false 120936 625379 1885254857 9781885254856 1 <![CDATA[New York 1960]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176428791m/625379.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176428791s/625379.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625379.New_York_1960 4.12 8 New York 1880, New York 1900, and New York 1930 have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.

The post-World War II era witnessed New York's reign as the unofficial but undisputed economic and artistic capital of the world. By the mid-1970s, the city had experienced a profound reversal, and both its economy and its reputation were at a historic nadir. The architectural history of the period offered an exceptionally abundant and varied mix of building styles and types, from the faltering traditionalism of the 1940s through the heyday of International Style modernism in the 1950s and 1960s to the incipient postmodernism of the 1970s.

Organized geographically, New York 1960 provides an encyclopedic survey of the city's postwar architecture as well as relating a coherent story about each of its diverse neighborhoods. Primary sources are emphasized, including the commentaries of the preeminent architecture critics of the day; the text is illustrated exclusively with a rich collection of period photographs.]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 16832 4.38 13 1 171164 4.36 14 1 1995 29841 1580931774 9781580931779 0 <![CDATA[New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism from the Bicentennial to the Millennium]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168047491m/29841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168047491s/29841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29841.New_York_2000_Architecture_and_Urbanism_from_the_Bicentennial_to_the_Millennium 4.57 7 New York 2000 documents the milestones in the city's architectural history--the development of Battery Park City, the rebirth of Harlem and Times Square, the creation of the cultural precinct around the new MoMA, the reclaiming of the waterfront along the East and Hudson Rivers as recreational parkland--and celebrates the achievements of internationally recognized architects including Sir Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier, and Renzo Piano.

]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 2006 1569425 0847818381 9780847818389 0 <![CDATA[New York 1930: Architecture Between the Two World Wars]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185326372m/1569425.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185326372s/1569425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1569425.New_York_1930_Architecture_Between_the_Two_World_Wars 4.67 6 </div>]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 171164 4.36 14 1 1988 296510 1580930271 9781580930277 0 <![CDATA[New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173484033m/296510.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173484033s/296510.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296510.New_York_1880_Architecture_and_Urbanism_in_the_Gilded_Age 4.80 5 New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century.

In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the beginning of European modernism -- to trace the earlier history of the city. This dynamic era saw the technological advances and acts of civic and private will that formed the identity of New York City as we know it today. The installation of water, telephone, and electricity infrastructures as well as the advent of electric lighting, the elevator, and mass transit allowed the city to grow both out and up. The office building and apartment house types were envisioned and defined, changing the ways that New Yorkers worked and lived. Such massive public projects as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became realities, along with such private efforts as Grand Central Station.

Like the other three volumes, New York 1880 is an in-depth presentation of the buildings and plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. A broad range of primary sources -- critics and writers, architects, planners, city officials -- brings the time period to life and allows the city to tell its own complex story. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs, which show the city as it was, and as some parts of it still are.]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 16832 4.38 13 1 1999 2048675 0395366968 9780395366967 0 <![CDATA[Pride of Place: Building the American Dream]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231353979m/2048675.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231353979s/2048675.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2048675.Pride_of_Place_Building_the_American_Dream 4.00 3 120936 4.47 40 3 1988 118212 1580931669 9781580931663 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern: Houses and Gardens]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171748299m/118212.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171748299s/118212.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118212.Robert_A_M_Stern_Houses_and_Gardens 4.50 2 Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, was first recognized for its distinguished houses, and residential design remains the cornerstone of the practice. This beautifully illustrated monograph—a companion to the best-selling Robert A. M. Stern: Houses—presents twenty-six of the firm's most memorable houses.

Located in diverse settings across North America—from a valley in Colorado with sweeping views of the Aspen mountains, to a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound, to an island off the coast of British Columbia—these remarkable houses reveal the architect's emphasis on the importance of context and his dedication to exploring the nature of place. Each house invokes the vernacular architectural heritage particular to its region, while gracefully reflecting its unique natural surroundings. Whether they are shingle style "cottages" by the sea, colonial Georgian country estates, or elegant Regency designs, Stern's houses are unique both for their timelessness and their ability to evoke a conversation with the past—a dialogue he believes lies at the heart of architecture.

]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 2005 114359 0847819345 9780847819348 0 <![CDATA[New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171686372m/114359.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171686372s/114359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114359.New_York_1900_Metropolitan_Architecture_and_Urbanism_1890_1915 4.50 2 </div>]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 1992 5861289 030015092X 9780300150926 1 <![CDATA[Writings on Architecture]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5861289.Writings_on_Architecture 4.50 2 913726 4.57 7 1 120936 4.47 40 3 2008 927310 0393730875 9780393730876 0 <![CDATA[The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179519639m/927310.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179519639s/927310.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/927310.The_Architecture_of_Delano_Aldrich 5.00 1 This book portrays the unprecedented talent and vision that led the architecture firm of Delano & Aldrich to the top of its field at the beginning of the twentieth century. Eighteen buildings are examined in detail, and the firm's complete oeuvre is cataloged, with more than 250 photographs and drawings spanning the full breadth of their work. 250 b/w illustrations.

]]> 416294 5.00 1 0 120936 4.47 40 3 381053 4.50 2 0 2003 1291253 084781369X 9780847813698 0 <![CDATA[House That Bob Built]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1291253.House_That_Bob_Built 5.00 1 120936 4.47 40 3 1991 704546 0393730654 9780393730654 1 <![CDATA[Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177446367m/704546.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177446367s/704546.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704546.Cass_Gilbert_Life_and_Work_Architect_of_the_Public_Domain 5.00 1 375880 5.00 1 1 120936 4.47 40 3 2001 1015749 1580931928 9781580931922 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Towns]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1015749.Robert_A_M_Stern_Buildings_and_Towns 4.00 1 Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the past twenty years. The sequel to the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings (1996), this volume also incorporates master plans for towns and campuses.

Among the sixty-five featured projects are the Miami Beach Public Library, the new campus for the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, multiple projects for Disney including the Ambassador Hotel in Japan, and a range of apartment towers culminating with 15 Central Park West, the largest residential structure in New York City, opening in fall 2007.

]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 2007 2520756 0289796288 9780289796283 0 <![CDATA[NEW DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2520756.NEW_DIRECTIONS_IN_AMERICAN_ARCHITECTURE 4.00 1 120936 4.47 40 3 1970 1465874 1885254415 9781885254412 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern Buildings]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465874.Robert_A_M_Stern_Buildings 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1996 3917455 0847808963 9780847808960 0 <![CDATA[American Architecture: Innovation and Tradition]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3917455.American_Architecture_Innovation_and_Tradition 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 210891 4.67 3 0 651217 0.0 0 0 1986 118214 0847814335 9780847814336 0 <![CDATA[The American Houses of Robert A. M. Stern]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171748300m/118214.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171748300s/118214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118214.The_American_Houses_of_Robert_A_M_Stern 0.0 0
The American Houses of Robert A.M. Stern presents thirty-one of his most significant houses in the United States. This diverse group, which ranges in location from the seaside to the mountains to the city, displays the important characteristics of Stern's architecture: a sympathetic relationship to the site, a richness of plan and spatial complexity, a distinctive use of natural light, and elegant interior detail. As demonstrated by the projects presented here-- generously illustrated through color photographs, drawings, and watercolors-- the architect has created in each house a complete domestic world for his clients to inhabit. The visual presentation of the houses is accompanied by an introduction which provides an overview of the common themes in the architect's work, and a project list, which includes detailed information about each project.
</div>]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 1991 831115 0967914361 9780967914367 0 <![CDATA[David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178745139m/831115.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178745139s/831115.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/831115.David_M_Schwarz_Architectural_Services 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 2008 1464809 0847816184 9780847816187 0 <![CDATA[Robert A M Stern]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1464809.Robert_A_M_Stern 0.0 0
This comprehensive volume, which follows the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern 1965-1980 and Robert A. M. Stern 1981-1986, covers Stern's recent built work, significant unrealized designs, and projects now under construction.

Robert A. M. Stern is principal of Robert A. M. Stern Architects in New York, professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and author of New York 1900 and New York 1930.
</div>]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 1992 1465892 0847808483 9780847808489 0 <![CDATA[Modern Classicism]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1465892.Modern_Classicism 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1988 5698433 0312071477 9780312071479 0 <![CDATA[Robert AM Stern: Selected Works (Architectural Monographs No 17)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5698433.Robert_AM_Stern_Selected_Works 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 95275 3.45 98 19 1992 206775 0926494171 9780926494176 0 <![CDATA[The Architecture of Charles A. Platt (Acanthus Press Reprint Series. 20th Century, Landmarks in Design, V. 8.)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172682349m/206775.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172682349s/206775.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206775.The_Architecture_of_Charles_A_Platt 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1998 659491 0847807045 9780847807048 0 <![CDATA[Robert A M Stern 1981-1986]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659491.Robert_A_M_Stern_1981_1986 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1990 3445044 1854900110 9781854900111 0 <![CDATA[Robert AM Stern (Architectural Monographs No 17)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3445044.Robert_AM_Stern 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1991 2497598 0300016425 9780300016420 0 <![CDATA[George Howe]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2497598.George_Howe 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1975 98748 1580930174 9781580930178 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern: 1993-1998]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171427452m/98748.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171427452s/98748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98748.Robert_A_M_Stern_1993_1998 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1998 324953 1885254687 9781885254689 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern Houses]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173759253m/324953.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173759253s/324953.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324953.Robert_A_M_Stern_Houses 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1998 4855549 1580932142 9781580932141 0 <![CDATA[The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4855549.The_Philip_Johnson_Tapes_Interviews_by_Robert_A_M_Stern 0.0 0
Philip Johnson's multifaceted career as an architect, curator, and collector extended from the early 1920s to his death in 2005. Captivated by the work of the European modernists Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Johnson assembled the seminal exhibition "Modern Architecture—International Exhibition" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932. Among his most notable achievements are the famous Glass House in Connecticut, designed for his own use, and the Seagram Building in New York, in association with Mies van der Rohe.

Recognized as the dean of American architecture, Johnson had a profound influence on the next generation of architects, including Robert A. M. Stern. Stern has conducted a series of ten interviews with Johnson, each covering a decade of his life, that provide an illuminating assessment of a significant period of American architecture.]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 2008 1569428 3822877417 9783822877418 0 <![CDATA[New York Architecture and Urbanism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185326374m/1569428.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185326374s/1569428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1569428.New_York_Architecture_and_Urbanism 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 37865 3.98 94 6 171164 4.36 14 1 1998 6995039 1580932347 9781580932349 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings & Projects 2004-2009]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6995039-robert-a-m-stern 0.0 0 I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, “appropriate.” Appropriate from every point of view, especially from the site, the cultural expectations of a community and of the specific client.
—Robert A. M. Stern

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to an architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. This monograph, the fifth volume since Stern opened his practice in 1969, explores the application of this principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, towers, and private residences.

Focused on the years 2004 through 2009, an exceptionally productive period for Stern’s firm, this volume includes designs for the Miami Beach, Jacksonville, and Clearwater Public Libraries in Florida, the vast Zubiarte retail complex in Bilbao, Spain, two new residential colleges at Yale University, the widely acclaimed 15 Central Park West condominium in New York, Comcast, a crystalline addition to the Philadelphia skyline, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.

In a conversation with renowned architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Stern discusses the principles that have guided the firm since its inception, focusing on the collaborative nature of the work and the importance of precedent and context. He also describes his own role as an educator, as dean of the architecture school at Yale University, and his deep interest in the history of architecture, first awakened during his student days at Yale.]]> 120936 4.47 40 3 99300 3.96 25 1 981609 0.0 0 0 2009 2503535 1883584019 9781883584016 0 <![CDATA[D: Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2503535.D_Columbia_Documents_of_Architecture_and_Theory 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 45251 4.05 93 8 1994 951043 1580931219 9781580931212 0 <![CDATA[Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179747991m/951043.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179747991s/951043.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/951043.Robert_A_M_Stern_Buildings_and_Projects_1999_2003 0.0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 2004 3127859 0870119060 9780870119064 0 <![CDATA[Images of Fin-De-Siecle Architecture and Interior Decoration]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3127859.Images_of_Fin_De_Siecle_Architecture_and_Interior_Decoration 0.0 0 867932 4.67 3 0 120936 4.47 40 3 598804 2.00 1 0 1988 4696885 1580930158 9781580930154 0 <![CDATA[Gwathmey Siegel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4696885.Gwathmey_Siegel 0.0 0 But because GS's residential projects, as diversely striking as they are, continuously manage to look (especially from the outside) like anything but places where people actually live, the book's subsequent sections offer almost a sense of relief--these are the kinds of projects at which the firm excels, and those upon which it has built its considerable reputation: the gleaming, Meier-esque white tiles and columns of its 1987 office building for IBM in Greensboro, North Carolina; an ingenious new set of unapologetically modern innards (1973) jutting out of the august, old stone exterior of Princeton University's Whig Hall, whose original wood interior was destroyed in a fire; an elegantly high-tech Science, Industry and Business Library for New York City (1996); blond wood, luminous marble, and stainless steel fitted inside the 1911 Beaux Arts envelope of the former B. Altman department store; and--perhaps the firm's most high-profile (and controversial) commission to date--the 1992 renovation and addition to Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark Guggenheim Museum, also in New York City--an undertaking that managed to vastly increase the museum's gallery and administrative space and address omissions or weaknesses in the original structure, all while linking it to a discreetly handsome limestone rectilinear addition that deferred not to a gamut of political interests but to Wright's original plans for a proposed annex.

Many other notable projects are included in the book as well, including an array of new buildings for Cornell University and an addition to Harvard's venerable Fogg Museum, not to mention the warm-toned Museum of Contemporary Art (1996) that has redefined downtown Miami, and a renovation/addition for the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (1997). A complex multivolume, multilevel, multiline configuration that somehow manages remarkably to leave the gallery's charming, original red-brick structure from 1927 as its centerpiece, it is this last entry which serves as a fitting final reminder that no one takes simple shapes and fashions them into something chic, clean, and clever quite as deftly or respectfully as Gwathmey Siegel. --Timothy Murphy

]]> 99300 3.96 25 1 120936 4.47 40 3 2000 2265454 0394502620 9780394502625 0 <![CDATA[The architect's eye: American architectural drawings from 1799-1978]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2265454.The_architect_s_eye_American_architectural_drawings_from_1799_1978 0.0 0 586455 0.0 0 0 120936 4.47 40 3 1979