1984, McGraw-Hill, NY. Impressive hardcover title, 246 pages. Printed on lightly coated stock; b&amp;w photos, sketches, architectural plans throughout. Full-color gallery, 8 pages, presents never-before-published photos and drawings. 400 total illustrations in all. Here is a superb volume, the 75th anniversary of the Gold Medal and the 125th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects. Profiles are given for significant architects who receive the medal from 1907 to 1983. Here are such geniuses as Frank Lloyd Wright, William Adams Delano, Le Corbusier, Pier Luigi Nervi, Kenzo Tange, Buckminster Fuller, Ieoh Ming Pei, and numerous others. Beautifully done, a handsome title.

The AIA Gold Medal

Arts & Photography

Wilson, Richard Guy.

Architecture

McGraw=Hill

A "palace" ruled by a "queen," Harbor Hill in Roslyn, Long Island, was commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men. The mansion along with its magnificent furnishings, art, gardens, and the owners' striving, hubris, and ultimate failure are the dramatis personae of this saga. Stanford White, the architect, wrote, "with the exception of Biltmore, I do not think there will be an estate equal to it in the country." An extravagant product of the desire for social acceptance, the portrait encompasses western mining and old versus new wealth, religious differences and the building of a church, art collecting, and the many people, from the architects, builders, and workers to the servants and staff who ran the house and gardens. Harbor Hill's story includes elements of farce and tragedy; in a sense it is an American portrait. 9 color, 219 b&amp;w illustrations

Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House

Graphic Design

W.W.Norton&Company

Long hailed as a supreme example of American city planning, Monument Avenue is home to some of Richmond, Virginia's, most prestigious houses and distinguished architecture--and to the unique procession of statues from which the street takes its name. Initially planned in 1890 around a memorial to Robert E. Lee, over the next four decades the avenue evolved into a parade of statues honoring heroes of the Confederacy. In the mid-1990s, however, the dedication of a controversial memorial to African American tennis player Arthur Ashe signaled that Monument Avenue's meaning had broadened beyond commemorating the Lost Cause. This book traces the history of Monument Avenue, of its buildings and statuary, and of the people who helped create one of America's great streets. Enriched by more than three hundred photographs, plans, and drawings, it chronicles the avenue's development, captures architectural details and city preservation efforts, and places the avenue's story in local, regional, and national context. Built to reflect the hopes and attitudes of Richmonders at the turn of the last century, Monument Avenue exists nearly intact today as the centerpiece of a flourishing neighborhood, even as its meaning continues to be redefined.

Richmond's Monument Avenue

History

Driggs, Sarah Shields

Winthrop, Robert P.

Americas

The University of North Carolina Press

The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941

Science & Math

Dianne H. Pilgrim & Dickran Tashjian

Technology

Brooklyn Museum / Abrams

The Prairie School in Iowa (Iowa Heritage Collection)

Robinson, Sidney K.

Iowa State Pr

Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia is widely hailed as a masterpiece. It is his greatest architectural accomplishment, the summation of his quest for intellectual freedom. The story of the University encompasses the political and architectural worlds, as Jeffeson struggled against great opposition to establish a new type of educational institution. Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village offers a comprehensive look at Jefferson's design for the University, at how it came into being, at the different perecptions of its successes and failures, and at the alterations that have taken place down through the years.
The revised edition incorporates research that has been ongoing since the book first appeared in 1993, and includes a preface by Richard Guy Wilson, essays on architecture and education and the Lawn, additional architectural drawings and historic photographs, a foreword by President John T. Casteen III, and numerous color illustrations.

Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

University of Virginia Press

Victorian Resorts and Hotels: Essays from a Victorian Society, Autumn Symposium

Victorian Society in Amer

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic home, one can see the influence of Wharton’s inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount’s impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself. The Mount sits in the rolling landscape of the Berkshire Hills, with views overlooking Laurel Lake and all the way out to the mountains. At the turn of the century, Lenox and Stockbridge were thriving summer resort communities, home to Vanderbilts, Sloanes, and other prominent families of the Gilded Age. At once a leader and a recorder of this glamorous society, Edith Wharton stands at the pinnacle of turn of the twentieth-century American literature and social history. The Mount was crucial to her success, and the story of her life there is filled with gatherings of literary figures and artists. Edith Wharton at Home presents Wharton’s life at The Mount in vivid detail with authoritative text by Richard Guy Wilson and archival images, as well as new color photography of the restoration of The Mount and its spectacular gardens. "The Mount was to give me country cares and joys, long happy rides and drives through the wooded lanes of that loveliest region, the companionship of dear friends, and the freedom from trivial obligations, which was necessary if I was to go on with my writing. The Mount was my first real home . . . its blessed influence still lives in me." —Edith Wharton, 1934

Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The Monacelli Press

Very clean, in a very good condition, no notes or highlighting inside, it is in a very good shape, ship fast.

University of Virginia Campus Guide

Princeton Architectural Pr

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