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Retrospecta '02-'03

2003 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New Haven, Yale School of Architecture. 2003. (ISBN: 0971826595). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 160 pages; thoroughly illustrated, color and b&w. Fine.

World Architecture. No. 20, November 1992

ANONYMOUS · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Cheerman Ltd. 1992. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 96 pages. Memoirs of Pierre Vago; Biographical sketch of Vago; archive of Vago projects. Also, The Miracle of Jena, geodesic domes predating Buckminster Fuller. Carl Zeiss works; Cranfield; Young Rio architects; S...

Water and Architecture

MOORE, CHARLES W.; JANE LIDZ (PHOTOGRAPHS) · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810939754). Cloth, 4to. 224 pages; 180 illustrations, including 130 color photographs. Chapters with b&w illustrations address diverse design elements then are followed by a section of color photographs that illustrate th...

The New Japanese Architecture

BOGNAR, BOTOND; JOHN MORRIS DIXON (INTRODUCTION); HAJIME YATSUKA AND LYNNE BRESLIN (ESSAYS) · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Rizzoli. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0847812251). Cloth, 4t. 224 pages; numerous illustrations displaying the work of 23 architects preceded by two essays. Fine/Very Good.

A Treasury of Early American Homes

PRATT, RICHARD · 1949 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill. 1949, First Edition. Cloth, Folio. 136 pages; filled with color photography. Houses in New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana. Originally appeared in installments in the Ladies' Home Journal. Clean and tight:...

The Victorian Country House - (Revised and Enlarged Edirion)

GIROUARD, MARK · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1979. (ISBN: 0300-02390-1). Cloth, Thick 4to. 467 pages; 427 b&w, 33 color plates. Architectural and social history authored with wit by an architectural historian. Small damp stain at the inside corner of some late pages not affecting text or...

Cast-Iron Architecture in New York: A Photographic Survey

GAYLE, MARGOT; EDMUND V. GILLON, JR. (PHOTOGRAPHS) · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Dover. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-486-22980-7). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 190 pages; 217 b&w illustrations. Some of the great buildings of Lower Manhattan: some gone; some restored. Clean and tight. Very Good.

The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience

IERLEY, MERRITT · 1999 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Three Rivers Press. 1999, First Paperback Edition. (ISBN: 0-609-80752-8). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 287 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. Household infrastructure: how it works and how it's changed. Science, technology, architecture, social, political and ...

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

GILL, BRENDAN · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, G.P Putnam's Sons. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-399-13232-5). quarter cloth / paper boards, 8vo. 544 pages; many b&w photographs. An excellent biography by the author a long-time writer for The New Yorker who covered architecture as well as writing poetry, fiction, ...

Audubon House: Building the Environmentally Responsible, Energy-Efficient Office

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY; CROXTON COLLABORATIVE, ARCHITECTS · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, John Wiley & Sons. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-471-02496-1). Paper boards, 8vo. 208 pages; b&w illustrations. The story of the conversion of 700 Broadway, a "19th-century masterpiece", into one of the most environmentally advanced buildings ever designed, and at ma...

Modern Classicism

STERN, ROBERT A.M.; RAYMOND W. GASTIL · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Rizzoli. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8478-0848-3). Cloth, Square 4to. 296 pages; 304 illustrations in color and b&w. Not a history of Modern Classicism but an examination of the importance of Classicism and its role of influence on design movements, including Moder...

Renaissance Architecture

MURRAY, PETER AND LINDA · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Electa/Rizzoli. 1985. (ISBN: 0-8478-0474-7). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 4to. 196 pages; 351 illustrations, some color, most b&w photographs. Short gift inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright throughout; tight binding. Very Good.

Architecture Anyone?

HUXTABLE, ADA LOUISE · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

New York, Random House. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-394-52909-x). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 345 pages; b&w illustrations. A collection of essays by this critic whose name is synonymous with architecture. She covers buildings, cities, people, history; enjoyments, e...

Philip Johnson: Life and Work

SCHULZE, FRANZ · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-394--57204-1). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 465 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. Biography from childhood on; "living history" of modern and postmodern architecture. Very Good/Very Good.

Perspecta 29 - the Yale Architecture Journal

0 · Ultramarine Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. (ISBN: 0-262-54092-4). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 100 pages; abundantly illustrated. Clean and tight. Very Good.

Tall Buildings

RILEY, TERENCE (PREFACE); GUY NORDENSEN (ESSAY) · 2003 · Ultramarine Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87070-095-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 191 pages; numerous illustrations. 25 projects are featured; located worldwide. Fine.

John Soane

SUMMERSON, JOHN; DAVID WATKIN; G.-TILMAN MELLINGHOFF · 1983 · Ultramarine Books

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

London, Academy Editions. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-312-048130). Cloth, 4to. 123 pages; over 200 illustrations, including 64 in color , 3 four-page foldouts. List of buildings; bibliography; Summaries in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Gift inscription on front free e...

Manhattan Architecture

BERENHOLTZ, RICHARD (PHOTOGRAPHS); ELLEN POSNER (INTRODUCTION); DONALD MARTIN REYNOLDS (TEXT) · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Prentice Hall. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-13-551987-x). Cloth, Folio. 256 pages; numerous color photographs of Manhattan buildings, closeups of decorative details, great rooms and other indoor spaces; a gorgeous book. Very Good/Very Good.

Seven Treasure Cities of Latin America

WHYTE, BERTHA KITCHELL · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, October House. 1964, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 286 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. The "artistic survivals" of the Spanish colonial period, when native people and native resources and wealth were exploited to create cities, paintings, decorative arts and other cu...

Persian Architecture: The Triumph of Form and Color

POPE, ARTHUR UPHAM · 1965 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York, George Braziller. 1965, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 288 pages; 404 illustrations, 33 color. Persian architecture as a fine art tracing its history and development, meanngs and importance of forms and colors. The book was completed when the country was under the rule o...