Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, a connoisseur of materials. In his lifetime he was often dismissed as "merely" an artist who also wanted to build. Today, however, it is clear that his own brand of Modernism made him one of the 20th-century architectural greats....
Classic study of the craft and form of Japanese domestic architecture. Provides insight on construction, philosophy, and history of residential architecture in Japan. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout.
Catalogue to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that explored sociocultural implications of Italian product design "environments." Contributions by Argan, Tafuri, Portoghesi, Gregotti, among others. All 5 loose paper cut outs are present. With original dust jacket.
Surveys the work of four Los Angeles modernists who picked-up where Schindler & Neutra left off: J.R. Davidson, H.H. Harris, Gregory Ain and Raphael Soriano.
Finnish Summer Houses presents twenty villas, cottages, and cabins in detail by architects such as Eliel Saarinen, Oiva Kallio, Alvar Aalto, and Juhani Pallasmaa, among many others. Authors Jari and Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen use contemporary photographs, archival images, drawings, and plans to illustrate the diversity found in the designs of Finnish...
Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence.
A very telling book dealing with the sketches and notes of the great landscape architect. Introduction by Jim Burns.
GA A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, January 1975
Bruce Goff
Bavinger House, Norman, Oklahoma. 1950
Price House, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. 1957-1966
Edited and Photographed by Yukio Futagawa
Text by Bruce Goff
Jean Prouvé belongs to the generation of "sons" of the Nancy School, and from this rich heritage, he retained the creative principles and methods of enlightened craftsmanship. In Lorraine, all facets of Jean Prouvé's work are illustrated, as well as experiences that take on particular importance there: indeed, most of...
First U.S. edition. Beautiful, oversize volume covers his multi-faceted career in Finland ranging from graphics and furniture design to rustic villas and urban planning. First MIT Press Edition.