Search Results: Architecture from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Tubingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Text in German. Quarto. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. Very light bumping to the corners and tips, with just a hint of rubbing to the dust jacket; else near fine.

Boulogne: L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Le Corbusier to M. Villey, Prefect of the Seine Department, on the half-title, with a typed letter signed on headed paper by Corbusier to Villey accompanying the gift of the book. Dated 6 Octobre 1938, the letter has been fully translated and opens: "For a long time, I've been trying to spread the idea that a new civilization has been born and that this civilization must invent its vital infrastructure." Oblong quarto. Numerous illustrations, many photographic, some colored. Original pictorial paper-covered boards over a cloth spine. The extremities are slightly rubbed; otherwise very good. Le Corbusier's book was based on his "Pavillion des temps nouveaux" at the Paris exhibition "Art et Technique" held in 1937. It contained his ideas for new methods of urban planning and housing, including "immeuble-villa" complexes with communal areas for eating and recreation, yet retaining… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Quarto. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Milan and Los Angeles: Electa / The Getty Research Institute, 2000. Wraps. Fine. The Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) gained international renown for his imaginative and starkly beautiful designs featuring simple forms such as cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. Among his most famous projects are the cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena; the Gallaratese residential complex in Milan; the Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan; and Il Teatro del Mondo, a temporary floating theater created in 1979 for the Venice Bienniale. This limited, boxed-set edition contains facsimiles of Rossi's notebooks for the years 1968 to 1986. Their pages are filled with Rossi's thoughts on architectural theory and history, his musings on progress, cities, and museums, and the impressions he recorded during his extensive travels. Handwritten in Italian and illustrated with Rossi's superb pastel and watercolor sketches, these literate and visually stunning notebooks display the genius of an architect and… Read More

Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Profusely illustrated with duotone photographs by the author, which are preceded with a foreword by Frank O. Gehry. Signed by Garcetti on the half-title. Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition, first printing with the errata slip laid in. Inscribed by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour on the front flyleaf, alongside two post-it notes inscribed by Venturi. Folio: xvi, [2], 189 p. with numerous photographs, architectural plans, etc. Original gray cloth binding, lettered in gilt, with a color photograph mounted on the front panel. In the original printed glassine dust jacket, which is a bit edgeworn with a few unobtrusive tape mends. Learning from Las Vegas caused a stir in the architectural world upon its publication, as it was hailed by progressive critics for its bold indictment of Modernism, and by the status quo as blasphemous. A split among young American architects occurred during the 1970s, with Izenour, Venturi, Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Moore, and Allan Greenberg defending the book as "The Greys", and Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman,… Read More

Basel: Birkhauser, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Setting out from the assumption that the design of every single room in a house is based on a physical function: one place to lie the body down to rest, another to take in food, a third to step into a tub to bath, Bernard Rudofsky believed architecture served to stimulate the senses and refine everyday culture. The rich visual material conveys his philosophy: "I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture." Quarto: 304 p. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Sharon Grevet. Lucien Hervé (1910-2007), one of the great architectural photographers of the twentieth century, collaborated with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the renowned architect died in 1965. Hervé approached his subjects seeking not only to document the buildings he was commissioned to photograph but also, especially, to convey a sense of space, texture, and structure. Through light and shadow, Hervé defined the dialogue between substance and form. By delineating a strong contrast between light and shadow as well as placing emphasis on building details, the photographer was able to communicate the depth of a room, the surface of a wall, or the strength of a building's framework. For too long, Hervé the master of architectural photography has eclipsed Hervé the photographer whose career began as early as 1938 and whose subject matter varied… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 1982. Trade paperback. Near fine. Modern account of the group of English architects, including some of the greatest names of the age, who, as followers of Palladio, in turn helped to shape the course of English architecture during the early seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. Near fine.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Celebrated Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) devoted much of his career to the city of Venice. Famous for public buildings he had designed in his native Vicenza and country villas he had built for wealthy patricians there, he arrived in Venice in the mid-1550s confident of establishing a successful new practice. Yet Palladio's Venetian career never matched his lofty expectations. Failing to achieve the position of state architect or to earn the kinds of commissions to which he was accustomed, he found himself working in a category new to his practice: ecclesiastical architecture. It was his stunning churches, however, including San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore, that established Palladio's lasting renown. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Tracy E. Cooper organizes Palladio's work in Venice according to different types of patrons. She discusses his major monuments as well as… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Number 616 of 666 copies. Monumental study of the early Dutch houses in New Jersey, on Long Island and Staten Island and in Rockland County, New York, prepared under the auspices of The Holland Society of New York. In his introduction, President Roosevelt writes, "The architecture, the decorations, the furniture of our early settlers have a very definite relationship to the arts of today. It is true that our modern life calls for conveniences unthought of in seventeenth century New Amsterdam; but the charm of line, the judgment of location and the spirit of simplicity of the homes of our ancestors are all a good influence on a civilization which to some of us seems to be reverting to the more humble and honest ideals." Thick quarto: 612 p. with 171 plates reproducing photographs by Margaret de M. Brown. Original blue cloth-covered boards over an orange cloth spine with gilt titles. A fine copy in the original glassine wrapper… Read More

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed by Dione Neutra on the front flyleaf. The correspondence between Richard and Dione Neutra recounts the difficult early years and the developing philoso­phy of a man who would change the look of architecture. But as Thomas S. Hines, Neutra's biographer, makes clear, the book does far more than trace the devel­opment of two artistic young people: "What you have here is not only valuable material about the making of an archi­tectural career and of a salutary and in­teresting marriage, but documents of Eu­ropean and American social and cultural history in the early twentieth century." Tall octavo: 240 p. with a frontispiece and numerous textual photographs and illustrations. Original gray paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. A crisp and clean copy. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn, with a bit of mild sun fading along the spine; else very good… Read More

New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. With 158 illustrations. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with black titles. The ink stamp of Los Angeles architect Harold A. Edmondson and a tipped-in illustration of an iron door knocker appear on the front flyleaf. Some general edgewear to the boards, with a bit of sun fading along the spine; else very good.

Tubingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Text in German. Quarto. Original light blue cloth binding, with black titles. Internally crisp and clean. Light bumping to the tips, with some mild edgewear to the dust jacket.

Santa Monica: Hennessey + Ingalls, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed and dated by Kathleen Tuttle on the title page. Marston (1883-1946) was instrumental in establishing Pasadena, California as a winter resort and then as a thriving community. He and his firm designed nearly 1000 projects, many of which still survive, including cottages and additions to resort hotels, notable commercial and civic buildings such as the Pacific Asia Museum, and the earliest bungalow court. His residential designs span the range of styles from the Arts and Crafts through English Tudor and Monterey Colonial to, most importantly, Mediterranean Revival. Quarto: 162 p. with numerous textual illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Trade paperback. Near fine. Drawing on a wide variety of printed materials and previously unused sources, the author explores twenty of the most important residences built by dignitaries of Church and State. Early plans and drawings and a wealth of photographs aid him in reconstructing the leisure activity of the leaders of Renaissance society in the settings that were built to enhance it." Quarto. Original paper wrappers. The spine is lightly sun faded; else near fine.

Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Water architecture in South Asia represents some of the most beautiful and spectacular building achievements of the region. This study provides an holisitic approach to the subject, suggesting common links and regional contrasts between types of water architecture in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Five types of water structures are identified. Their development is traced from simple to more complex forms, considering how these accomodate secular and religious functions, and present expressions of sacred and royal authority. This publication is the first reference work on the subject." Volume XXIV in the Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology series. Quarto: xiii, 266 p. with 45 textual figures and 290 plates (some color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some faint evidence of moisture along the extremities, with some light wear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.