Individual Architect category: 202 books
by Despina Stratigakos
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become....
by Howard Hibbard
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 1990
Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy. He has left his greatest mark on Rome where Papal patronage provided him with enormous architectural commissions.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House
The Illustrated Story of an Architectural Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Frank Lloyd Wright firmly believed that "life could be formed anew if new form could be brought to its setting, architecture." His revolt against customary architectural design was shared by rugged individualist Fred C. Robie, who chose Wright to build his dream house in 1908. In this painstakingly...
by Meryle Secrest
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson (“A triumph”—Washington Post; “A perfect riot”—Michael Holroyd; “Astonishing”—London Sunday Times) and of Kenneth Clark (“Splendid, enthralling”—The Wall Street Journal) gives us now a complete and complex portrait of an American...
by Dale Allen Gyure
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Florida Southern College in Lakeland boasts the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world. With eleven buildings planned and designed by Wright, the campus forms a rich tableau for examining the architect's philosophy and design practice.
In this fully illustrated...
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper...
by Marshall B. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Thomas Jefferson's influence is evident throughout the nation he helped found - from the democratic ideals he set down in the Declaration of Independence to the expansion of America's borders through the Louisiana Purchase. But the more tangible examples of his creative genius lie in his architecture...
Saint John's Abbey Church
Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the 1950s the brethren at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint John the Baptist in Collegeville, Minnesota—the largest Benedictine abbey in the world—decided to expand their campus, including building a new church. From a who’s who of architectural stars—such as Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Pietro...
by Chris Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The work of late commercial architect Wayne McAllister (1907-2000) is responsible for much of the character of Southern California today. His Fred-and-Ginger nightclubs and glinting-steel-and-blazing-neon circular drive-ins brought Hollywood to life. His Sands Hotel in Las Vegas became the home of...
Wright Sites
A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan,...
by Mark Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects. His landmark buildings include the Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ, Scientist. His emphasis on an open use of natural materials marks him as a pioneer in sustainable architecture, or “green design.” Maybeck's...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Louis Kahn's monolithic buildings defied convention and defined an era. Like the architect himself, his structures were both complex and simplistic, expressing an underlying strength while displaying a singularly bold vision. Here, in this short-form book by award-winning author Charles L. Mee Jr., is Kahn's extraordinary story.
Frank Furness
Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together...
The Noble Room
The Inspired Conception and Tumultuous Creation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
"When I finished Unity Temple, I had it. I knew I had the beginning of a great thing, a great truth in architecture." —Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright's design for Unity Temple was radical in its simplicity—a monolithic concrete exterior—yet sublime in its detail and revolutionary...