"Shigeru Ban may be best known for his evocative Curtain Wall House in Tokyo—a highlight of the Museum of Modern Art's 1999 Un-Private House exhibit—but few know the range of this Japanese architect's work. In this first English-language monograph on Ban, 30 built projects reveal his inventiveness and humanitarianism. Ban's primary objectives in his work are the use of low cost materials and the dissolution of the boundaries between int ..."
"In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted "The Universitas Project," a two-day conference sponsored by the Museum's International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The distinguished participants, from a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, including Jean Baudrillard, Umberto Eco, Gyorgy Kepes, Octavio Paz, Anatol Rapoport, Meyer Schapiro, Carl Schorske and Jivan Tabibian, among many oth ..."
"The past's visionary future of domestic design, from Alison and Peter Smithson to SuperstudioThe “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from t ..."
"Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape -- high-rise buildings enveloped in verdant screens of trees and plants, houses that virtually disappear beneath mounds of earth. His highly original work defies easy categorization and analysis, and Ambasz has himself presented his designs as springing from his deeply felt mythical and poetic desires, serving n ..."
"Hardback book with dust jacket titled THE ARCHITECTURE OF LUIS BARRAGAN by Emilio Ambasz. Published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1976. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs of Mr. Barragans work. See my photogrpahs (6) of this book on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-12-bottom-R) rareviewbooks"
"New. Excellent condition overall. Canvas hardcover book w/ NO DUST JACKET. Binding is tight and intact and does not appear to have ever been read. Borders and corners are precisely crisp. No bumping of any kind. Pages are clean and unmarked."
Italy(1st Edition) The New Domestic Landscape: Achievements and Problems of Italian Design by EmilioAmbasz Hardcover, 430 Pages, Published 1972 by Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-394-2, ISBN: 0-87070-394-3
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 26 to Sept. 11, 1972."
Taxi Project(1st Edition) Realistic Solutions for Today by EmilioAmbasz Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1976 by Museum Of Modern Art ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-277-8, ISBN: 0-87070-277-7
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Italy(1st Edition) The New Domestic Landscape by EmilioAmbasz, AmbaszEmilio Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 1972 by Museum Of Modern Art ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-393-5, ISBN: 0-87070-393-5
"VERY GOOD-SOFTCOVER BOOK. NOT SIGNED OR AUTOGRAPHED. Book has minor shelf and light edge wear with yellowing from age to cover and to half inch closed tears to head of spine. In very good lightly read condition, not price clipped, not library or book club edition, not remainder marked. Seller is a lifelong book collector and each edition comes directly from his 35,000+ volume collection! Orders are shipped every business day using USPS ..."
"Published to coincide with an exhibit of the work of Emilio Ambasz at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Tokyo Station. Includes essays by Emilio Ambasz, Urban & Building Projects: 1988 - 1991, Industrial Design Projects: 1988 - 1991, References and many color photos."
"The architect Shigeru Ban is best known in his native Japan for his evocative Curtain Wall House. This monograph presents details of 30 distinctive projects, including his paper tube houses, Hanegi Forest, and the Walls-less House."
"Emilio Ambasz was born in Argentina but trained at Princeton University. From 1970 - 1976 he was Curator of Design at MoMA, New York, gaining great acclaim for his exhibition there "Italy, The New Domestic Architecture". Since 1976 he has run an architectural practice in New York and a design office in Bologna, Italy. He has gained many awards and honors, and his work has been widely published and exhibited. He has lectured at many univ ..."
Houses for sale(1st Edition) Architects, EmilioAmbasz, Peter Eisenman, Vittorio Gregotti, Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Cedric Price, Oswald Mathias Ungers by B. J. . Archer, B.J., Et A. Archer, EmilioAmbasz Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 1980 by Rizzoli ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-0352-1, ISBN: 0-8478-0352-X
"Internationally known, the Mexican Luis Barragan was one of the most gifted practitioners in contemporary landscape architecture. In his work the wall is both the supreme entity and the inhabitant of a larger metaphysical landscape; in the de Chirico-like settings he created, it is at once a screen for revealing the colours of Mexico's almost white sun and a shield to suggest unseen presences. Barragan's magnificent gardens and carefull ..."