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Architectural History/Historic Preservation
All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.
Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
38 color ills.; 34 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300163339)
Allen, Stan.
Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation, 2nd ed..
New York:
Routledge,
2008.
288 pp.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$49.95
(9780415776257)
Arnold, Dieter.
Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2009.
270 pp.; 170 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300123449)
Barnes, Jr., Carl F.
The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093): A New Critical Edition and Color Facsimile.
Burlington, Vt.:
Ashgate,
2009.
424 pp.; 72 color ills.; 48 b/w ills.
Cloth
$144.95
(9780754651024)
Baron, Françoise, Sophie Jugie, and Benoît Lafay.
Les Tombeaux des ducs de Bourgogne.
Paris and Dijon:
Somogy Éditions d’Art and Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon,
2010.
232 pp.; 185 ills.
Paper
€35.00
(9782757202944)
Barrie, Thomas.
The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture.
New York:
Routledge,
2010.
288 pp.; 47 b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9780415779647)
Baxter, Denise Amy, and Meredith Martin, eds.
Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe : Constructing Identities and Interiors.
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate,
2010.
51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$114.95
(9780754666509)
Bhatia, Neeraj, and Jurgen Mayer H., eds.
Arium: Weather and Architecture.
Ostfildern :
Hatje Cantz Verlag,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9783775725408)
Biron, Rebecca E., ed.
City/Art: The Urban Scene in Latin America.
Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press,
2009.
288 pp.; 39 b/w ills.
Paper
$23.95
(9780822344704)
Branfoot, Crispin.
Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple.
London:
Society for South Asian Studies and British Academy,
2007.
296 pp.; 17 color ills.; 217 b/w ills.
Cloth
£ 30.00
(9780955392412)
Brey, Ilaria Dagnini.
The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art during World War II.
New York:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2009.
304 pp.; few b/w ills.
Cloth
$25.00
(9780374283094)
Brunskill, R W.
Traditional Farm Buildings and Their Conservation.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2007.
208 pp.; 144 b/w ills.
Paperback
$40.00
(9780300123197)
Buntrock, Dana.
Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today.
New York:
Routledge,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$62.95
(9780415778916)
Burioni, Matteo.
Die Renaissance der Architekten: Profession und Souveränität des Baukünstlers in Giorgio Vasaris Viten.
Berlin:
Gebr. Mann Verlag,
2009.
206 pp.; 32 b/w ills.
Cloth
€59.00
(9783786125594 )
Caneva, Giulia, Maria Pia Nugari, and Ornella Salvadori, eds.
Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation.
Los Angeles:
Getty Conservation Institute,
2010.
400 pp.; 169 color ills.; 107 b/w ills.
Paper
$70.00
(9780892369393)
Cartiere, Cameron, and Shelly Willis, eds.
The Practice of Public Art.
New York:
Routledge,
2009.
286 pp.; 22 b/w ills.
Cloth
$100.00
(9780415962926)
Casotti, Maria Walcher.
Vignola: nel quinto centenario della nascita.
Mariano del Friuli, Italy:
Edizioni Della Laguna,
2010.
176 pp.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
€25.00
(9788883452833)
Cavi, Sabina de.
Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592–1627).
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2010.
530 pp.; 25 color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$89.99
(9781443801805)
Cuno, James, Paul Goldberger, and Joseph Rosa.
The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Chicago:
Art Institute of Chicago,
2010.
168 pp.; 167 color ills.; 23 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300141122)
De Long, David G., ed.
Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2010.
192 pp.; 119 color ills.; 14 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780812241617)
Dhar, Parul Pandya.
The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture.
D. K. Printworld (P) Limited,
2010.
317 pp.; 359 ills.
Cloth
$140.00
(9788124605349)
Edwards, Brian.
Understanding Architecture Through Drawing, 2nd ed..
Abingdon, UK:
Taylor & Francis,
2009.
272 pp.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$44.95
(9780415444149)
Eggert, Paul.
Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture, and Literature.
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
302 pp.; 29 b/w ills.
Paper
$31.99
(9780521725910)
Gül, Murat.
The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City.
London:
Tauris Academic Studies,
2009.
256 pp.; 48 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9781845119355)
Gerbino, Anthony, and Stephen Johnston.
Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500–1700.
Exh. cat.
Oxford and New Haven:
Museum of the History of Science, Yale University Press, and Yale Center for British Art,
2009.
192 pp.; 120 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300150933)
Goldberger, Paul.
Why Architecture Matters.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
296 pp.; 55 b/w ills.
Cloth
$26.00
(9780300144307)
Golec, Michael J., and Aron Vinegar, eds.
Relearning from Las Vegas.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
232 pp.; few b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780816650613)
Goode, Patrick, ed.
The Oxford Companion to Architecture.
New York:
Oxford University Press,
2010.
Cloth
$295.00
(9780198605683)
Gordon, Alastair.
Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
320 pp.; 105 b/w ills.
Paper
$17.00
(9780226304564)
Goy, Richard.
Venice: An Architectural Guide.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
100 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$28.00
(9780300148824)
Grigor, Talinn.
Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs.
New York:
Periscope Publishing,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9781934772782)
Guillaume, Jean, and Peter Fuhring.
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: un des plus grands architectes qui se soient jamais trouvés en France.
Exh. cat.
Paris:
Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine and Picard,
2010.
352 pp.; 416 ills.
Cloth
€85.00
(9782708408692)
Hamadeh, Shirine.
The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2009.
368 pp.; 8 color ills.; 97 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295986678)
Hill, Rosemary.
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
656 pp.; 31 color ills.; 32 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300151619)
Hiscock, Nigel.
The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
442 pp.; 191 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754663003)
Hornsey, Richard.
The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
328 pp.; 44 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780816653157)
Hough, Jessica, and Monica Ramirez-Montagut, eds.
Revisiting the Glass House: Contemporary Art and Modern Architecture.
Exh. cat.
Ridgefield, Conn., Oakland, and New Haven:
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Mills College Art Museum and Yale University Press,
2009.
134 pp.; 89 color ills.; 11 b/w ills.
Paper
$39.95
(9780300135879)
Howard, Deborah, and Laura Moretti.
Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
368 pp.; 20 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780300148749)
Hung, Wu.
The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs.
Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press,
2010.
83 color ills.; 147 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780824834265)
Jacob, Mary Jane, and Michelle Grabner, eds.
The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
69 b/w ills.
Cloth
$25.00
(9780226389615)
Kafescioğlu, Çiğdem.
Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
346 pp.; 8 color ills.; 154 b/w ills.
Cloth
$100.00
(9780271027760)
Kelly, Jason M.
The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
43 color ills.; 125 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300152197)
Klug, Sabine.
Das Ende des rechten Winkels: Wilhelm Ulrich und die hexagonalen Baukonzepte in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Zurich:
Georg Olms Verlag,
2009.
476 pp.; 26 color ills.; 296 b/w ills.
Cloth
€98.00
(9783487136967)
Krieger, Alex, and William S. Saunders, eds.
Urban Design.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
392 pp.; 48 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780816656394)
Lejeune, Jean-François, and Michelangelo Sabatino, eds.
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities.
New York:
Routledge,
2010.
320 pp.; 50 color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Paper
$53.95
(9780415776349)
Levine, Neil.
Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
376 pp.; 30 color ills.; 311 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300145670)
Li, T. June, ed.
Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington's Chinese Gardens.
San Marino, Calif.:
Huntington Library,
2009.
130 pp.; 120 color ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780873281751)
Longstreth, Richard, ed.
Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
256 pp.; 76 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780816650996)
Lorance, Loretta.
Becoming Bucky Fuller.
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press,
2009.
304 pp.; 7 color ills.; 59 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780262123020)
Luescher, Andreas.
The Architect's Portfolio: Planning, Design, Production.
New York:
Routledge,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780415779012)
Martin, Reinhold.
Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota,
2010.
272 pp.; Few b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780816669639)
McEnroe, John C.
Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age.
Austin:
University of Texas Press,
2010.
8 color ills.; 204 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780292721937)
McGregor, James H.S.
Venice From the Ground Up.
Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
311 pp.; 110 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
Paper
$18.95
(9780674027527)
Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
208 pp.; 89 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780226520780)
Meyer, Esther da Costa.
Frank Gehry: On Line.
Exh. cat.
Princeton:
Princeton University Art Museum,
2009.
108 pp.; 24 color ills.; 23 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780300122145)
Mikellides, Byron, and Tom Porter, eds.
Colour for Architecture Today.
Abingdon, UK:
Taylor & Francis,
2009.
192 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$53.95
(9780415438155)
Milwright, Marcus.
An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology.
The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys.
Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press,
2010.
320 pp.; 68 ills.
Paper
$32.95
(9780748623112)
Minor, Heather Hyde.
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2010.
312 pp.; 36 color ills.; 112 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780271035642)
Muñoz, Alicia House.
Congreso Internacional "Ciudades Amuralladas": Celebrado En Pamplona Del 24 Al 26 De Noviembre De 2005.
Pamplona:
Gobierno de Navarra,
2007.
305 pp.; few color ills.; few b/w ills.
Cloth
€40.00
(9788423529902)
Mumford, Eric.
Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937–69.
Washington D.C.:
National Gallery of Art, Center,
2009.
262 pp.; 15 color ills.; 91 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780300138887)
Neville, Kristoffer.
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder: Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness.
Architectura Moderna, vol. 7. Edited by Krista De Jonge and Piet Lombaerde.
Turnhout:
Brepolis Publishers,
2010.
146 b/w ills.
Paper
€85.00
(9782503528267)
Oshima, Ken Tadashi.
International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2010.
320 pp.; 20 color ills.; 200 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295989440)
Otero-Pailos, Jorge.
Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota,
2010.
356 pp.; 12 color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780816666041)
Ovenden, Mark.
Paris Underground: The Maps, Stations, and Design of the Métro.
New York:
Penguin Books,
2009.
176 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780143116394)
Paletz, David L., ed.
Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It.
Media and Power.
Boulder:
Paradigm Publishers,
2010.
240 pp.; 12 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9781594514654)
Pearson, Christopher E.M., ed.
Designing UNESCO : Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century.
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate,
2010.
37 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754667834)
Pericoli, Matteo.
The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York.
New York:
Simon and Schuster,
2009.
132 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$21.99
(9781416569909)
Pevsner, Nikolaus.
Visual Planning and the Picturesque.
Ed. Mathew Aitchison.
Los Angeles:
Getty Research Institute,
2010.
232 pp.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9781606060018)
Henri Jova: An Architect's Life.
Atlanta, Ga.:
Atlanta History Center,
2009.
516 pp.
Cloth
$50.00
(9781883828028)
Rush, Fred.
On Architecture.
New York:
Routledge,
2009.
200 pp.; 16 b/w ills.
Paper
$21.95
(9780415396196)
Sabatino, Michelangelo.
Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy.
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press,
2010.
Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780802097057)
Sacks, Oliver, and Christopher Payne.
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.
Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press,
2009.
216 pp.; 111 color ills.; 130 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780262013499 )
Britton, Karla, and Marc Treib.
Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff.
Ed. Dean Sakamoto.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with The Honolulu Academy of Arts,
2008.
304 pp.; 36 color ills.; 246 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300121469)
Sammons, Tania June.
The Owens-Thomas House.
Savannah, Ga.:
Telfair Museum of Art,
2008.
64 pp.
Cloth
$12.95
(9780933075108)
Savage, Kirk.
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2009.
408 pp.; 126 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780520256545)
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe.
New York:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
288 pp.; Few b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780230603295 )
Shanken, Andrew M.
194X: Architecture, Planning and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
264 pp.; 13 color ills.; 96 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780816653669)
Sherman, Roger.
L.A. under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
Many b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9780816649471)
Stern, Robert A. M.
Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected Essays, 1964–1988.
Ed. Cynthia Davidson.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
216 pp.; 93 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780300153972)
Stewart, Rachel.
The Town House in Georgian London.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
192 pp.; 20 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300152777)
Stubbs, John H.
Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation.
Hoboken, NJ:
John Wiley & Sons,
2009.
448 pp.; 300 ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780470260494)
Toker, Franklin.
On Holy Ground: Liturgy, Architecture and Urbanism in the Cathedral and the Streets of Medieval Florence.
Vol 1. The Florence Duomo Project.
Turnhout:
Harvey Miller,
2010.
328 pp.; 52 b/w ills.
Cloth
€110.00
(9781905375516)
Trachtenberg, Marvin.
Building in Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
400 pp.; 60 color ills.; 250 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300165920)
Tuan, Yi-Fu.
Religion: From Place to Placelessness.
Chicago:
Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago,
2010.
168 pp.; 42 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9781930066946)
Unwin, Simon.
Analysing Architecture, 3rd ed..
London:
Routledge,
2009.
296 pp.; 53 b/w ills.
Paper
$44.95
(9780415489287)
Vinegar, Aron.
I Am A Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas.
Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press,
2010.
208 pp.; 82 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780262220828)
Williams, Richard J.
Brazil.
London:
Reaktion Books,
2009.
288 pp.; 190 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9781861894007)
Wittman, Richard.
Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France.
New York:
Routledge,
2007.
304 pp.
Cloth
$165.00
(9780415774635)
Wolf, Eric M.
American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design.
New York:
W.W. Norton and Company,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780393732801)
Ćurĉić, Slobodan, and Evangelia Hadjitryphonos, eds.
Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art.
Exh. cat.
Princeton:
Princeton University Art Museum,
2010.
376 pp.; 185 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300122114)