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|  | Roman Mornings by James Lees-Milne
Lees-Milne explores eight of Rome's most important buildings--including the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, and the Tempietto--which reflect the history of the Eternal City. AUTHOR: James Lees-Milne
PUBLISHER: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Power in Buildings by Hugh Ferriss
A welcome republication of a scarce title from America's greatest architectural draftsman. First published in 1953 and long out of print, the sixty bold drawings and informed text trace Ferriss's personal odyssey through the modern architecture of America from 1929 to 1953. Dams, bridge anchorages, grain elevators, skyscraper projects, and viaducts are delineated in Ferriss's rich and somewhat brooding chiaroscuro style, while he surprises us with illustrations of such landmarks as the Johnson Wax building, Taliesin West, Lever House, and the then-unbuilt United Nations Headquarters. AUTHOR: Hugh Ferriss
PUBLISHER: Hennessey & Ingalls, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Floral House by Jane Newdick, Julia Bird, Pia Tryde
Description not available.A showcase of home design and decoration ideas that are utterly modern in their simplicity and timeless in their appeal is designed to inspire the creation of elegant rooms that echo the color and beauty of nature, from soft shades and cool tones to sun-drenched hues and deeper colors. AUTHOR: Jane Newdick, Julia Bird, Pia Tryde
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Lines by John Hejduk
Architect and educator John Hejduk has devoted his life work to creating worlds, not only in his analytic architecture but in his mission to change the structure of architectural education. Hejduk has always accompanied all facets of his work with a haunting poetic narrative. He conceives for his projects a literary counterpoint or dramatic verbal discourse. In his books, he weaves together text and textured drawings, and he has conceived of his works as a cinematic repertory group of structures. The 73 poems in Lines are a construction by an architect who seeks out the complex relationships of mother and son, of angels and their mysterious flights, of mental landscapes on the earth and in the sea; it is an entire book of idiosyncratic prayer, sustaining an almost unbearable tone of directness and suffering. These powerful religious poems offer strange combinations, where Jesus, Rodin, and Braque may coexist. Hejduk details the agony of consciousness itself in wild and concentrated stanzas, offering a kind of major mass for those who understand and have the power to voice affliction and the drive to transcend it in sacred music, bringing forth a new understanding of what it means to be human within the earthly substance and the celestial air. This book of courage and despair crowns Hejduk`s life work. AUTHOR: John Hejduk
PUBLISHER: Monacelli Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Composite Nature by Stan Brakhage
From images of such things as starfish, ferns, a bird`s claw, Philip Taaffe renders lush and delicate patterns with colors so striking they seem still wet. It is a visual language akin to Chinese calligraphy, and its organic quality reveals the symmetry of the natural world. This exquisitely crafted book presents these recent works by the artist, and features an extensive dialogue between Taaffe and filmmaker Stan Brakhage. That these artists share an affinity is made apparent in their conversation: both view the process of abstraction as an elemental one of construction and embellishment, and both look to nature to find reflected new orders of experience. AUTHOR: Stan Brakhage
PUBLISHER: Blum, Peter Edition
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Complete Poems & Plays, 1909-1950 by T. S. Eliot
As a poet, Eliot was constantly in search of new forms, and he found his voice in a combination of precise imagery, ironic wit, and the juxtaposition of disparate elements presented without explanation of their relationship to each other. His poetry is also significant for the way in which it refers to past works of literature, history, and philosophy, many of them obscure, as a way of enriching not only its own meaning but the function of language itself. Eliot was also interested in preserving the vast cultural heritage from the past that underlies every work of art. Oddly enough, however, despite Eliot's famous obscurity and the vast trove of scholarship on which he unhesitatingly drew, his poetry is powerful enough in its rhythm and in its imagery to make itself clear and meaningful to the general reader. AUTHOR: T. S. Eliot
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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