Individual Architect category: 202 books
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Fourth Edition
A Complete Catalog
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years ago, researchers and enthusiasts are still uncovering...
by Carmen Espegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Heroines of Space looks at four groundbreaking women architects: Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky, and Charlotte Perriand. You'll see the parts they played in the history of modern architecture and get a clearer view of the recent past. The book explains the social and historical...
Designing Detroit
Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert...
Plagued by Fire
The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank...
When Architecture Meets Activism
The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban...
Architecture That Speaks
S. C. P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path,...
Glorious Visions
John Soane's Spectacular Theater
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The...
by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Although he was known in his own time as a leader of the so-called Romanesque Revival, the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86) is today regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture — a man who, in the words of Lewis Mumford, “created out of a confusion which was actually...
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III
From Antoni Gaudí to Maya Lin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
An invaluable guide to lives and work of Frank Gehry, Atoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and other important figures of 20th and 21st century architecture.
Martin Filler's "contribution to both architecture criticism and general readers' understanding is invaluable,"...
Gibbs' Book of Architecture
An Eighteenth-Century Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
One of England's most respected and influential architects, James Gibbs was born in Scotland, studied in Rome, and left a legacy of design the world will treasure forever. His legendary 1728 folio, a sprawling gallery of Gibbs's magnificent drawings, perspectives, and blueprints, is a brilliant testimony...
The Architecture of James Stirling and His Partners James Gowan and Michael Wilford
A Study of Architectural Creativity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century. This book provides the most comprehensive critical survey of Stirling's work to date, charting the development of his ideas from his formative years, through his partnership with James Gowan, on to his period...
Crisis of the Object
The Architecture of Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2006
Looking back over the twentieth century, Hartoonian discusses the work of three major architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi, in reference to their theoretical positions and historicizes present architecture in the context of the ongoing secularization of the myths surrounding...
Essays On Thermodynamics
Architecture and Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Essays on Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty, is a book that unfolds arguments and designs around the concept of "thermodynamic beauty". This new aesthetic category opens up new and unexpected directions to the architect's work, connecting architecture and thermodynamics without giving...
No Nails, No Lumber
The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Imagine a house constructed in less than forty-eight hours, without using lumber or nails, that is more resistant to fire, earthquakes, and hurricanes than any traditionally built structure. This may sound like the latest development in prefab housing or green architecture, but the design dates back...