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Architecture & Design

1. Comparative Architectural Details: A Selection from Pencil Points 1932-1937

   Milton Wilfred Grenfell

   Architectural details from an architectural journal of the 1930s indispensable to everyone in the drafting room today.More

2. American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design

   Eric M. Wolf

   Exploring the intersections of art, architecture, and design, at both renowned institutions and cutting-edge contemporary collections.More

3. Charles Rennie Mackintosh

   James Macaulay, Mark Fiennes

   A major architectural study of one of the pioneers of modernism.More

4. Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage

   Cathryn Griffith, Dick Cluster, Eusebio Leal Spengler

   This beautifully illustrated book documents the history, preservation, and present uses of Havana’s most important buildings and urban spaces.More

5. Great Public Squares: An Architect's Selection

   Robert F. Gatje

   Forty outstanding urban spaces of the Western world, analyzed and drawn at a common scale for easy comparison.More

6. Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages

   Annie Robinson

   A view of the resort and leisure architecture of one of the most popular and prolific firms of the Gilded Age.More

7. Urban Integration / Bishopsgate Good Yards: Johnson, Nick and FAT Architects

   Yale School of Architecture, Andrei Harwell, Lydia Miller, Et Al.

   The fourth book in this series records the collaboration of Nick Johnson, development director of Urban Splash, Manchester, with Kahn Visiting Professors Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland, and Sam Jacob, who worked with a studio of Yale students to investigate alternative possibilities for development of the derelict Bishopsgate Goods Yard in East London.More

8. Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology

   Donald Friedman

   Second Edition

   An updated edition of the classic text detailing the ins and outs of old building construction.More

9. Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Albert E. Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson

   Saxon Henry

   A colorful survey explores the diverse styles of the arbiters of modernism in Florida.More

10. Dams

    Christine Macy

    A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States.More

11. Tadelakt

    Michael Johannes Ochs

    The first comprehensive description of an old Moroccan plaster technique that creates unique, sensual, natural effects.More

12. Animals in Stone: Architectural Sculpture in New York City

    Robert Arthur King

    A delightful collection of creatures that adorn New York City buildings.More

13. Arts and Crafts Rugs for Craftsman Interiors: The Crab Tree Farm Collection

    David Cathers, Linda Parry, Diane Boucher, Et Al.

    Gustav Stickley is revered not only as a furniture maker but also as a leading proponent for the American Arts and Crafts movement.More

14. Negotiated Terrains

    Yale School of Architecture, Heather Kilmer, Nina Rappaport

    Negotiated Terrains is the second book that features the work of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors, a chairmanship endowed in 2004 to bring young innovators in architectural design to the Yale School of Architecture.More

15. The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation

    Steven W. Semes

    A comprehensive and eloquent argument for “new traditional” architecture that preserves the style and character of historic buildings.More