New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Hardbound. Navy cloth with gold lettering; white dj with blue illustrated cover; 224 pp. with 165 illustrations, including 16 in color;. Beard traces stucco decoration from its classical beginnings to its rediscovery in the Renaissance, through the Baroque and Rococo and to its last flickers in Art Nouveau. More about Stucco and Decorative Plasterwork in Europe
Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First. Hardcover. Three-quarter gray paper boards, black cloth spine, slate-colored & illus. dust jacket, 162 pp., 28 color plates, 145 BW illus. "A striking pictorial celebration of standing examples of these distinctive buildings found in Europe and America by one photographer... More about Silent Spaces: The Last of the Great Aisled Barns
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2008. Softcover. Blue pictorial wraps; 128 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Text in English. Aspects such as function integration, networking of elements, new structures and materials, as well as the addition of functions to existing structures are investigated and explained in 85 or so concrete... More about Imagine 01: Facades
London: B. T. Batsford, 1876. First. Hardbound. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine, unpaginated, 55 BW plates. An extremely informative and well-detailed volume on construction. From the preface: "The purpose of this work is to present, in a clear and simple manner, some of the best methods followed by... More about Modern Domestic Building Construction, Illustrated by Plans, Sections, Elevations, and Complete...
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. Hardbound. Maroon cloth with gold lettering; 208 pp. with numerous line drawing examples and other bw illustrations;. Theory and analysis of ornment; size and quantity; measure and graduation; plane surfaces; straight and curved lines; aesthetical affections; polygona; spheroidal forms; symmetry; radiated; pennate; etc.... More about Theory and Analysis of Ornament Applied to the Work of Elementary and Technical Schools
London: The Architectural Press, 1926. Hardcover. Green buckram boards, [6] pp. plus 33 plates, all pages single-sided. Detailed plates with extensive notation for each. Includes plans for large domes, vaulted ceilings of all kinds, alcoves, saucer domes, wall panellings, theatre balconies and box fronts, hollow walls and partitions, stancheons, columns... More about Modern Plasterwork Construction; Casting and Fixing: Fibrous, Solid, and Reinforced
Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. Glossy blue illus. boards; 404 pp.; Numerous bw photos and figures throughout. From the cover: "This book addresses the role regional culture plays in the successful (or otherwise) process of exchanging and adapting environmental practices and standards in the built environment. Using the specific... More about Buildings, Culture & Environment: Informing Local & Global Practices
London, England: The Architectural Press, 1949. Hardcover. Tan cloth. 236 pp. Numerous bw plates and text illus. Features new ideas by Dr. K. Hajnal-Konyi (concrete), O. Bondy (steel), Phillip O. Reece (timber), K. Cheesman (glass), W. B. McKay (brickwork), Philip Scholberg (light metals and plastics) and C. C. Handisyde (insulation). More about New Ways of Building
Roma (Rome), Italy: Edizioni dell'Elefante, 1971, 1988. Nouva edizione, riveduta e ampliata [New edition, revised and enlarged]. Hardcover. White cloth with maroon letters and decoration, cream & illus. paper dust jacket, 291 pp., BW and color plates, one fold-out map at rear. Text is in Italian. Analyzes marble as a.... More about Marmora Romana
London, England: B. T. Batsford, 1911. Hardcover. Maroon library cloth; Unpaginated, approx. 200 pp.; 55 bw figures; 63 bw plates. Includes medievel, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Queen Anne, Georgian, and other styles of staircases found in English architecture; Well illustrated. More about The English Staircase: An Historical Account of its Characteristic Types to the End of the...
Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers, 2008. Hardcover. Orange cloth over boards; Silver decoration and blue lettering on front cover; 111 pp.; 2 gatefolds; Profusely illustrated with color photos and bw drawings. Discusses the use of robotics in architecture. More about Digital Materiality in Architecture
New York: James S. Virtue, circa 1850. Hardcover. 3/4 leather with cloth. xii, 122 pp. 100+ engravings. Profiles the construction of arches, domes, windows, sashes, roofs, railings, stairs, groins, doors, columns and many other architectural elements. More about Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide: Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpenters, Joiners,...
Paris: Author, 1764. Hardbound. Covers with gilt border design, re-backed with lovely goat leather, 5 raised bands with title, date and dentil designs. Original marbled endpapers. Vol 1 554pp plus 21 bw engraved plates, vol 2 180pp plus 131 bw engraved plates of which 93 are double paged. In French... More about Architecture Moderne, ou l'Art de bien batir pour toutes sortes de personnes, divisee en six...
Carlsbad: Craftsman Book Company, 1974. Softcover. Green wraps. 413 pp. More about Stair Builders Handbook
Syracuse: Harley J. McKee, 1971. Softcover. White stapled wraps. 33 pp. Several bw ills. Valuable reference material about early American masonry techniques and tools. More about Early American Masonry Materials in Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Notes on Prototypes, Sources,...
Essex Institute, 1892. Hardcover. Patterned boards/green spine. 72 pp. 85 bw plates. The author was the Director of the Peabody Academy of Science. This article also appeared as a series of papers in the American Architect and Building News. More about On the Older Forms of Terra-Cotta Roofing Tiles; (From the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol....
New York: Martin and Johnson, c. 1862. Hardcover. Brown cloth with leather spine and corners. Vol. I: 516 pp. Vol. II: 604 pp. 230 steel engravings. (Full title: A Dictionary of the Science and Practice of Architecture, Building, Carpentry, Etc., from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Forming a.... More about Nicholson's Dictionary Of Architecture (2 vols
Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011. Hardcover. Red-orange cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt letters and decoration on front cover, 263 pp., BW illus. A collection of 11 academic papers on the subject. "As the principal building material in the Middle Ages and a highly prized medium for architectural sculpture, limestone played... More about Working with Limestone: The Science, Technology and Art of Medieval Limestone Monuments
London: Trubner & Co. Softcover. Navy wraps with gilt lettering. 48 pp. No ills. Salesman's copy - no plates. Manual that gives instruction how to fabricate staircases and handrailings. More about Scientific Stair Builder Upon Entirely New Principles
NY: Da Capo, 1967. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettering and design. 16 pp + 60 bw plates. Plates 1-16 detail the five orders mostly as they relate to cornicews and columns. Plates 17 - 22 detail arches. Plates 23 - 26 detail doors. Plates 25 - 26 also detail cornices... More about The British Architect, or, The Builders Treasury of Staircases
London: Country Life, 1927. first. Hardbound. Red gilt embossed cloth. Marbled end papers. xxxviii + 271 pp., 348 bw illustrations. Comprehensive survey of decorative plasterwork from 1509 to the outbreak of the French revolution. Introduction by Arthur T. Bolton. More about Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain
