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)

Exhibit catalog ICA Miami 2020, Gean Moreno, six essays Ettore Sottsass. Paperback, 335 pages, printed in Belgium

The fourth monograph on Tom Kundig, perhaps the most awaited. He has been busy, all over the world, and some of the projects are only first seen in this volume. Full color plates,10"x13" Cloth edition, with jacket.

Thirty years ago, Braun introduced the AW10, a very slim, near monochrome (but for the yellow second hand) wrist watch. Now Dietrich Lubs, the original designer for the Dieter Rams Studio, has updated the watch. It is still made exclusively in Germany, it is still in two forms, black and silver, but it is now 40mm. Stainless steel housing, genuine leather strap, date, water resistant, quartz movement, mineral glass. Boxed and cased.

Focus: Hybrid Spaces

There are a few titles on Snohetta but this the first with details, from the editors and archives of DETAIL. The 14 projects of this monograph, in color photos, drawings and building details, crossing their 30 year history. A main office in Oslo, with projects all over the world - from SF MOMA to AESOP Singapore to Opera House Oslo. Cloth edition.

The brilliant Chilean architect, his work from the last 5 years, houses and commercial pieces, with the exuberance and courage of the best.

It is the passion of texture and material, of time past and then present, that makes the work of Harquitectes so compelling. Four men, under 50, all born in Barcelona, wonderful ball players of architecture. Housing, student housing, houses, wineries, renovations - all of brilliant, precise technique and spirit.

A new meeting notebook, from Rhodia, softcover, ivory smooth paper, for fountain or marker, 80 micro perforated sheets, A5 size, orange or silver, $24