Chicago: Portland Cement Association, 1927. Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards, 60 pp., 11 color plates, 31 BW plates. A slim but lavishly illustrated book of essays on the topic: The Edgewater Beach Hotel [Chicago] / Benjamin H. Marshall ; Shrine of the Sacred Heart [Washington DC] / Frederick V. Murphy ;...
New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. Hardcover. Color pictorial paper over boards; 332 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw.
Kansas City, Missouri: Ernest Kellerstrass, 1910. Hardcover. Brown or green library buckram. 92 pp. BW illustrations. Oversize. If you're questioning whether to buy, take this tip from the title page: "Persons who do not own the book have no right to use any of the plans or drawings."
Bethany, Connecticut: Laticrete International, Inc., 1998. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; 200 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw photos and drawings.
1918. second revised and enlarged. Hardbound. Red publishers cloth. xvii, 292 pp., 200 illustrations. A very solid reading copy, but not for the perfectionist.
New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 140 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw figures. Discusses recent advances in the digital-fabrication techniques of sectioning, tessellating, folding, contouring, and forming; Features projects by Martti Kalliala and Esa Ruskeepaa with Martin Lukasczyk, Monica Ponce...
Washington, D.C. Foundation for Preservation Technology for the Association for Preservation Technology, 1983. Softcover. Cream & illus. wraps, 224 pp., BW illus. A collection of seven essays dealing with a variety of building-related topics: The historic development of hand forged iron builders' hardware / Donald Streeter -- Chicago balloon frame...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1949. Hardbound. Blue cloth.127 pp., illustrated in bw.
Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2008. Hardbound. Black cloth with grey and white lettering; color illustrated dj with red and white lettering; 159 pp. with numerous color photographs. Explores the work of stonemason John Morris, who uses the tradional art of hand-chiseling with native stone. Stunning photographs on...
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Hardbound. Terracotta cloth with color photographic dj and white lettering; protective Brodart cover; 237 pp. with profuse color and bw illustrations. The story of adobe building construction and living, from North and West Africa to the Iberian Peninsula to New Mexico, illustrated with more...
Munchen / Basel: Callwey Verlag; Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture, 2001. Softcover. Blue wraps with color illustration. 104 pp. Profusely illustrated, some color. In English and German. From the back of cover: Contemporary landscape architects are breaking free from the constraints of a design philosophy which had advocated natural elements and the...
Charlottesville, Virginia: The University of Virginia Press, 1984. Hardbound. Tan cloth with maroon spine and gold lettering; 114 pp. with several bw illustrations. With topics of Palladio, Palladianism and Palladianists 1570-1730; Palladio in Southside Virginia: Brandon and Battersea; Pattern Books in American Architecture 1730-1930; and Palladio in Tidewater Virginia: Mount...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Cream cloth, blue & color illus. dust jacket, 152 pp., BW & color illus. "Introduces a new and exciting technique for salvaging the natural land upon which we build new homes, new offices, or even new shopping centers. ... -- the Envelope, an...
