Author: Michael Perry
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: type, catalog, job, hand
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1568986262
ISBN-13: 9781568986265

In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it’s refreshing to find typographers who still believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer’s sketchbooks, hand-drawn type has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication from magazine, book, and album covers to movie credits and NFL advertisements. As the practice and appreciation of hand-drawn type grows, it s time to celebrate the work of those typographers whose every letterform is a work of art. Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty of today’s most

Authors:Benjamin Aranda, Chris Lasch,  Sanford Kwinter
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: tooling, architecture, pamphlet
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1568985479
ISBN-13: 9781568985473

We all know that today’s architectural design has moved from the sketchpad to the screen-the era of the Mayline and the drafting board now seems downright Paleolithic-but techniques for using the computer not just as a tool for rendering but as a generative instrument remain woefully unexplored. In Tooling, the latest installment in our renowned Pamphlet Architecture series, the technologically progressive young firm Aranda/Lasch illustrates how advanced computational methods and algorithmic codes can be used to foster architectural design. Tooling explores patterns generated by computer

Author: Jesse Reiser
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: tectonics, novel, atlas
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1568985541
ISBN-13: 9781568985541

Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural design as a series of problem situation

Authors:Victoria Hammond,  David Stephenson, Keith F.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: architecture, european, dome, heaven, visions
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1568985495
ISBN-13: 9781568985497

There’s an ethereal magic to standing beneath a dome, neck craned, looking up at a vision of the heavens created by some long-ago figure of genius. From the Pantheon to the Hagia Sophia, the power of the dome seems transcendent. Photographer David Stephenson’s magnificently kaleidoscopic images of dome interiors capture this evanescent drama, and make Visions of Heaven one of the most spectacularly beautiful books we’ve ever produced. Traveling from Italy to Spain, Turkey, England, Germany, and Russia, among other countries, and photographing churches, palaces, mosques, and s

Authors:Nadir Lahiji,  Virginia Friedman, Lahiji,
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: architecture, modern, sounding, plumbing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1568981074
ISBN-13: 9781568981079

"Plumbers mediate between the pure and the abject. They order everyday fluids, they manage flow, they straighten things out and keep things clean. Sounding depths, righting columns, fixing pipes: plumbing leads to the bottom of things." --from the introduction to Plumbing One of the fundamental tenets of modernism was its image of hygiene, its ideal of bringing cleanliness and order to the great unwashed, as evident in Adolf Loos’s 1898 article, "Plumbers." Using Loos as a point of departure, the essays in this collection examine architecture through the multiple meanings inherent in plu

Authors:Julia Czerniak, George Hargreaves, James Corner,
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: parks, large
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-07-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1568986246
ISBN-13: 9781568986241

The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban designs and state parks. Most critical studies of the discipline tend to approach it from a historical or contemporary perspective organized around criteria such as built versus unbuilt, urban versus peripheral, or competition-sponsored versus commission-based. Very few analyses have been undertaken from the seemingly obvious jumping-off point of size. In Large Parks, Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves present eight essays by leading scholars and practitioners tha

Author: Charles Waldheim
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: reader, urbanism, landscape
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-06-08
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1568984391
ISBN-13: 9781568984391

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged: landscape urbanism. In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheim who is at the forefront of this new movement has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field’s top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre B