Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered
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Product Description: The Master of Modern, More Discoveries from the Julius Shulman Vaults.
TASCHEN’s Modernism Rediscovered (2000) brought to light for the first time forgotten architectural masterpieces, drawn from photographer Julius Shulman`s personal archives. Paying tribute to residential and commercial buildings that had slipped from public view, Shulman`s stunning photographs uncovered a rarely seen side of California Modernism. This extensive, three-volume follow-up to that remarkable volume brings over 400 more architectural gems into the spotlight. Not just restricted to the West Coast this time, the images were taken all across the United States as well as in Mexico, Israel, and Hong Kong. Read more
Product Description: All of Richard Neutra’s works gathered together in one volume Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship Read more
Case Study Houses
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Amazon Review: The first thing you notice about Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, 1945-1966 is its size: it’s big. Contained within its 16-inch frame is the history of Arts & Architecture magazine’s famed program created to inspire the building of low-cost modern homes in America. The brainchild of magazine editor John Entenza, the program drew well-known architects including Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Richard Neutra. Read more
The Architecture of John Lautner
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Product Description: John Lautner is recognized as one of the foremost architects who practiced at the height of the modern movement. In The Architecture of John Lautner, stunning photography and insightful text illuminate the work of this modern master. This revised and condensed reprint of the Rizzoli title of the same name outlines all of Lautner’s residential projects and details his career from his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright Read more
Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner
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REVIEWS: “The authors succeed not only in communicating why Lautner was important, but why his explorations of form and structure were inevitable, given the vast postwar changes in society…beautifully illustrated and laid out…” FROM Modernism
“This prized volume is more than a mere “beauty book.” While marveling at how gorgeous sweeping concrete can be, one is also afforded how it can be, with a look at detailed Read more
Product Description: In Australia, many aspects of architectural Modernism have been transformed, interpreted, used, reformed and converted to that country’s very particular geographic qualities, perhaps to a greater degree than in most other countries. Read more
Vertical Gardens
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Product Description: Bringing nature into urban environments has always been a challenge; one of the most spectacular solutions to this problem is the vertical garden. Far more than just an unusual decoration attached to a wall, these gardens are an exciting means of bringing life and greenery to a bleak courtyard, a gray city street or a cold modern building. Read more
Paris Changing
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Product Description: Between 1888 and 1927 Eugène Atget meticulously photographed Paris and its environments, capturing in thousands of photographs the city’s parks, streets, and buildings as well as its diverse inhabitants. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the late 90s revisiting and re-photographing many of Atget’s locations. Read more
Architectural Voices
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Product Description: If a building could speak, what would it say? What would it sound like? Would it be worth listening to? This book treats buildings as deeply human creations - built by people for people; they come to embody the dreams, imaginings and stories that take place within them. Read more
Concrete Toronto
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Product Description: In the sixties, architecture fell in love with concrete. Architecture has since shifted its fondness to glass and steel, and concrete buildings have fallen out of favor and into disrepair. But they represent an exciting era of faith in architecture and technical innovation that has yet to be documented. Concrete Toronto acts as a guidebook to the city’s extensive concrete heritage. Read more