Search Results: Architectural Study & Teaching

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990. 323 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to building methods from ancient time to the present day, illustrated throughout with line drawings. In addition, Mr. Salvadori discusses recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildings." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Structures : The beginning of architecture; Function and structure; Architects and engineers; Structure and the layman -- The pyramids : What are they?; The building of the pyramids; The social purpose of the pyramids; The death of the pyramids -- Loads : Dead loads; Live loads; Dynamic loads; Wind loads; Earthquake loads; Thermal and settlement loads -- Materials : Tension and compression; Elasticity and plasticity; Safety factors; Steel; Reinforced concrete; Plastics -- Beams and columns : Newton's laws;… Read More

New York: New Press, 1999. 480 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies Across America, both from The New Press, among many other books and articles. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel's History magazine. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, D.C." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1983. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Throughout the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story of Architecture is the account of how men and women of ingenuity and imagination have taken the most elementary of human needs and transformed them into some of the greatest manifestations of the human civilisation." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002. 346 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Critical reading for the recent building collapse in Florida. "The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes likeIstanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena.Their subjects range from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenonto the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco." - Publisher.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York and Rockport, MA: McGraw-Hill; Rockport Publishers, 1996. Cloth, 191 pages, colour illustrations; Interactive CD Rom Edition. Tight, clean copy. First Printing. Fine DJ. The CD Rom is enclosed, shrinkwrapped. Includes essays on computer-generated architectural renderings by several authors. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "CD-ROM includes : Over 200 hyper-realistic computer generated renderings. -- Over 40 computer generated animations and fly-throughs. -- Additional material on the projects such as sketches, diagrams, presentation drawings, model shots, photographs and wireframes. -- Interactive Architectural Office profiles. -- Technical notes on hardware and software equipment used by architects and renderers. -- Essays by architects in interactive format. -- Newest Apple technology QuickTime VR. -- Demos of leading 3-D and animation packages." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. xiii, 214 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. With illustrations by the author. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. CONTENTS: Structure. The architecture of compression; Beams and frames; Cable and surface; Enclosure. The 'small' house; Larger buildings; Climate services. Engineering for comfort; The 'small' house; Larger buildings; Utility services. Water supply; Drainage; Refuse handling; Electrical supply; Telecommunications; Gas supply; Mechanical transportation; Lighting. Light; Daylighting; Artificial lighting; Acoustics. The nature of sound; Room acoustics; Noise control; Fire safety. Escape; Compartmentation; Protecting the structure; The future?. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1990. v, 149 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Preface to the Third Edition; Acknowledgments; 1. From Cave to Skyscraper; 2. Building a Tent; 3. What Is a Beam?; 4. What Do We Build Structures With?; 5. The Floor of Your Room; 6. A Steel Frame . Made Out of Paper; 7. The Part of the Building You Don't See; 8. What Tornadoes, Earthquakes, and Changes in Temperature Can Do; 9. How To Fight Tornadoes and Earthquakes; 10. Ropes and Cables; 11. Sticks and Stones; 12. Strings and Sticks; 13. Shape and Strength; 14. Barrels, Dishes, Butterflies, Bicycle Wheels, and Eggs; 15. Balloons . and Back to the Tent; Index.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1997. 351 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Cologne: Taschen, 2005. 353 pages, illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm. Text in English, French and German. German translation: Karin Haag; French translation, Jacques Bosser. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2002. Cloth, 311 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Light foxing, dust spotting/edges & endpapers. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "For the first time in history, what were once the disparate schools of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning came together at Harvard University in the 1930s to forge a new vision of modernist thought and practice. By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled, evolved, and was ultimately eclipsed. The book follows the development of the GSD leading up to the pioneering deanship of Joseph Hudnut and his groundbreaking efforts with Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, who came to teach at Harvard between 1937 and 1952. But even before Gropius entered the scene, a modernist agenda… Read More

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1981. Cloth, vii, 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket sunned & worn at extremities. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Introduction, by James Stewart Polshek; History I: The founding of the School, by Steven M. Bedford; William R. Ware and the pursuit of suitability, 1881-1903, by David G. DeLong; History II, 1881-1912, by Steven M. Bedford and Susan M. Strauss; Apropos 1900: New York and the metropolitan ideal, by Robert A. M. Stern and Gregory Gilmartin; History III, 1912-1933, by Susan M. Strauss; Modernism rears its head, the Twenties and the Thirties, by Rosemarie Haag Bletter; History IV, 1933-1935, by Judith Oberlander; In search of an order to the American city, 1893-1945, by M. Christine Boyer; History V, 1935-1959, by Diane Boas; Slouching towards modernity: Talbot Faulkner Hamlin and the architecture of the New Deal, by Kenneth… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954. Cloth, xlii, 778 pages, illustrations, maps, diagrams, plans; 26 cm. Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1938-1939. Good+. Firm binding, unmarked. Light foxing, age toning. Missing DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 3rd. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8vo.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Cloth, 606 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WORLD. Architecture before Greece, by Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman; Greece, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Rome, by Marvin Trachtenberg. PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Islam and the west, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Gothic architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg. PART THREE: THE RENAISSANCE AND THE BAROQUE. The Renaissance/ Isabelle Hyman; The Baroque/ Isabelle Hyman. PART FOUR: THE MODERN WORLD. The eighteenth century, by Marvin Trachtenberg; The nineteenth century, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Modern… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998. 336 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "The most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of twentieth-century architecture ever published, this volume presents a global perspective on some of the most significant works, ideas, and directions over the past one hundred years. With more than three hundred illustrations covering the major landmarks and architects of the century, it will appeal to a wide audience. Exploring cutting-edge ideas, the book also offers the sophisticated professional reader fresh viewpoints. The broad focus of the book is the complex relationship between innovation and tradition and the profound impact of technology on architecture and urbanism throughout the twentieth century. It explores the house and the city; the grand international movements and regional vernacular styles; the forces that built this… Read More

New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 329 pages, dark blue cloth " Louis Sullivan has the distinction of having been, perhaps, the first squarely to face the expressional problem of the steel-framed skyscraper and to deal with it honestly and logically. Later solutions, in so far as they are good, have been along the lines that he, by precept and example, first laid down." - Foreword by Claude Bragdon. Sullivan's first book.

New York: MIT Press / The Architectrual League of New York, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Oblong quarto, 203 pages, cloth. Scarce signed. Inscribed by Joel & Judith Herschman in 1987 on the endpaper to Lila & Ray. Joel contributed Part One of four parts, while Judith provided extraordinary editorial assistance "This book advances two ideas. First, alternative manners of depicting buildings were apparent from the earliest days of photography and continue to this day ... Second, photographers consciously capitalized on the significant interrelationship between any pair of subjects isolated in a picture in order to make critical statements - Introduction". Extensively illustrated, and many of these appear in public for the first time.

Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. 3 volumes; 25 cm. BRAND NEW. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This work explores the science behind some of the worst global disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries, including structural and engineering failures, natural disasters, nuclear and industrial accidents, train derailments, and plane crashes. Entries cover physics, engineering, aerodynamics, chemical reactions, computer science, geology, materials science, and more." - Publisher.. Hardcover. NEW. 8vo.