212 pp 1971, cloth, Praeger, Huber + Steinegger, Zurich. foto and drawings Full monograph of the French engineer/architect, master of the light industrial details - from deck to warehouse, from house to chair to table to windows, to bridges. The relentless survey of metal/concrete construction, of prefabrication.

296pp, paper edition, 100 color, 1998 Princeton Architectural Press, designed by Lorraine Wild, Frank Escher ed., large page format. Includes all projects from1940-1992, in color and in detail and plan. " The purpose of this book is to help understand the infinite potential of Architecture to improve Life" from Lautner intro. A superb monograph, legend and inspiration of work, architect and book

160 pp, 143 color, 1994 Stuttgart, Museum Wiesbaden, Todd Eberle fotos, Hatje Cantz Publisher. A quietly famous catalog, detailing interiors and buildings at Marfa, relationships of sculpture, landscape, construction. Inside, and out, across the way, behind and in the alleys, the making of Chinati from the days and days of Donald Judd and this Texas town.

90pp, boards on cloth, 1999, Swedish/Eng/, Claes Caldenby, Adam Caruso, Stockholm, full color of each church, St Mark 1960, St Peter 1966 The two major projects, along with the Flower Kiosk 1969, at the end of Lewerentz career are his masterpieces. Caruso, from the view of the new architect, declaring St Peter's to be perfect - " the perfect buildings that I have seen are the work of old men"

publ Milan January 1,1961, Bruno Alfieri, slipcase, Eng/Fr/Ital "The crisis in architecture in America seems to coincide with the critical recovery of the pre-eminence of its artistic and inventive values.” A remarkable study of early 60s American design, from a European view. It includes Rudolph and Kahn, Yamasaki and Stone, George Nelson and Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies and Gropius and Breuer, chairs and schools and housing, Saarinen and Neutra. The issue concludes with The Young’s, a kind of madmen review of the new architects, all men. Blake, Lundy, Franzen. And then Kappe, Goff and Soleri, from the far West. Scully, McCoy, Portoghesi all contribute - it is to look at, in black and white, architecture in America.

USA, 188 pp French texted An amazing issue of review, from the best magazine of the time, of America, 1967. There are 100 pages of photos of architecture - Salk Institute, University of Colorado, houses of Sellers, Venturi, Jacobsen, Esherick. And then a full panorama of MLTW, from Moore’s own house, to conclude at Sea Ranch, with remarkable photos from Morley Baer. It is America, the sure and bold, wooded and unfurled. There are thirty or so gatefolds of the fotos, as if it could not be otherwise expressed or contained. The second part of the issue presents Le Pop-Art, of Lichtenstein, Segal, Oldenburg, Warhol, Wesselman, Rosenquist. Ending with the question - what can it be like to be an American.

Louis I. Kahn, Makers of contemporary Architecture, 1962, Vincent Scully, 128 pp cloth, first edition. Scully knows Kahn perfectly, so this is a perfect view of the first half of Kahn’s work. The Salk is only in drawings at the time, The Richards Medical is being honored. It is the start of the 60s - as Richard Wurman, in Kahn’s office would say, Lou Kahn owned the 60s.

1960 Gio Ponti, trans Salvadori, cloth, first edition, 270pp. The perfect start, to the 60s. How to resist a document that offers alternate titles to itself - Peroration on Architecture / Architecture is a Crystal / Love, Architecture / Love Architects. "The leg of a chair must always be a little too thin” "Love architecture, for the illusions of grace, of lightness, of strength, of serenity, of movement achieved by heavy stone and frigid structure.” "This book is my truth or my truths - each reader will get his own truth or truths.”

The first in a projected series on architecture, as MOMA imagined its place to the headlines of the 60s. Venturi knew perfectly the East Coast and its intellectual legacy - he is surely one of few architects to walk with T.S. Eliot. And Kahn, it is often declared is Venturi’s mentor. But C & C is something other, it is a collective of parts, unjudged and welcomed. It is to Venturi, “ the difficult unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion.” It is the response to the true 60s, the long past and the only barely possible future. 138pp MOMA Publications Papers on Architecture, 1966, paperback First ed. $95, cloth Second printing, $75

A lovely issue, to mark the end of the 60s, a full tribute to Kahn, with 12 pages of sketches reproduced on textured stock. Text in French, with English insert. Specific attention to Ahmedabad, Dacca, Kimbell, Exeter Library and the Salk. An overview of a master. 110pp, 2 color printing. 2 copies on hand. One, $95, loose binding, one $160, very good.

A full tribute to Kahn, who would die a year later of cardiac arrest in Penn Station. Many photos are of the construction sites, including scaffolding. Lovely images of details, plan drawings, sketches. Organized in eight parts, titled The Room, the Street and Human Agreement, it includes the 24 major Kahn projects, to date. "The plan is a society of rooms". "The street is a community room." It is the tribute of one of the world’s great architecture publications to one architect. Oversized paperback, very good, $425 ( two copies available)

If the a+u 1973 issue was a tribute, then this volume is a bow, and a bestowed honor. There are seven projects covered, seventeen main works photographed, sixteen projects in single sketch, thirty six working drawings, and numerous tributes, from Scully, Smithson, Maki, Doshi. It is an intimate album of acknowledgement. 328pp, full color.

One of the earliest books from Edita, before they started the GA Houses series, featuring 38 houses, most of them sited along the California coast. Nothing had been quite like MLTW, they were the flamboyance that no one had quite managed. And the instinct. They made a SEA RANCH, where it had not been even imagined. Each house is photographed by Futagawa in black and white, and color where it was obvious. Every Sea Ranch house is here, with plan and section. (The binding was not deep enough for the paper - there was only one edition and every copy has loosened pages)

Part of the Pentagram series, those titles they produce both as chronicle and example of their talents. This volume in some ways their primer for the nature of graphics. A fine piece. 300 pages. 1978.

Very rare book. The designing of typographic devices and books "for our time" has been Hermann Zapf's central commitment as an artist. In this book he displays his art—he designed the book, which is set in a typeface of his own devising, Linotype Optima. 1970. 142 pages.

Dutch type designer who specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers. Among his typefaces are Quadraat and Quadraat Sans, Renard, Arnhem, Sansa, Fresco. Book represents his own work as a designer and personal statements. 142 pages. 2003.

Illustrates the work of 18 painters and sculptors who were active outside of New York in the 1940s.