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|  | Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture by Carole Rifkind
Description not available.An illustrated reference guide provides an in-depth look at the evolution of American architecture from the 1940s to the present day, offering an illustrated survey of houses, museums, churches, schools, and office buildings around the country. Reprint. AUTHOR: Carole Rifkind
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Norman Foster by Martin Pawley, Norman Foster
This stunning addition to Universe's architecture series showcases, with color photographs and a vast range of sketches, plans, and models, Sir Norman Foster's rare and far-reaching genius, which combines peerless technological prowess with a global-minded design philosophy. His remarkable buildings and civic projects have transformed cityscapes, renewed transportation hubs, and rejuvenated town centers. This volume is among the first publications to show Foster's latest work, including the Valencia Conference Center, the new British Museum, and the Citibank tower in London. With a chronological survey of the architect's career, insightful essays on industrial architecture, deep-plan buildings, energy issues. and urbanism, Norman Foster: A Global Architecture is essential for any architecture library and a lasting tribute to a figure who continues to redraw the boundaries of architecture and urban planning around the world. AUTHOR: Martin Pawley, Norman Foster
PUBLISHER: Universe Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Scarlet Letter by Alfred Kazin, Austin Warren, Cindy Hardin, E. Hudson Long, E. Sculley Bradley
In Puritan New England, adultery was considered a crime against the state as well as a sin. Hester Prynne, convicted of this crime, is condemned to wear a scarlet A for the rest of her life. Her unknown lover finds his own form of punishment AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Austin Warren, Cindy Hardin, E. Hudson Long, E. Sculley Bradley
PUBLISHER: Brilliance Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Grove Book of Art Writing by Karen Wright, Martin Gayford
In THE GROVE BOOK OF ART WRITING, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes art. From the deeply serious to the deeply witty, from the sublime to the ridiculous, THE GROVE BOOK OF ART WRITING is an eloquent compendium of insight into the diverse ways the visual arts can be seen and thought about. AUTHOR: Karen Wright, Martin Gayford
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Architecture as a Translation of Music by Elizabeth Martin
Pamphlet Architecture was begun in 1977 by William Stout and Steven Holl as an independent vehicle for dialogue among architects, and has become a popular venue for publishing the works and thoughts of a younger generation of architects. Small in scale, low in price, but large in impact, these books present and disseminate new and innovative theories. The modest format of the books in the Pamphlet Architecture Series belies the importance and magnitude of the ideas within. AUTHOR: Elizabeth Martin
PUBLISHER: Princeton Architectural Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Modern Architecture since 1900 by William J. Curtis
Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setting for the detailed examination of buildings. Throughout the book the author`s focus is on the individual architect, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value. For the third edition the text has been radically revised and expanded, incorporating much new material and a fresh appreciation of regional identity and variety. Almost every chapter has been expanded and updated, and seven chapters are entirely new, including the whole of Part Four, which covers recent world architecture. Described by James Ackerman of Harvard University as `immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence`, this book presents a penetrating analysis of the modern tradition and its origins, and traces the creative interaction between old and new that has generated such an astonishing richness of architectural forms throughout the century. AUTHOR: William J. Curtis
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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