designed by the world's most distinguished architects, The Walt Disney Company has created exciting and influential architecture. The result, beautiful illustrated in this book is "architecture with a plot", a new approach to designing buildings.
Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. "Buildings and Towns" explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and ...
Distinguished by long, sloping gables, horizontal lines, and a continuous shingle covering on the exterior, the Shingle Style's essential objective was the creation of expanding, flowing space. The Shingle Style embodied intellectual pluralism and cultural democracy—ideals fundamental to American belief and developed quickly and richly. After ...
Robert A. M. Stern is one of America's most prominent and respected architects. His recent work, which includes large country houses, city apartments, a number of projects for universities, and important international commissions, is presented through detailed descriptions and generous illustrations. Featured are Stern's works for Mexx ...
As the definitive study of the complex inspirations and cultural influences that were fused in the Shingle Style of wooden suburban and resort buildings of the period 1872 to 1889, Mr. Scully's book has received much critical acclaim.
Years of research and travel were devoted to this book. Scores of sites were restudied on the spot, including many lesser-known sanctuaries throughout the Hellenic world. The study includes reconstruction drawings, plans, and maps along with its richly illustrated, detailed discussions of major sites. The 1969 revised edition, in which Professor ...
In this pioneering study, art historian Vincent Scully explores the inhabitants' understanding of the natural world in an entirely original way---by observing and analyzing the complex yet visible relationships between the landscape of mountain and desert, the ancient ruins and the pueblos, and the ceremonial dances that take place within them. To ...
Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways - with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs - Scully has ...
In only ten years of practice, Alexander Gorlin has become the architect of choice among high-profile clients in the media and fashion industries. This monograph is the first to feature exclusively the young designer's work. Full-color photographs and plans showcase 28 of Gorlin's buildings and projects in design, while three essays examine his ...
American architect Louis I. Kahn left behind a legacy of great buildings: the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; and the Indian Institute for Management in Ahmedabad. Yet he also left behind an equally important legacy of designs that were never realized. This exceptional volume unites those ...
This elegant publication combines the work of the students and faculty of the school of architecture at the University of Miami with a text by the school's distinguished visiting professor, Vincent Scully. The school is known for its spectacular analytical and whimsical drawings of architecture, urban planning, and landscape design. These ...
Scully is a pioneer of 20th century architecture. This volume is the grand sum of his career. It is not only the history of great edifices, but also a book that explores the unique dialogue between human beings and their buildings and the natural world. 500 color/b&w photos.
This book describes the design and development of 14 denser than typical projects that range from single-family subdivisions to downtown high-rise apartments, illustrating new urbanism, transit-oriented development, mixed-income and mixed-use housing types, urban infill, and adaptive use.
Is modernism fundamentally hostile to nature? How have the radical transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries affected our attitude toward nature and impacted the landscape, as seen in the relationship of modern building to the land, and in the parks and gardens of this past century? Proceeding from the premise that how we shape our physical ...
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