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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or limited writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Book shows the bare minimum of edge wear. Jacket shows edge wear, including a light bump to top edge. Otherwise, near fine. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4to. 256 pages. Signed by the architect. The Master Architect. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly.

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. 8 7/8"w x 12"h. 256 pages. Many color photographs. Keywords: Architecture, Buildings, Glass, Modern, Design, Interview, Color photographs, Drawings. 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Plates bright and vivid. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> There were two critical periods in my formation: the first was my schooling at the University of Tucuman, which was extraordinary, with great intellectual effervescence. At Illinois, there was no comparison. I was much better prepared than anyone there. I had a solid understanding of the principles of the Modern movement and I knew how to use theoretical constructs to design with-that's perhaps why my professor was impressed with me and recommended me to his friend John Dinkeloo, who offered me a job with Saarinen. This was most important in my development. It is one thing to get trained in a school where you learn what architecture is about. but another to become an architect. In one you learn theories about swimming, but in the other you have to jump in the water and swim and are properly coached. This is what happened with Saarinen. Good, sometimes great architecture was being done there and we were part of it. All that it takes to produce good architecture was there, open to our eyes. It.…

Condition: Fine. First edition. Hardback. Fine in a lightly used, very good indeed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Signed by the architect.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 256 pages. The book is a little worn with slightly tanned page edges. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hardcover edition in like-new, unread condition. Inscribed by Pelli on front title page; otherwise, no marks inside or out. Covers clean and dust jacket crisp. Full color photographs throughout. Includes schematics, elevation drawings, renderings, project notes. Contains biographies, lists of awards, chronologies, design credits and index. 256 pages. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 9 X 12 1/8 Inches. 256 PP. First printing of this conversational autobiography and photographic history of the architectural mastery of Cesar Pelli. Signed and inscibed by Myra Janco Daniels on the half title-page. Accompanied by a (signed) TLS from Pelli to Daniels. Hint of wear to DJ edges. Myra Janco Daniels (1925-2022), founder and CEO of the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts. Myra was also 1965 Advertising Woman of the Year and wife of Draper Daniels, the adman who created "The Marlboro Man" and who was the basis for "Don Draper" on AMC's Madmen TV show. At the age of 25, Myra started her own advertising business in Terre Haute, Indiana which was later purchased by Draper Daniels. She was a longtime collaborator of Draper's and together the couple achieved amazing success in the world of advertising in the mid-20th Century. In retirement, Myra founded the Naples Philharmonic Center and created a world class art museum which she led for over 20 years. Giving a slight nod to Charles Lindbergh, the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author A. Scott Berg once dubbed Myra "The Spirit of Naples.". Signed. …