Individual Architect category: 202 books
Mies van der Rohe
A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised edition, three times the length of the original...
Years with Frank Lloyd Wright
Apprentice to Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
From the special vantage point of a former apprentice who for nine years lived and worked under "the fury and wrath of genius," Edgar Tafel presents a wonderfully revealing portrait of America's greatest architect. Unpredictable, cantankerous, a striking figure with white hair, cape and...
by Le Corbusier
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond...
Latin American Modern Architectures
Ambiguous Territories
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
This lively text provides a candid inquiry into the contemporary means by which architects get work and (for better or worse) become famous.
In response to the reciprocal relationship between publicity and everyday architectural practice, this book examines the mechanisms by which architects...
Hassan Fathy and Continuity in Islamic Arts and Architecture
The Birth of a New Modern
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect known for his recognition of the potential of vernacular forms as a vital force in contemporary architectural design, sought to integrate the traditions of Islamic art with his modern visions for living. Guided by Fathy's principles, Ahmad Hamid, an architect who...
by Werner Hegemann, Elbert Peets
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment. Drawing upon the ideals that inspired the great Roman architect, it promotes the Vitruvian maxims of longevity, beauty, and commodity. It also defines the thinking behind...
Mall Maker
Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and...
The Architecture of William Nichols
Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses--the University...
Addison Mizner
The Architect Whose Genius Defined Palm Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner
* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida
* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton
* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm Beach
Addison...
Victor Lundy
Artist Architect
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
If you're looking for something new under the midcentury sun, Victor Lundy (born 1923) is a real find, an important yet underappreciated figure in the history of American architecture. Trained in both the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, he built an impressive practice ranging from small-scale residential...
by John Lloyd Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Charming, readable memoir, by his son, of Wright as architect of genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, an extremely rare work designed and printed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "...unconventional, amusing and on the whole revealing." — Book Week. 10 halftones.
The Fellowship
The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also...
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II
From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and...