""With a new epilogue" Richly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for people who want a house but who may not know what they really need, or what they have a right to expect. The authors establish the basis for good building by examining houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create ..."
The Sea Ranch(2nd Edition) Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast (Sea Ranch Illustrated Coffee Table Book) by DonlynLyndon, Jim Alinder, Donald Canty, Lawrence Halprin Hardcover, 303 Pages, Published 2013 by Princeton Architectural Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61689-177-0, ISBN: 1-61689-177-7
"A hundred miles north of San Francisco on California Coast Highway 1, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. Waves crash upon the rocks or wash up on beautiful stretches of sandy beaches. This is the location of The Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand acres of large, open meadows and forested natural settings interspersed with award-winning architecture. When the area, a sheep ranch ..."
"This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an invitation to readers to inhabit the chambers of the book with their own imaginations to join in the making of the Memory Pala ..."
"A hundred miles north of San Francisco on California Coast Highway 1, the Sonoma County coast meets the Pacific Ocean in a magnificent display of nature. Waves crash upon the rocks or wash up on beautiful stretches of sandy beaches. This is the location of The Sea Ranch, an area covering several thousand acres of large, open meadows and forested natural settings interspersed with award-winning architecture. When the area, a sheep ranch ..."
"Civic Builders is the latest edition in the successful Builders Series, and contains international coverage of government buildings and city halls. Commencing with an introduction on the history of civic buildings, this volume goes on to showcase 30 contemporary case studies by world renown architects, including Foster and Partners, Richard Meir and Helmut Jahn. Each project is fully illustrated by the incorporation of texts, plans ..."
"This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an invitation to readers to inhabit the chambers of the book with their own imaginations, to join in the making of the "Memory Palace" proposed. The authors' informal and anecdotal style extends to th ..."
The City Observed(1st Edition) Boston, a guide to the Architecture of the Hub by DonlynLyndon Paperback, 317 Pages, Published 1982 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-394-74894-8, ISBN: 0-394-74894-8
"With a new epilogueRichly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for people who want a house but who may not know what they really need, or what they have a right to expect.The authors establish the basis for good building by examining houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create an ..."
"With a new epilogueRichly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for people who want a house but who may not know what they really need, or what they have a right to expect.The authors establish the basis for good building by examining houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create an ..."
City Observed(1st Edition) Boston by DonlynLyndon Hardcover, 317 Pages, Published 1982 by Random House Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-394-50475-9, ISBN: 0-394-50475-5
"The heritage of Boston from colonial times to the present is explored through individual discussions of more than 300 buildings accompanied by photographs and maps, all arranged for use in walking tours"
"Over the course of a career that spanned forty-five years, William Wilson Wurster (1895 1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Like Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, with whom Wurster maintained a close professional exchange, Wurster blends modernism with the vernacular. Wurster described these homes as "frames for living": spaces that could be fully transformed by the occupant to meet their needs and desires, we ..."
"Brothers Mark and Peter Anderson have been building things together since their boyhood days in Tacoma, Washington. Their work as architects, carpenters, builders, and general contractors encompasses the design and construction of residential, commercial, and public art projects. Anderson Anderson is noted for its highly customized work and its prefabricated systems for large-scale production. Informed by their experiences as carpenters ..."
"... Olgyay's death, the widely used Wiley textbook Mechanical and Electrical
Equipment for Buildings, 6th Edition featured Olgyay's map of ... Shortly after the
first Earth Day, the 1973 Middle Eastern oil embargo became the world's energy
wake-up call. ... Condominium One at the Sea Ranch, California, completed in
1965; architects MLTW (Moore Lyndon Turnbull ... Donlyn Lyndon, one of his
student assistants, has had a very distingu ..."
"This large-size volume documents 20 of William Turnbull's most well-known structures, ranging in scope from the Sea Ranch Condominium I (1965), designed by Turnbull in collaboration with Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, and Richard Whitaker (WLTW), to his own house in Napa Valley, CA (1991). Turnbull buildings' create a dialog with the landscape that resonates in the structural character of his works and reflects the integral nature of hi ..."
"Catalogue presenting ten exemplary projects by this west-coast-based architect, featured in a one-person exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center. Turnbull was a founding member of the prestigious firm of Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull and Whitaker which won the coveted 25-year Achievment Award from the American Institute of Architects for the Sea Ranch Condominium on the northern California coast. Turnbull is best known for his skil ..."
"This large-size volume documents 20 of William Turnbull's most well-known structures, ranging in scope from the Sea Ranch Condominium I (1965), designed by Turnbull in collaboration with Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, and Richard Whitaker (WLTW), to his own house in Napa Valley, CA (1991). Turnbull buildings' create a dialog with the landscape that resonates in the structural character of his works and reflects the integral nature of hi ..."
"This both thought-provoking and useful work will help the professional architect, builder, and developer alike glean what has been proven successful and what has not in the recent design of multi-residential housing in the USA. Using a carefully planned questionnaire sent to key architects and developers of multi-residential projects, the authors have compiled extremely useful data on the performance and success of exemplary housing des ..."