Author: Jay Pridmore
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: guide, campus, chicago, university
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-02-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1568984472
ISBN-13: 9781568984476

The newest title in the Princeton Architectural Press Campus Guide series takes readers on a tour of the University of Chicago, an institution that since its founding in 1890 has exerted a profound impact on American higher education. This elegantly written guide shows the campus as a wonderfully eccentric and vastly underappreciated element of Chicago’s revered built environment. Designed in the English Gothic style of its time, the original campus, planned by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb, had a commonality of vision that made it equal in quality to the finest in America. As the trad

Author: Jay Pridmore
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: guide, campus, university, northwestern
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1568987552
ISBN-13: 9781568987552

Northwestern University: The Campus Guide takes readers on a vivid trip through this campus’s compelling history from the 19th century to the present day. This highly illustrated guide presents a wide variety of buildings ranging from Prairie style to Collegiate Gothic by historically important architects like Charles Coolidge; Daniel Burnham and Company; and Skidmore Owings & Merrill and landscape designs by Jens Jensen. Insightfully written by Jay Pridmore Northwestern University: The Campus Guide reveals the stories behind the buildings residences and landscapes of the Northwe

Author: Jay Pridmore
Publisher: Motorbooks Intl
Keywords: bicycle, american
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0760300372
ISBN-13: 9780760300374

The first ever color history of the American bicycle industry, from the high-wheelers a century ago to the high-tech lightweight wonders of today, The American Bicycle examines the bicycle’s shift from transportation to recreation, its uniquely "American" design, plus collecting and nostalgia. 250 illustrations, 200 in color.

Author: Jay Pridmore
Publisher: Abrams
Keywords: center, urban, china, architecture, shanghai
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0810994062
ISBN-13: 9780810994065

Shanghai is China’s largest city, comparable to New York or Tokyo, and in recent decades it has experienced a building boom on a scale that is simply unprecedented in world history. Shanghai now has more skyscrapers than New York City.Pridmore tells a story that combines art, technology, capitalism, and Communism in vivid prose backed up by extensive reporting and illustrated with superb photographs. After surveying Shanghai’s traditional Chinese and colonial architecture, Pridmore turns to the amazing city of today. In the last decades of the 20th century, Shanghai was seen as the engine

Authors:Jay Pridmore, Hedrich Blessing,
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Keywords: pomegranate, catalog, book, building, mart, merchandise
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-09
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0764924974
ISBN-13: 9780764924972

A huge complex spanning two city blocks, the Merchandise Mart is the largest wholesale design center in the world. The brainchild of James Simpson of Marshall Field & Company, it was planned to house Field’s huge wholesale division and prop up sagging sales. Executed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White--of Opera House and Field Museum fame--the Mart was the world’s most complex mixed-use structure: a warehouse, a department store, and a commercial office tower. All this was presented in a successful blend of elements from the Chicago School, class