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Michael Graves Images of a Grand Tour In 1960, before his skyscrapers and teapots made him a household name, Michael Graves set out on a journey once consider ...	Quonset Hut Metal Living for a Modern Age When World War II came along, the American military found itself in need of a prefabricated, lightweight shelter that co ...	Le Corbusier, Homme de Lettres On his French identity card, legendary architect Le Corbusier listed his profession as "Homme de Lettres" (Man of Letter ...
Inside the Rainbow Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times Inside the Rainbow reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet-era picture books from the 1920s ...	Mellon Square Discovering a Modern Masterpiece The second volume in our Modern Landscapes series examines the evolution of Pittsburgh's first modern garden plaza. Comp ...	Cartographies of Time What does history look like? How do you draw time?From the most ancient images to the contemporary, the line has served ...
Usonia, New York Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright Usonia, New York is the story of a group of idealistic men and women who, following WWII, enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright to ...	A-frame "A" was the architectural letterform of leisure building in postwar America. Eager to stake out mountain and lakeside re ...	America's Other Audubon Nearly everyone is familar with John James Audubon and his seminal color-plate book, The Birds of America. But few peopl ...
Classic Book Jackets The Design Legacy of George Salter It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never ...	The Ghost Army of World War II How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs that included such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kel ...	Guastavino Vaulting The Art of Structural Tile Since the time of ancient Rome, architects, engineers, and builders have struggled with the problem of building domed ce ...
Architectural Regionalism Collected Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity, and Tradition In this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. ...	The Dakota A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous ar ...	Dartmouth College The Campus Guide Organized as a series of walks through the distinct neighborhoods of Dartmouth College and parts of the surrounding town ...
The Book of Circles Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour t ...	The Vatican and Saint Peter's Basilica of Rome French architect Paul Letarouilly (1795-1855), author of the masterpiece Edifices de Rome Moderne, was unequaled in his ...	Art Up Close From Ancient to Modern This sequel to the best-selling Masterpieces Up Close is another fun, interactive book that introduces works of art from ...
University of California Berkeley The Campus Guide The first of the University of California schools, the Berkeley campus opened in 1873. The 1903 Beaux-Arts master plan b ...	Art Deco Notecards & Envelopes These striking notecards embody the glamour, luxury, and exuberance of the Art Deco period, with a twist of modern whims ...	Louisville Guide Louisville is one of the overlooked gems of American architecture, a city of Southern charm and grace with a catalog of ...
A Guide to Archigram 1961-74 In the decade of the Beatles and the moon landing, cybernetics and megacities, an ambitious group of young British archi ...	Cold War Hothouses Inventing Postwar Culture, from Cockpit to Playboy The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspe ...	Manhattan Classic New York's Finest Prewar Apartments The Dakota. The Apthorp. The San Remo. The names of these legendary New York apartment buildings evoke images of marble- ...
Michael Graves Images of a Grand Tour In 1960, before his skyscrapers and teapots made him a household name, Michael Graves set out on a journey once consider ...	A-Frame Notecards and Postcards Pulled from the pages of PAPress s classic book A-Frame, this fold-out portfolio contains a variety of notecards and pos ...	Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as ...
Above Paris The Aerial Survey of Roger Henrard Between the years 1950 and 1972, when Paris was in the twilight of its classical period, pilot and photographer Roger He ...	More Than Words Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Our widely celebrated compendium of illustrated letters is now available in paperback. Drawn from the largest repository ...	Adalberto Libera Adalberto Libera (1903-1963) was one of the preeminent Italian Rationalist architects of the 1930s and 1940s. Both a pro ...
The Encyclopedia of Antique Carpets Twenty-Five Centuries of Weaving The Encyclopedia of Antique Carpets catalogs the diverse forms that the art and craft of the handwoven carpet has taken ...	University of Toronto The Campus Guide Organized as a series of walks through the distinctive precincts of the University of Toronto's three campuses, this arc ...	Gates of Harvard Yard Offering the complete, never-before-told story of the twenty-five gates that form portals to HarvardYard, this beautiful ...
Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal The name Luis Barragan evokes images of Latin American modernism--brightly colored plain surfaces set off against lush f ...	Palazzos of Power Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930 "If it isn't Electric, it isn t Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unpre ...	50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International From antiglobalist activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists, the influence of the ...
Veterans Faces of World War II Ichiro Sudai trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American m ...	Cuba Style Graphics from the Golden Age of Design To usher in the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national republic of Cuba, Steven Heller and Vicki Gold Levi h ...	Plan of Chicago This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color. It ...
Above the Pavement--the Farm! Architecture & Agriculture at PF1 Forty years after French protestors took to the streets with the rallying cry Sous les pav's, la plage! (Beneath the pav ...	John Muir Notecards Known in his lifetime as Mountain John, no one did as much to foster appreciation for the natural beauty of the American ...	Bunker Archeology In Bunker Archeology, urban philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio turns his attention--and camera--to the omino ...
Selected Works of McKim, Mead & White, 1879 to 1915 McKim, Mead & White is the best-known architecture firm of America's Gilded Age, and designed many of the most iconic bu ...	Revolution of Forms, updated edition Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools Prior to the publication of Revolution of Forms in 1999, few were aware that the most outstanding architectural achievem ...	Cartographies of Time Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive hist ...
Mary Colter Architect of the Southwest Mary Colter may well be the best-known unknown architect in the world: her buildings at the Grand Canyon National Park-w ...	BEE Of the ten million or so different species of insects on our planet, none is more fascinating than the honeybee. One of ...	Waiting for the End of the World Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is the bomb shelter down in ...
50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International PB From Occupy Wall Street activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerilla street artists, the influence o ...	An Atlas of Rare City Maps Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842 The map-plans in this collection of forty cities in Europe, Russia, the United States, and Asia were first published in ...	Vintage Typography Notecards Discovered in vintage typographic manuals, the specimens featured on these elegant cards range from one-of-a-kind hand-d ...
Mies Van der Rohe's Krefeld Villas With all of the attention Mies van der Rohe has received over the last few years, it's hard to believe that there could ...	The Book of Trees Visualizing Branches of Knowledge Our critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first in-depth examination of the burgeoning field of info ...	University of Pennsylvania The Campus Guide Benjamin Franklin, founder of America's first university, the University of Pennsylvania, hoped that its students would ...
Beijing Contemporary and Imperial In three decades of visits to China, celebrated photographer Lois Conner has'witnessed firsthand the monumental physical ...	Once Upon a Time Illustrations from Fairytales, Fables, Primer, Pop-Ups, and other Children's Books. Many of our most cherished childhood memories recall the pleasure of sitting in a big comfy chair while a doting parent ...	Henry Howard Louisiana's Architect Few nineteenth-century architects ventured far from the pattern-book styles of their time. One architect not constrained ...
Keep the Change A Collector's Tales of Lucky Pennies, Counterfeit C-Notes, and other Curious Currency Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of ...	Crafting a Modern World The Designs of Antonin and Noemi Raymond Kurt G. F. Helfrich and William Whitaker, editors, with contributions by Ann Lutun, Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Ken Tadashi ...	Artists Unframed Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen sna ...
When Brazil Was Modern A Guide to Architecture 1928-1960 This comprehensive guide to modern Brazilian architecture takes us on a fascinating tour of over 125 buildings and proje ...	War Plan Red The United States' Secret Plan to Invade Canada, and Canada's to Invade the U.S. It's known as the world's friendliest border. Five thousand miles of unfenced, unwalled international coexistence and a ...	Ghostly Ruins America's Forgotten Architecture "Ghostly Ruins is a haunted masterpiece. Well done!"--Ray BradburyWe've all seen them but might have been too scared to ...
William Addison Dwiggins Stencilled Ornament and Illustration: Expanded Edition There has never been anyone in the design world like William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956). The first American to call hi ...	Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, Building Studies 5 German artist Kurt Schwitters' Hannover Merzbau, a combination of collage, sculpture, and architecture, began, according ...	The Smith Tapes Between 1969 and 1972, Village Voice "Scenes" columnist, WPLJ FM radio host, and cult figure Howard Smith got to the hea ...
Large Parks The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds ...	Ladders Second Revised Edition "Having set the standard for work on the postwar American City, its reissue twelve years after its first publication is ...	Mary Colter Architect of the Southwest Mary Colter may well be the best-known unknown architect in the world: her buildings at the Grand Canyon National Park-w ...
Pen to Paper Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Even in this age of emails, texts, and tweets, there is an ongoing fascination with the simple act of putting pen to pap ...	The Antiquities of Athens Measured and Delineated by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's monumental Antiquities of Athens was the first accurate survey of ancient ...	Paris Changing Revisiting Eug ne Atget's Paris Between 1888 and 1927 Eugeene Atget meticulously photographed Paris, capturing in thousands of photographs the city's pa ...
History of Architectural Theory From Vitruvius to the Present As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book ...	Edifices de Rome Moderne Paul Letarouilly's masterpiece, Edifices de Rome Moderne, has been hailed as'the most beautiful book on Renaissance arch ...	Architecture of the Off-Modern Svetlana Boym's Architecture of the Off-Modern is an imaginative tour through the history and afterlife of Vladimir Tatl ...
Labyrinths & Mazes A Journey Through Art, Architecture, and Landscape The labyrinth is one of the world's oldest symbols, and its meaning is often shrouded in myth and mystery or ties to rel ...	The Chrysler Building Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day The Chrysler Building is surely the jewel in the crown of New York City's skyline. Completed in 1930, the 77-story Art D ...	The Lovings An Intimate Portrait The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings pres ...
Yankee Modern The Houses of Estes/Twombly Architects James Estes and Peter Twombly have described their nearly two decades of work as "quiet modernism." Their Rho ...	Chandigarh Revealed Le Corbusier's City Today In 1950, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited legendary French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier to embark on one o ...	Wright Sites Updated and Revised, 3rd Edition As America's most beloved architect, Frank Lloyd Wright's work, life, and legacy, have been the subject of countless exh ...
American Architectural Masterpieces This lushly illustrated and carefully reproduced edition ... is a joy to study and a bountiful reference to the stylisti ...	Pedro E. Guerrero A Photographer's Journey , Signed Copies "Guerrero has a very warm and living relationship with the artists he photographs. He is magnificent. He doesn't just go ...	William L. Pereira William Pereira helped define emerging social values: he designed every building type imaginable, from houses to hospita ...
The Games We Played The Golden Age of Board and Table Games As families are rediscovering the joys and virtues of staying and entertaining at home, board games have surged in popul ...	Fifty Type Specimens From the Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones Fifty Type Specimens is a collection of postcards with stunning images of typography, for inspiration, correspondence, o ...	Le Corbusier, Homme de Lettres On his French identity card, legendary architect Le Corbusier listed his profession as "Homme de Lettres" (Man of Letter ...
The Complete Works of Percier and Fontaine Known as "Napoleon's architects," Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre Fontaine (1762-1853) were not only the Emperor' ...	L'Architecture Few architectects have had a vision of architecture as provocative as that of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. In 1847 Daniel asse ...	W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits Visualizing Black America The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activ ...
The Architecture of Diplomacy Building America's Embassies, Revised Second Edition This acclaimed history of America's overseas embassy-building program is now available in paperback in a revised and exp ...	Williams College: The Campus Guide Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, Williams Collegeroutinely ranks atop the best liberal arts ...	The Architecture of Modern Italy The Challenge of Tradition, 1750-1900, Vol. 1 This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian archi ...
Edifices de Rome Moderne Paul Letarouilly's masterpiece, Edifices de Rome Moderne, has been hailed as the most beautiful book on Renaissance arch ...	American Vitruvius An Architects' Handbook of Civic Art American Vitruvius, originally published in 1922, is considered the classic encyclopedia of urban design. It contains 12 ...	Jan Tschichold A Life in Typography German type and book designer Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) revolutionized modern typography through his bold, asymmetrical ...
Italian Architecture of the 16th Century Italian Architecture of the 16th Century is the last published work of the legendary Colin Rowe, the fruit of his four-y ...	Iowa State Fair Country Comes to Town More than 150 years old and still going strong, the Iowa State Fair is an American institution that was recently selecte ...	The Buildings and Designs of Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio is unquestionably the most important architect in the Western world: his carefully proportioned, pedimen ...

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