White, Samuel G.

The Houses of Mckim, Mead & White

New York, Rizzoli, 1998. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with stamped lettering. Glossy color-photographic dust jacket with black and red lettering, 252 pp. color illustrations throughout. With nearly one thousand commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, McKim, Mead & White was the architectural firm of choice of the most prestigious projects of the era, including the redesign of the White House and the Mall in Washington, D.C. and the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities. Among its residential clients were many of the most powerful figures of the Gilded Age-Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Pulitzers-for whom the firm built splendid summer cottages in Newport and throughout Long Island and the Hudson valley and sumptuous town houses in Boston, Washington, Baltimore and New York. More than thirty houses are presented here, their exteriors and interiors elegantly recorded in new color photographs. -Publisher's description. Good+/Good+, the inner hinge paper is cleanly broken BUT the hinge cloth is still firm, so the cover is still tight and firm. A few tiny dings to edges of dustjacket. Contents VG+ .

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Book number: 164453

Catalogue: American Architecture

Keywords: Architects and Firms, Mckim, Mead, & White ; Mckim, Mead, and White ; ; Architects and Firms - American

Wigley, Mark

White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture

Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1995. Softcover. square, white wraps w/ small cover illustration & black printing. 423 pgs w/ bw illustrations. In a daring reconsideration of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical avant-garde. He explores the most obvious but least discussed feature of modern architecture: white walls. Although the white wall exemplifies the stripping away of the decorative costumes worn by nineteenth-century buildings, Wigley argues that modern buildings are not naked. The white wall is itself a form of clothing - the newly athletic body of the building, Like that of its occupants, wears a new kind of garment. Not only did almost all modern architects literally design dresses, Wigley points out, but their arguments for a modern architecture were taken from the logic of clothing reform. Architecture was understood as a form of dress design. Wigley follows the trajectory of this key subtext by closely reading the statements and designs of most of the protagonists, demonstrating that it renders modern architecture's. Relationship with the psychosexual economy of fashion much more ambiguous than the architects' repeated rejections of fashion would suggest. By drawing on arguments about the relationship between clothing and architecture first formulated in the middle of the nineteenth century, modern architects in fact presented a sophisticated theory of the surface, modernizing architecture by transforming the status of the surface. White Walls, Designer Dresses shows how this. Seemingly incidental clothing logic actually organizes the detailed design of the modern building, dictating a system of polychromy, understood as a multicolored outfit. The familiar image of modern architecture as white turns out to be the effect of a historiographical tradition that has worked hard to suppress the color of the surfaces of the buildings that it describes. Wigley analyzes this suppression in terms of the sexual logic that invariably accompanies. Discussions of clothing and color, recovering those sensuously colored surfaces and the extraordinary arguments about clothing that were used to defend them.--FirstSearch. VG-. covers scuffed & marked; edge toned. coffee-like spotting to textblock edges. pgs edge-toned; clean.

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Book number: 180813

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: 20th Century Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architectural Design ; 20th Century Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architectural Design ; ;

Will, Philip Jr and Wolf Von Exckardt

Mid-Century Architecture in America: Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects 1949-1961

Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. Hardcover. light green cloth w/ debossed printing & green spine printing. 254 pgs w/ bw illustrations. black & white illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing. A very nice collection of Mid-Century architecture from churches and homes to public buildings. Wonderfully illustrated. VG/G+ (slight spine lean; upper spine spongy; textblock firm. upper corner bumped & creased; pgs crimped/creased. tanning to upper & lower cover edges. foxing appears to be concentrated to opening & closing pgs. pgs lightly toned. dustjacket has edge-wear; rubbing to corners & spine ends; foxing to back edge w/ tear to upper corner.) .

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Book number: 182116

Catalogue: Designs and Styles - American Architecture

Keywords: Mid-Century Design, Mid-Century Architecture ; Mid-Century Design, Mid-Century Architecture ; ;

Wilson, Forrest

Emerging Form in Architecture: Conversations with Lev Zetlin

Boston, Cahners Books, 1975. Hardcover. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt letting on spine, illustrated dust jacket, 222 (1) pp, profusely illustrated in bw illustrations. This book represents a decade-long effort to describe the work of one of the world's greatest design engineers. -dj. Good+ (foxing spots to outer edges, small tears in bj, tanning to inside front, interior tight) .

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Book number: 173118

Catalogue: American Architecture

Keywords: American Architecture ; Lev Zetlin ; ; Architects and Firms - American

Wreke, Stuart; William Howard Adams

Denatured Visions : Landscape and Culture in the Twentieth Century

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1991. Paperback. Glossy wraps with b/w photograph. 143 pages : illustrations. Contents: Architecture : the natural and the manmade / Vincent Scully -- The garden as cultural object / John Dixon Hunt -- The withering green belt : aspects of landscape in twentieth-century painting / Robert Rosenblum -- In search of the modern landscape / Kennth Frampton -- The American ideology of space / Leo Marx -- From the Virgilian dream to Chandigarh : Le Corbusier and the modern landscape / Caroline Constant -- Whither the garden? / Stephen Krog -- Sources of significance : the garden in our time / Marc Treib -- Earthworks : the landscape after modernism / John Beardsley -- Four models of municipal park design in the United States / Galen Cranz -- Jung and the art of landscape : a personal experience / Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. The past and future park / John B. Jackson -- Vernacular parks / Paul Groth. Very Good. Cover has general wear. Previous owners name on title page. Some pencil markings on interior .

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Book number: 191752

Catalogue: American Architecture

Keywords: American Architecture ; Landscape ; ; General Reference - American Architecture

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Volume 5, 1949-1959

New York, New York, Rizzoli, 1995. Softcover. Color illustrated wraps with black lettering, 352 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. Introduction by Kenneth Frampton. Volume 5 of a 5 volume set from 1949-1959. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. VG .

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Book number: 176399

Catalogue: American Architecture

Keywords: American Architecture ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; ; Architects and Firms - American