| | | | Spring 2013 Featured Design & Architecture A Country of Cities By Vishaan Chakrabarti. Foreword by Norman Foster. Illustrations by SHoP Architects. In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs a >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781935202172 US $29.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 252 pgs / 150 color. Pub Date: 05/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes Edited and with text by Jean-Louis Cohen. Text by Mardges Bacon, Tim Benton, Barry Bergdoll, Maristella Casciato, Edmond Charrière, Carlos Comas, Catherine Dumont d’Ayot, Marie-Jeanne Dumont, Romy Golan, Genevieve Hendricks, Guillemette Morel Journel, Juan José Lahuerta, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Jacques Lucan, Niklas Maak, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Mina Marefat, Mary McLeod, Danièle Pauly, Antoine Picon, Claude Prelorenzo, Josep Quetglas, Enrique Ramirez, Bruno Reichlin, Arthur Rüegg, Jacques Christopher Schnoor, Marida Talamona, Yannis Tsiomis, Anthony Vidler, Stanislaus von Moos. In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier’s prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-decade >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870708510 US $75.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 392 pgs / 400 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light Edited by Barry Bergdoll, Corinne Bélier and Marc le Coeur. Text by Neil Levine, David van Zanten, Martin Bressani, Sigrid de Jong, Bertrand Lemoine, Marie-Hélène de la Mure. Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects consistently lionized as a precursor of modern architecture throughout the twentieth century and into our own time. The two magisterial glass-and-iron reading rooms he built in >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870708398 US $55.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 232 pgs / 225 color. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction Edited and with a foreword by Alastair Gordon. Text by Christopher Bascom Rawlins. As the 1960s became The Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York’s Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford >>more Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio ISBN 9781938922091 US $60.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 204 pgs / 140 color / 100 b&w. Pub Date: 05/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Visible | Invisible: Landscape Works of Reed Hilderbrand Preface by Peter Walker. Introduction by Douglas Reed, Gary Hilderbrand. Text by Robert Pogue Harrison, Gary Hilderbrand, Niall Kirkwood, Suzanne Turner. Afterword by William Saunders. Visible | Invisible presents the work of Boston-based landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand. Led by founding principals Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand, the firm is widely recognized for rigorously conceived and carefully executed project >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781938922138 US $75.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 376 pgs / 200 color / 100 duotone. Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  Never Built Los Angeles By Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin. Foreword by Thom Mayne. Never Built Los Angeles explores the “what if” Los Angeles, investigating the values and untapped potential of a city still in search of itself. A treasure trove of buildings, master plans, parks, follies and mass-transit >>more Metropolis Books ISBN 9781935202967 US $55.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE Hbk, 11.5 x 8.5 in. / 376 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w. Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  MVRDV Buildings Edited by Ilka Ruby, Andreas Ruby. MVRDV is a Rotterdam-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993 (its name is an acronym for founding members Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries). In cooperation with Ilka and Andreas >>more nai010 publishers ISBN 9789462080126 US $95.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 06/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture Edited by Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Stanislaus von Moos. Text by William J.R. Curtis, Jochen Eisenbrand, Kenneth Frampton, Réjean Legault, Thomas Leslie, Neil Levine, Michael J. Lewis, Stanislaus von Moos, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Florian Sauter, Susan Solomon, William Whitaker. The American architect Louis Kahn is one of the great master builders of the twentieth century. With complex spatial compositions, an elemental formal vocabulary and a choreographic mastery of light, Kahn created buildings of powerful >>more Vitra Design Museum ISBN 9783931936921 US $100.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE Clth, 9.75 x 13 in. / 354 pgs / 250 color / 250 b&w. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Active/Awaiting stock
|
|  Pop Art Design Edited by Mateo Kries, Mathias Schwartz-Clauss. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen, Brigitte Felderer, Steven Heller, Thomas Kellein, Bettina Korintenberg, Tobias Lander, Marco Livingstone, Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, Dario Scodeller. As the most influential art movement of the postwar era, Pop art continues to shape our visual culture today. A central preoccupation of Pop was its dialogue with design, extensively investigated for the first time >>more Vitra Design Museum ISBN 9783931936969 US $90.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Flexi, 11.25 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 325 color. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  Jean Royère Edited and with foreword by Jacques Lacoste, Patrick Seguin. Interview by F.C. Prohon, Lorenz Baumer, Béatrice Salmon, Christian LaCroix, Pascal Renous. Text by P.E. Martin-Vivier, Jacques Lacoste, Patrick Seguin. In 1931, aged 29, Jean Royère (1902–1981) resigned from a comfortable position in the import–export trade in order to set up business as an interior designer. He learnt his new trade in the cabinetmaking workshops >>more Edition Galerie Jacques Lacoste/Galerie Patrick Seguin ISBN 9782909187020 US $240.00 CAN $240.00 TRADE Slip, Clth, 2 vols., 10 x 12 in. / 656 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  The Furniture of Charles & Ray Eames Text by Mathias Remmele. The oeuvre of the American designer couple Charles and Ray Eames is extraordinary in its range and diversity. Their groundbreaking furniture designs, which have remained current throughout the decades since their creation, play a central >>more Vitra Design Museum ISBN 9783931936747 US $65.00 CAN $65.00 FLAT40 Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 210 color / 90 b&w. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past Edited by Miroslava Hajek, Luca Zaffarano. Text by Pierpaolo Antonello, Jeffrey Schnapp. Artist, graphic designer and polymath extraordinaire, Bruno Munari (1907–1998) first found fame as a member of F.T. Marinetti’s Futurist group in the late 1920s. His earliest paintings and drawings show the influence of comrades such >>more Silvana Editorale ISBN 9788836624751 US $45.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 280 color. Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  City Shock Text by Winy Maas, Felix Madrazo. In a world of seemingly ever-increasing instability, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision, but by fear--fear of disaster, of change, of the unknown. What can we learn from this state >>more nai010 publishers ISBN 9789462080072 US $45.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 318 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  39 Difficult Questions for Stefan Sagmeister Edited and with text by Jennifer Burris. Introduction by Kenneth Goldsmith. Text by Ana Maria Gomez Lopez, Alexander Hovnanian, Staci Lynn Kaplan, Ellie Levitt, Christina Lisk, Isabel Oliveres, Sarah Richter, Alexander Schwartz, Naomi Shavin. Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, artist and typographer Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) blends words and images in ways that are fresh, striking and often unsettling. Over the past decade, his influence on design culture has >>more Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ISBN 9780884541240 US $18.00 CAN $18.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 156 pgs / 19 color / 8 b&w. Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Stefan Sagmeister: The Happy Film Pitch Book Interview by Claudia Gould. Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography. The Happy Film Pitch Book >>more Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ISBN 9780884541257 US $20.00 CAN $20.00 TRADE Pbk, 2.75 x 4 in. / 244 pgs / 60 color / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/Awaiting stock
|
|  Le Corbusier: Le poème de l'angle droit Between 1947 and 1953, Le Corbusier (1887–1965) produced a suite of 19 lithographs and illustrated poems that are now regarded as the most complete statement of his worldview. The lithographs and texts of Le poème >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775734707 US $60.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Clth, 7 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 125 color. Pub Date: 10/30/2012 Active/In stock
|
|  After the Manifesto Edited by Craig Buckley. Text by Ruben Alcolea, Craig Buckley, Beatriz Colomina, Carlos Labarta, Felicity D. Scott, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker, Mark Wigley, et al. Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? After the Manifesto brings >>more GSAPP/T6 Ediciones ISBN 9781883584870 US $30.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE Pbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 300 pgs. Pub Date: 05/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Farming the City Edited by Francesca Miazzo, Mark Minkjan. The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing, storing, cooking, preserving, distributing and >>more Valiz/Trancity ISBN 9789078088639 US $32.50 CAN $32.50 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w. Pub Date: 05/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
|
|  Dutch Architecture in 250 Highlights Text by Ole Bouman, Behrang Mousavi, Hetty Berens, Suzanne Mulder, Ellen Smit. Drawing from the collection of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Dutch Architecture in 250 Highlights celebrates the collection’s centenary with this portrait of the rich and varied architectural history of the Netherlands. This broad and vo >>more nai010 publishers ISBN 9789462080096 US $80.00 CAN $80.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 322 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Active/In stock
|
|  Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine By Malkit Shoshan. The formation of the state of Israel in 1948 and its subsequent conflicts with Palestine notoriously present an extremely complex narrative. Atlas of the Conflict maps the processes and mechanisms behind the shaping of Israel >>more nai010 publishers ISBN 9789064506888 US $52.50 CAN $52.50 TRADE Hbk, 4.5 x 7.75 in. / 480 pgs / 400 color. Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/Awaiting stock
|
|
| |