Essential Twombly (5 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, worn used copy with water stain along bottom edge impacting the bottom foredge and the bottom margin of last half of the book, no impact on text, binding remains solid, looks beaten up but quite usable copy for reading and study. KAHN, LOUIS I. Louis Kahn: essential texts : DAMAGED COPY. Edited by Robert Twombly. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003, later printing number line ending in 2 of the stated First Edition, 288pp., . "Louis Kahn (1901-1974), arguably the last great modern American architect, lectured, wrote essays, was interviewed and appeared at panel discussions, and issued countless statements to the press. Kahn published a handful of essays, but he preferred public speaking - whether formal lecture or more often, seemingly improvised remarks., All was not as causal as it may have appeared, however; as with his building, which he rethought, reworked, and reconceived, he prepared typescripts that were usually the result of multiple drafts, and when he repeated a speech to a second or third audience, he rewrote it yet again. Louis Kahn: Essential Texts is a unique anthology of twenty pieces, some never before published, representing his essential thinking as it evolved., Robert Twombly's incisive introduction and headnotes reveal the dynamism of Kahn's language, elucidate his keen aphorisms and sometimes abstruse terminology, and offer a useful distillation of basic Kahnian tenets." - CONTENTS: Introduction : Kahn's search -- Monumentality (1944) -- An approach to architectural education (1956) -- Talk at the conclusion of the Otterlo Congress (1959) -- Form and design (1960) -- The new art of urban design: are we equipped? (1960) -- Illustrations -- Discussion in Kahn's Office (1961) -- The nature of nature (1961) -- Law and rule in architecture (1961, 1962) -- Lecture at International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado (1962) -- Lecture at Yale University (1963) -- Lecture at a conference on "Medicine in the year 2000" (1964) -- Conversation with Karl Linn (1965) -- Lecture to the Boston Society of Architects (1966) -- Space and the inspirations (1967) -- Silence and light (1968. 1969) -- The room, the street, and human agreement (1971) -- Address to naturalized citizens (1971) -- Lecture at Pratt Institute (1973). 9780393731132 ISBN 0393731138.

PAPERBACK, cover price $24.95, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW. Frederick Law Olmsted: essential texts. Edited by Robert Twombly. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, 344pp., . "Often called the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was responsible for the design of Central Park and Prospect Park in NewYork City; Mount Royal Park in Montreal; the Belle Isle Park in Detroit; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee; the Cherokee Park and entire parks system in Louisville, KY; and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to name a few of his most famous projects. His landscape works are enjoyed in 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces. Most of these parks were created during and immediately after the Civil War. This title presents the opportunity to witness the evolution of Olmstedrs's design and social philosophies during a time of upheaval in American history. Sixteen selections, dating from the 1850s to the 1890s, reveal Frederick Law Olmstedrs's youthful interests as well as his mature thinking on cities, small residential sites, the history and theory of urban parks, and landscape architecture in general. His writings directly addressed important issues of hisday, but they remain as cogent as ever in today's environmental crisis." - CONTENTS: Youthful observations. The People's Park at Birkenhead (1851) -- The Phalanstery and the Phalansterians (1852) -- Small residential sites. Suburban home grounds (1871) -- Plan for a small homestead (1888) -- Terrace and veranda-back and front (1888) -- Cities. Chicago in distress (1871) -- The future of New-York (1879) -- "A healthy change in the tone of the human heart" (1886) -- Landscape gardening. On landscape gardening (1876) -- Landscape gardening (1877) -- The landscape architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) -- Park design : history and theory. Address to the Prospect Park Scientific Association (1868) -- Publics parks and the enlargement of towns (1870) -- Park (1875) -- A consideration of the justifying value of a public park (1881) -- Parks, parkways, and pleasure-grounds (1895). ISBN 9780393733105.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ex-library book, with broken rear hinge. Clean text; library stamps and stickers. Fraying to the board edges and corners; the jacket is mylar-protected. Ready to ship.

Del Roscio, Nicola et al. The Essential CY TWOMBLY. 240 pages, including 160 color plates. 4to, cloth. New York, DAP, 2014. An exemplary survey of the artist's work, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and photographs. Each section is prefaced with an essay by a noted art historian, including Simon Schama, Laszlo Glozer, Kirk Varnedoe, and Thierry Greub.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 240 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap so the binding is tight, the jacket bright, the interior presumed clean and free of markings. Bound in cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. 182 illustrations, 180 of which are in full color. Book.