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400 Fifth Avenue: Gwathmey Siegel by Paul Goldberger
Category: Architecture
Gwathmey Siegel's buildings represent the pinnacle of late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century modernist design, and this new volume focuses on a single architectural masterpiece: 400 Fifth Avenue. Designed by the award-winning architectural firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects and soar ...Show more
Aardvark to Zygote by Goldberger Paul
Category: Languages and Reference
From the weird and wonderful to the frankly fantastic. A stylishly illustrated A-to-Z dictionary text supplemented by a wealth of fascinating information on a wide range of subjects. Aardvark to Zygote is a dictionary that demands to be taken off the shelf and looked at. It contains a stylishly illustr ...Show more
Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons - A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro by Paul Goldberger
Category: Architecture
The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the HamptonsArchitecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton--Blue Dream, the result of a remarkable collaboration be ...Show more
Building Art - The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger
Category: Home and Garden
From Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger- an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly tr ...Show more
Building Art - The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger
Category: Architecture
From one of our foremost architectural writers: an engaging, brilliant exploration of the life and work of the most famous architect of our time, and one of the few architects ever to be widely admired by both critics and the general public. This first full-fledged critical biography of Frank Gehry pres ...Show more
Building Them Up, Tearing Them Down by Paul Goldberger
Category: Architecture General
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the CCTV Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas, the Getty Center by Richard Meier, the Times Building by Renzo Piano: Pulitzer Prizeââ‰ÂÂwinning critic Paul Goldbergerâ≢s tenure at The New Yorker has documented a captivating era in the world o ...Show more
Building with History by Paul Goldberger
Category: Architecture
Foster + Partners' work is rooted in a belief that there is no need for conflict between sharing a passion for structures from the past and a pleasure and anticipation for the architecture of the future: old and new can coexist with integrity and without apology. As Norman Foster has said, "Each age pro ...Show more
Calatrava: Oculus New York by Paul Goldberger (Text by); George Deodatis (Text by)
Category: Architecture
As one of the biggest names in contemporary architecture, engineer-cum-architect Santiago Calatrava is internationally famous for the conception and masterful execution of structures akin to high art. Taking inspiration from nature, his work mimics the shapes and motions of organic entities, as can be w ...Show more
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Barrels and the Mastaba, 1958-2018 by Paul Goldberger
Category: Art and Design
The Mastaba on the Lake Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 20-meter-high Mastaba in London's Hyde Park From June 19 to September 23, 2018, London's Hyde Park will host Christo and Jeanne-Claude's newest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture takes cu ...Show more
Counterpoint Daniel Lobeskind by Paul Goldberger
Category: Architecture
Architect Daniel Libeskind, known for his dynamic, fractured compositions, is also recognized for introducing a new critical discourse to architecture. In an enormous variety of projects around the world - major cultural institutions, convention centers, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and res ...Show more
Dumbo - The Making of a New York Neighborhood by Paul Goldberger
Category: Travel
The illustrated history of a seminal New York neighbourhood - a story of birth, decline, and renewal, of high design, of grit and glamour - a tale of real estate wrangling, of art, of commerce. DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, is a flourishing neighbourhood in the New Yor ...Show more