Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A.T. Smith

$12.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series | Reading Level: very good

The Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and international - both during the program's existence and even to this day. This compact guide includes all projects featured in our XL version, with over 150 photos and plans and a map of where all houses are (or were) located. ...Show more

Victor Horta by Aurora Cuito (Editor); Cristina Montes (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Series: Archipockets Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Unknown Westminster Abbey by Lawrence E Tanner

$10.00 NZD

Category: History | Series: King Penguin Books | Reading Level: good

The Show to End All Shows - Frank Lloyd Wright and the Museum of Modern Art, 1940 by Peter Reed (Editor); William Kaizen (Editor); Kathryn Smith (Contribution by)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Series: Studies in Modern Art | Reading Level: very good

In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the great American architect, then in his 70s, who had experienced a professional rebirth over the previous decade after many years of relative invisibility. Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project, which he intended, he said, to be "the show to end all shows." To accompany the exhibition, the Museum planned a publication in the form of a Festschrift, commissioning essays from many of the best-known architecture figures of the day--Alvar Aalto, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Richard Neutra, Mies van der Rohe, and others. Wright, however, took issue with certain parts of the book, complimentary though it was, and after an incendiary exchange of correspondence, including the architect's threat to cancel the entire exhibition, the show went forward but the book did not. In the 60-odd years since, the essays that MoMA commissioned have remained in its files, most of them lost to public view. Now, for the first time in one volume, MoMA is publishing the entire surviving group, along with a full selection of the letters and telegrams between Wright, MoMA, and others detailing MoMA's and the architect's collaboration-cum-collision. Accompanying these period documents is an extensive essay by the noted Frank Lloyd Wright scholar Kathryn Smith, who provides a full account of the exhibition, both as it was and as it was intended to be--including, for example, an unrealized plan to erect one of Wright's Usonian Houses in the MoMA garden. Smith also explores Wright's relationship to his critics, the architectural profession, and the Museum in the years leading up to the exhibition. ...Show more

The Art of City Making by Charles Landry

$18.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good

Corrugated Iron in New Zealand by Geoff Chapple

$25.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good

Valparaíso School - Open City Group by Rodrigo Pérez de Arch; Fernando Pérez Oyarzun; Raúl Rispa (Editor)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Architecture

Since 1950 the avantgarde architect Alberto Cruz has had such a defining influence on the Faculty of Architecture at the Catholic University in Valparaíso that the phrase Valparaíso School was soon coined. Out of this work emerged in 1970 the anonymous group "Open City Group". Architects, students, arti sts and scientists went on to form the Open City outside the town of Valparaíso. They chose the word "open" to convey their unique attitude to dialogue and work where members of the collective are the architects, the inhabitants and also the clients - and also to show their experimental form of architecture which included erecting 1:1 size models! "Open" also refers to the act of creating and confronting oneself with an unknown result. Architectural solutions emerge from the dialogue between architects from different schools with artists, scientists, painters, sculptors and writers. In this way many highly expressive buildings have been created. ...Show more

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West by Kathryn Smith

$20.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good

Taliesin and Taliesin West are world renowned landmarks of 20th century architecture. Taliesin, a house, studio, and farm built in 1911 in rural Wisconsin, embodied both Wright's frontier spirit and his cosmopolitan tastes. Taliesin West, constructed just over 25 years later in the Arizona desert, was t he culmination of Wright's ideas on the integration of architecture and landscape. ...Show more

Architecture Today by James Steele

$40.00 NZD

Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good

This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century. The Modern Movement in architecture early in the 20th century gave rise to the "International Style" - architecture was intended to transcend its time and place and provide a new world order in building and city planning. In the 1960s, modernism was seriously challenged by architects who began to question the validity of its principles. In place of modernism, a diverse array of building types and styles, driven by new architectural beliefs and theories, began to emerge. This text is an attempt to make sense of the pluralistic nature of contemporary architecture, by offering an accessible critique of the world's most prominent architectural movements and trends. ...Show more

Buildings of Dunedin - An Illustrated Architectural Guide to New Zealand's Victorian City by Hardwicke Knight; Niel Wales

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good

Jacques Emile Ruhlmann by Emmanuel Breon

$55.00 NZD

Category: Interior design | Reading Level: very good

Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, one of Europe's most influential Art Deco designers, is being celebrated in North America with a major traveling exhibition. Ruhlmann began designing at a young age and exhibited his first pieces in Paris in 1910. By 1919, he had founded his own interior design company, producing everything for the ideal home, from armoires and rugs to wallpaper and light fixtures. His early work is particularly notable for its Art Nouveau influences, and his signature pieces epitomize the best of Art Deco design. Ruhlmann, inspired by the rigorous craftsmanship of the great eighteenth-century furniture makers, had a true passion for work well done. In fact, he was so protective of his reputation that he left orders in his will for his company to be liquidated after his death, to ensure that the quality workmanship associated with the Ruhlmann name would never decline. It has not.This exquisite twovolume boxed set with ribbon closures is produced in the Ruhlmann spirit, and the lavish illustrations include exquisite facsimile reproductions of his designs. Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann will be a treasured addition to the library of anyone interested in this golden age of European design. ...Show more

Living in Provence - Interior Styles and Decoration by Sara Walden

$20.00 NZD

Category: Interior design | Reading Level: very good