Rob Wellington Quigley: Buildings and Projects
Rizzoli International, 1996. Softbound. Black, color-illustrated wraps. 222 pp., profusely illustrate din bw and color. A terrific presentation and analysis. Copiously illustrated. More
Rizzoli International, 1996. Softbound. Black, color-illustrated wraps. 222 pp., profusely illustrate din bw and color. A terrific presentation and analysis. Copiously illustrated. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan/green dust jacket, 372 pp., 105 BW plates. "Relates the fascinating life and career of Robert Mills (1781-1855), the first native-born and American-trained architect. Although he designed the Washington National Monument, an enduring symbol of the United..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Softbound. BW illustrated wraps. xi, 337 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw. Part architectural retrospective, part biography, and part social history, this book is a fascinating evocation of White's life and times, and a splendid album of New York's most elegantly beautiful era. More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Glossy illustrated dust jacket with cream lettering. 188 pp. Mainly BW illustrations. Louis Henry Sullivan, author of the maxim "form follows function," is one of the best known and most important American architects of the nineteenth..... More
New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. First. Hardcover. Blue, black and silver printed boards, no DJ. 174 pp. Over 300 illustrations, chiefly color. "The artist's first monograph... Author Sandro Marpillero explores the unique opportunities afforded by the transparency, reflectivity, and compressive strength of glass. With over 300 images..... More
Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2007. Hardcover. Blue and illustrated boards in mylar cover; 600 pp., profusely illus. in color and BW. "Documents the inquisitive exploration of an architect for whom 'architecture is an obsession.' Designing in elements of light and shadow, using poised geometry to create sculptured chaos, and building in..... More
Washington, DC: Grayson Publishing, 2002. Hardbound. Black cloth with color illustrated dj; 271 pp. with CD-ROM. A retrospective of the firm's work over its first 25 years, the book presents and eclectic body of accomplishement established by international reputation. The projects include architecture, historic preservation, furniture, interiors, performance halls, sports..... More
NY: Rizzoli, 1999. Hardcover. BW matte boards. Glassine glossy dust jacket. 300 pp. Color and bw illustrations. Documents new work of the 1990s, with Gehry offerng commentary on his processes and designs, including his influences, clients, use of materials, and new technologies. More
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, green DJ with color illustration. 208 pp. Profusely in color. From the book jacket: One of the most influential landscape and garden designers of the twentieth century, Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1993) has inspired generations of gardens around the world..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. 211 pp. Profuse bw ills. Organized by James O'Gorman. Includes extensive essay about O'Gorman's works, as well as lavish illustrations. More
Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, 2008. Hardbound. Black cloth boards w/ color pictorial DJ, [xvii] 229pp, 131 BW and color illustrations. From the publisher--Henry Austin’s (1804–1891) works receive consideration in books on nineteenth-century architecture, yet no book has focused scholarly attention on his primary achievements in New Haven, Connecticut, in..... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black stamped lettering. BW-illustrated dust jacket with gray and red lettering. 168 pp. BW illustrations. Catalog of the exhibition organized at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1989. More
Toronto, Canada: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2006. Softcover. BW pictorial wraps; 71 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw and color photos. Accompanied the exhibition "Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture"; Includes several essays by people who have worked and studied with Gehry. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994. Softcover. Color-illustrated softcover with orange and white lettering. 344 pp. BW and color illustrations. Presents a comprehensive summary of Wright's vision, from the turn of the century until his 1959 death. More
Detroit, MI: Michigan Society of Architects, December 1959. Softbound. Illustrated paper wraps.16 pp. BW photographs and floor plans. Cover and feature article only--other parts of the issue have been removed. Rebound into protective cover by library. Lists 20 Michigan homes by Wright and illustrates 5 of them. More
New York: Knopf, 1994. Hardbound. Grey boards with blue cloth spine; bw pictorial dj; 465 pp. with occasional bw images;. An excellent biography of the eminent architect. More
St. Louis: Southern Illinois University, 1982. Softcover. Off-white embossed wraps, 78 pp. 44 BW figures and 8 pages of additional BW illustrations of restorative work. In the early 1960's Southern University at Edwardsville recognized that America, sometimes blindly and without conscious realization, was casting aside portions of its national and..... More
New York: The Monacelli Press, 2008. Hardcover. Black photographic boards with white and yellow lettering; 207 pp. with bw images throughout. Transcriptions of the taped interviews between Johnson and Stern, with very enlightening material on Johnson's architectural career, directorship of architecture and design at MoMA, work on Lincoln Center, and..... More
Pasadena, CA: Grant Dahlstrom, 1974. Hardcover. Green marbled cloth wraps with green lettering on spine, beige illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, ix, 112 pp., bw illustrations. "The architectural firm of Greene and Greene (1893-1922) created an architectural form that has become indigenous to the southern half of California; theirs..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996. Softcover. Color illus. wraps; 374 pp.; 91 bw figures. A collection of essays by Venturi, including his 1950 MFA thesis. More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995. Softcover. Black & color illus. wraps, 303 pp., color & BW illus. Showcases some of the buildings and structures designed by Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas. With an introduction by Anthony Vidler. More than 40 sites are featured here, many of them in New..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps. 336 pp., profusely illustrated in bw and color. Robert Venturi, partner of the Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, is probably best known for his writing on architecture. Published during a time of growing discontent with modern architecture, Venturi's and..... More
NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Softcover. Grey textured print wraps. 224 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. This book presents fifty projects with detailed descriptions and numerous illustrations, including Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center and Bryant park in NY, the Cleveland Public Library, The Hawaii..... More
Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 70 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color photos. An overview of the 2009 projects of Studio 804, a not-for-profit design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Planning. More
Milano: ETAS, 1962. Softcover. Beige illus. wraps with black lettering in Italian. Magazine format. 64 pp. with color and bw photos. Text in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish. Includes two essays: Riegl's Prophecy and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater; and Twenty-five years of the House on the Waterfall: Frank Lloyd Wright..... More