Fara, Amelio.

La Metropoli Difesa: Architettura Militare Dell'Ottocento Nelle Citta Capitali D'Italia. Con Un Racconto Di Daniele Del Giudice.

Rome: Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito - Ufficio Storico, 1985. 1985. - 4to, red cloth (bumped); titled in gilt on front cover & spine; in creamy tan dw (bumped with slight indentations on rear panel; glue from price sticker on spine); titled in red with vignette in black on front panel. xxii & 282pp. Profuse B&W and color illustrations, mostly full-page. Very good.

Text in Italian.

Military architecture of the 19th century in Italian cities. Very good .

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Book number: 573

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; ART; MILITARY; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLANS; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; AMELIO FARA; DANIELE DEL GIUDICE; ITALIAN; ROME; ITALY.

Ferguson, Francis

Architecture, Cities and the Systems Approach

New York: George Braziller, (1975). (1975). New York: George Braziller, (1975). (1975). Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with a very light stain to the top edge of the front cover. A tiny area of the front edge of the rear cover is chipped. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the top edge of the rear panel slightly chipped & a chip out of the rear fold. [viii] & 168 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings & diagrams. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper & there is very minor soiling to the fore-edge. Good in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition. Good .

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Book number: 22528

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; URBAN ARCHITECTURE; URBAN PLANNING; ARCHITECTURE, CITIES AND THE SYSTEMS APPROACH; FRANCIS FERGUSON; PLANNING; DESIGN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CORPORATE CLIENTS; COMMUNITY CLIENTS; DIAGRAMS; DRAWINGS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(Forester, Russell; 1920-2002). (Zakian, Michael; Cohen, Alan J. J.)

Russell Forester: Unauthorized Autobiography. Track 16 Gallery March 15 - May 24 - 1997... . Smart Art Press Volume 3, Number 28. (Catalog). Signed by Russell Forester

(Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1997). 1997). (Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1997). 1997). Fine. - Small quarto [7-1/2 inches square], softcover bound in color pictorial folding wrappers. 90 pages with the text printed in white on silver stock. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Signed in full by Russell Forester on the front fold of the wrappers and numbered "111/500". The text includes an essay "Russell Forester: Art Beyond Architecture" by Michael Zakian and "Filmic Dissolves on Russell Forester" by Alan J. J. Cohen. After serving in the Army Corps of Engineers in the mid-1940s, where he worked as a draftsman for architect Lloyd Ruocco, Forester began working as a freelance architectural designer in 1948. In 1950, he began studying architecture at the Chicago Institute of Design, where he was mentored by Mies Van Der Rohe. He completed several modernist buildings in La Jolla, Calif. before receiving his architectural license in 1960. Among his well- known designs are the Peterson/Russell Forester Residence in Point Loma [1965], the Urey Residence in La Jolla [1954] and the Jack-in-the-Box restaurant in San Diego [1951]. Fine .

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Book number: 20710

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECT; RUSSELL FORESTER: UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY; EXHIBITION; CATALOG; TRACK 16 GALLERY, SANTA MONICA; SMART ART PRESS; MICHAEL ZAKIAN; ALAN J. J. COHEN; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; LIMITED EDITION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Fraser, Douglas

Village Planning in the Primitive World

New York, NY: George Braziller, (1968). (1968). New York, NY: George Braziller, (1968). (1968). Very good. - Octavo, tan boards backed with a black cloth spine titled in gilt, in a dust jacket. The dust jacket is rubbed. 128 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Very good.

First edition. Very good .

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Book number: 21902

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: VILLAGE PLANNING IN THE PRIMITIVE WORLD; ARCHITECTURE; DOUGLAS FRASER; FIRST EDITION; CITY PLANNING; AFRICA; OCEANIA; MBUTI PYGMIES; MELANESIA; INDONESIA; YORUBA; NIGERIA.

Fratta, Arturo; editor

L'Aula Magna Della Federico II: Storia E Restauro

(Napoli): Electa Napoli, (1998). (1998). (Napoli): Electa Napoli, (1998). (1998). Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 10 inches wide], black cloth titled in white on the spine, in a dust wrapper. There are a few score marks to the dust jacket & the rear panel is rubbed. 143 pages plus colophon. Profusely illustrated in black & white & color. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

The text is in Italian. Very good .

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Book number: 24595

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; INTERIOR DESIGN; ITALIAN; NAPLES; FEDERICO II; HALL; COUNCIL CHAMBER; HISTORY; RESTORATION; L'AULA MAGNA DELLA FEDERICO II: STORIA E RESTAURO; ARTURO FRATTA; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Gambardella, Cherubino

Posillipo Moderna: Racconto Fotografico Di Peppe Maisto

(Napoli: Edizioni CLEAN, 1999). 1999). (Napoli: Edizioni CLEAN, 1999). 1999). Very good. - Small oblong quarto [8-5/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], gray cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. There are 2 price-stickers on the rear panel of the dust jacket & the bottom edge of the panel is slightly creased. 135 & [8] pages plus colophon. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.

The text is in Italian. Very good .

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Book number: 22827

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE; CITY; ITALY; POSILLIPO MODERNA; CHERUBINO GAMBARDELLA; PHOTOGRAPHER; PEPPE MAISTO; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Gaudi, Antonio). Dali, Salvador; Descharnes, Robert; Prevost, Clovis.

Gaudi: The Visionary. Preface by Salvador Dali.

New York: The Viking Press, (1982). (1982). - Quarto, 12 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in orange cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed. 251 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine. First American edition. Fine .

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Book number: 98549

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ART; ARCHITECTURE; ROBERT DESCHARNES; CLOVIS PREVOST; SALVADOR DALI; ANTONIO GAUDI; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 1ST U.S. EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Gebhard, David; and Nevins, Deborah.

200 Years of American Architectural Drawing.

NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1977). (1977). - Quarto, blue cloth titled in silver on spine & front cover, in dw. The covers are lightly bumped with the top & bottom edges very slightly faded. There is a light stain to the dw front panel. 301 & [5] pp. Profuse B&W illustrations. Very good.

First edition.

"Drawings and Intent in American Architecture" by David Gebhard. Commentaries on the Drawings by Deborah Nevins.

Published for The Architectural of League of New York and The American Federation of Arts. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Very good .

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Book number: 35098

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; AMERICAN; ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS; ARCHITECTURAL PLANS; NEOCLASSICISM; GOTHIC; GREEK REVIVAL; SKYSCRAPERS; INTERNATIONAL STYLE; REFERENCE; DAVID GEBHARD; DEBORAH NEVINS; REVIEW COPY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(Gropius, Walter; Bayer, Herbert). Nerlich, Werner.

3. Internationales Bauhaus Kolloquium 5-7 Juli 1983. Original Poster for the 3rd International Bauhaus Colloquium Designed by Werner Nerlich and Illustrated with Herbert Bayer's Architectural Drawing of Walter Gropius' Office.

Weimar, Germany, 1983. 1983. - sc - A 32-1/2 inch high by 22-3/8 inch wide (80,4 cm high by 57 cm wide) color poster designed by Werner Nerlich for the third Bauhaus Colloquium. The poster, titled "3. Internationales Bauhaus Kolloquium 5-7 Juli 1983 : Hochschule fur Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar" is illustrated with Herbert Bayer's isometric rendering of the Bauhaus director's office designed by Walter Gropius. The image is framed by color & shading scales along the top and bottom and is reproduced in offset lithograph on glossy paper from what is apparently a photograph by Eberhard Renno. There are heavy creases to the corners and edges with chips and tiny tears to the edges, including a short tear to the lower left edge and faint pinholes to the corners, which can all easily be matted out. Good.

This powerful poster for the third International Bauhaus Colloquium (the first having been held in 1976), is designed by the artist Werner Nerlich (1915-1999) who, after having studied art with Hans Orlowski and Max Kaus, was called up for military service. He promptly switched sides and served with the German-comprised Anti-Nazi National Committee for a Free Germany which served on the side of the Red Army against the German forces. After the war, he was responsible for constructing the East German road system. By 1946, Nerlich was designing posters and prints and, along with Otto Nagel, Max Pechstein, Karl Hofer, and others, organized exhibitions in the Villa Kellermann and the Potsdam stables. In 1947, he founded and was artistic director of the art school in Potsdam and later director of the College of Applied Arts in Potsdam.

Rare. Good .

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Book number: 30938

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; ART; POSTER; DESIGN; WERNER NERLICH; WALTER GROPIUS; HERBERT BAYER; 3. INTERNATIONALES BAUHAUS KOLLOQUIUM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; GRAPHIC DESIGN; ISOMETRIC RENDERING OF THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE; HOCHSCHLE FUR ARCHITEKTUR UND BAUWE

Guild, Tricia

Tricia Guild in Town: Contemporary Design for Urban Living. Photography - Giles de Chabaneix. Text - Elspeth Thompson

New York: Rizzoli, [c.1996]. [c.1996]. New York: Rizzoli, [c.1996]. [c.1996]. Fine. - Quarto, tan boards titled in purple on the spine in color pictorial dust wrapper. 208 pages with profuse color and black & white illustrations. Near fine. Fine .

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Book number: 1380

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; DECORATIVE ARTS; INTERIOR DESIGN; CITY LIVING; TRICIA GUILD; IN TOWN; PHOTOGRAPHS; PHOTOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATIONS; TOWN HOUSE; REDECORATING; DECORATION.

(Guimard, Hector). Graham, F. Lanier

Hector Guimard

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1970). (1970). New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1970). (1970). Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in decorative wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled. 36 pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. The top corner of the 2nd leaf is creased & a few page corners & top edges are lightly bumped. Very good.

Catalog for a traveling exhibition which opened at the Museum of Modern Art on March 10, 1970. Hector Guimard [1867-1942] was the leading French architect-designer in the Art Nouveau style. Though best known for the subway entrances which he designed for the Paris Metro company in 1900 he also designed more than fifty buildings and hundreds of decorative objects. Good .

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Book number: 25747

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; DECORATIVE ARTS; FRENCH ARCHITECT-DESIGNER; HECTOR GUIMARD; ART NOUVEAU; STYLE METRO; PARIS METRO ENTRANCES; INTERIOR DESIGN; FURNITURE; CATALOG; F. LANIER GRAHAM; EXHIBITION; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Gwathmey Siegel). Gwathmey, Charles

Zumikon Residence

(New York): The Monacelli Press, (1996). (1996). (New York): The Monacelli Press, (1996). (1996). Very good. - Small quarto [9 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in folding pictorial wrappers. The wraps are rubbed. 72 pages. Profuse illustrations in color and black & white, including architectural plans & elevations. There is a small crease & chip to the front edge of 1 leaf. Very good.

This book documents the designing of a house built for a Swiss businessman in the village of Zumikon, near Zurich, to house his family and his art collection. Very good .

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Book number: 28325

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; MODERN RESIDENCES; ZUMIKON RESIDENCE; SWITZERLAND; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARCHITECTS; GWATHMEY SIEGEL; CHARLES GWATHMEY; ROBERT SIEGEL; PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS; DRAWINGS; ARCHITECTURAL PLANS; ELEVATIONS; AXONOMETRICS; ARCHITECTURAL COMMISS

Hirshorn, Paul; and Izenour, Steven.

White Towers.

Cambridge, MA and London, U.K.: MIT Press, (2007). (2007). - Small quarto [9-1/4 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], black cloth in a dust wrapper. There is a small area of light rubbing to the rear cover. There is minor soiling to the spine of the dust jacket. x, [1] leaf, 189 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Near fine.

With a new preface by Paul Hirshorn.

"The photographs in this classic book not only trace the evolution of a restaurant chain, they record an iconography of a part of the American built environment that no longer exists." [From the dust wrapper copy]. Very good .

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Book number: 35293

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; URBAN ARCHITECTURE; FAST FOOD CHAIN; HAMBURGER FRANCHISE; RESTAURANT CHAIN; WHITE TOWERS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PAUL HIRSHORN; STEVEN IZENOUR.

Frankl, Paul. (1878-1962). Influential art historian and important architectural analyst

Autograph Letter Signed by Paul Frankl Concerning His Earlier Statements Regarding Peter Hemmel and the Windows of Walbourg in Alsace.

Princeton, NJ: Dec. 5. 1951. 1951. Princeton, NJ: Dec. 5. 1951. 1951. Very good. - Quarto. 63 words penned on a sheet of cream stock, approximately 10-1/2 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide, with his address stamped in the top left corner. Signed "Paul Frankl". The top edge of the letter is slightly roughed & there is some light creasing to its bottom edge. Folded 3 times for mailing. Together with the stamped addressed mailing envelope. Very good. Frankl writes to a Mrs. C. W. Mortimer, sending her a reprint of one of his articles. "Reading again what I wrote eight years ago I find that I changed my opinion on one point. Hemmel had no part in the windows of Walbourg in Alsace (p. 157). This is a detail interesting only a very small group of specialists, but I want to confess that I was mistaken.." Paul Frankl [1878-1962] was an Austro-Hungarian-born art historian. He is best known for his discussions of architectural principles and history, which he organized within a Gestalt-oriented framework. After training as an architect he studied philosophy, history and art history in Munich under Heinrich Wolfflin and Berthold Riehl. In 1934 the Nazis terminated his position as a professor at Halle University and he moved to the United States that same year. In 1939 he obtained a position as art historian at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University. He received a tenured appointment in 1949, which he held until his death. Very good .

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Book number: 33894

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ART; ARCHITECTURE; ART HISTORIAN; ARCHITECTURAL ANALYST; PAUL FRANKL; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED; ALS; A.L.S.; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; PETER HEMMEL; WALBOURG, ALSACE.

(Ogiz: Izogiz).

(Caucasus). Kavkaz: Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Zheleznovodsk, Okresnosti Kislovodska. (Titled in Cyrillic).

Moscow and Leningrad: Ogiz: Izogiz, 1931. 1931. - Oblong octavo [6 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is darkened and heavily creased & chipped with pieces out of the head & tail of the spine. The top right corner of the front cover is torn & is reinforced on the verso with linen tape. Some form of customs or shipping label is mounted on the front wrap, obliterating the cover illustration & part of the titling. 22 pages plus 72 pages of sepia-toned photographic illustrations. Despite the condition of the covers, the binding is tight & the contents are very good. Good First edition. The book is a pictorial work on sanitoriums and health resorts in the Caucasus Mountain region. Kislovodsk is a spa city in the North Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian Seas. Pyatigorsk is a resort city with an important spa. It is the tourist center of the Caucasian Mineral Waters. Essentuki [Yessentuki] is a city at the base of the Caucasus Mountains. It has been recognized as one of he best health resorts for the treatment of the digestive organs. Zheleznovodsk is a town whose name translates as "Iron Water Place" as the mineral waters are believed to have a high iron content. Kislovodska is a spa city in the North Caucasus region. The introductions and captions are in Russian, English and German. Rare. Good .

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Book number: 36645

Catalogue: Architecture

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; RUSSIA; CAUCASUS MOUNTAIN REGION. HEALTH RESORTS; SPAS; MINERAL WATERS; SANITORIUMS; KAVKAZ: KISLOVODSK, PYATIGORSK, ESSENTUKI, ZHELEZNOVODSK, OKRESNOSTI KISLOVODSKA; PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS; YESSSSENTUKI; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.