Irving Gill & the Architecture of Reform by Thomas S. Hines @ Art & Architecture book

Irving Gill & the Architecture of Reform by Thomas S. Hines
In the first definitive study of Gill's work, architectural historian Thomas Hines traces the architect's journey from his native Syracuse to apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago to the development of his career in Southern California. Hines places the work in an international context, comparing and contrasting it with the work of Loos and other early modern architects. Among the topics explored are the use of concrete (which greatly influenced Wright and Rudolph Schindler) and his application of Mission Revival ornamentation to his pure forms. The buildings shown (illustrated with a great number of archival photographs, as well as with new color images) include the Lewis Courts, Sierra Madre; the Dodge House, Hollywood; and Horatio West Court, Santa Monica. Hines's pioneering study also explores the creative tensions between the imperatives and possibilities of modernism and regionalism in the American Progressive era of the early 20th century.

AUTHOR: Thomas S. Hines
PUBLISHER: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis
First published in 1979, this landmark study of Harlem's brief shining moment of glory has been reissued with a new preface in which David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois , reconsiders the Harlem Renaissance in light of recent criticism surrounding the exploitation of the black community.

AUTHOR: David Levering Lewis
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Who's Who, Mini ed. by Running Press Staff
More than 50 characters, from Obi-Wan Kenobi to Senator Palpatine, are profiled in full-color photos.

AUTHOR: Running Press Staff
PUBLISHER: Running Press Book Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Architecture Without Architects by Bernard Rudofsky
In this book, out of print since 1980, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the art of building as a universal phenomenon.

AUTHOR: Bernard Rudofsky
PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Masterpieces by Beth Dunlop
Three outstanding 'public' buildings from different countries demonstrate how Arts and Crafts architects worked within varying environments. St Andrew's Church, Roker, is a striking creation -- a collaboration of work by architect, artists and craftsmen builders; Glasgow School of Art is a synthesis of opposites -- austere and delicate, dark and light, derivative yet innovative; and the First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, is versatile, colourful and inventive. The authors of these volumes describe how each building responds to its context, while examining its unique character. Studying the buildings in one volume enables the reader to decipher their shared influences along with the larger historical and geographical contexts of each.

AUTHOR: Beth Dunlop
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Self-Made Worlds by Jonathan Williams, Mark Sloan, Roger Manley
The works depicted in Self-Made Worlds - some very well-known, others presented for the first time - challenge long-standing ideas about what art is and what it can be. From Le Palais Ideal, built in a small French village by the mailman Cheval, to the Hubcap Ranch by Litto Damonte of California, to Nek Chand's hundreds of human and animal sculptures made from waste and recycled materials and set in a massive landscaped rock garden in northwest India, Self-Made Worlds is an international tour of some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratic, eccentric glory of the human imagination. Ever since the first cave dweller decorated the walls with charcoal and ocher, people have sought to elaborate on their immediate surroundings in ways that balance the relationships between themselves and the world they live in. Scattered across the globe are remarkable individuals variously termed outsiders , obsessive visionaries , and folk artists , for whom the everyday conventions of modern society do not apply. These unique individuals and the environments they create are celebrated in Self-Made Worlds.

AUTHOR: Jonathan Williams, Mark Sloan, Roger Manley
PUBLISHER: Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture