A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings: Case Studies in Conservation Practice Edited by Bernard Flaman and Chandler McCoy Getty Publications , October 2021 Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches | 192 pages | 166 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9781606066973 | $59.95 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : This timely volume brings together case studies that address the urgent need to manage energy use and improve thermal comfort in modern buildings while preserving their historic significance and character. This collection of ten case studies addresses the issues surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1928 and 1969 and offers valuable lessons for other structures facing similar issues. These buildings, international in scope and diverse in type, style, and size, range from the Shulman House, a small residence in Los Angeles, to the TD Bank Tower, a skyscraper complex in Toronto, and from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a cultur...

Tremaine Houses: One Family’s Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America Volker M. Welter Getty Publications , November 2019 Hardcover | 9-1/2 x 10 inches | 224 pages | 117 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1606066140 | $55.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Richard Neutra and Oscar Niemeyer designed the best-known Tremaine houses; Philip Johnson and Frank Lloyd Wright also created designs and buildings for the family that achieved iconic status in the modern movement. Focusing on the Tremaines’ houses and other projects, such as a visitor center at the meteor crater in Arizona, this volume explores the Tremaines’ architectural patronage in terms of the family’s motivations and values, exposing patterns in what may appear as a...

Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art: The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986 Thomas S. Hines Getty Publications , January 2019 Hardcover | 8 x 10 inches | 208 pages | 106 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1606065815 | $50.00 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION : Arthur Drexler (1925–1987) served as the curator and director of the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1951 until 1986 — the longest curatorship in the museum’s history. Over four decades he conceived and oversaw trailblazing exhibitions that not only reflected but also anticipated major stylistic developments. During Drexler’s tenure, MoMA played a pivotal role in examining the work and confirming the reputations of twentieth-century architects, among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Exploring unexpected subjects — from the design of automobiles to a reconstruction of a Japanese house and garden — Drexler’s b...

Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation Jeff Cody, Francesco Siravo (Editors) Getty Publications , July 2019 Paperback | 7 x 10 inches | 632 pages | 100 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1606065938 | $75.00 Publisher's Description : This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning; despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organized into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values, and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, rangin...

Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice Catherine Croft, Susan Macdonald (Editors) Getty Publications , January 2019 Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches | 208 pages | 183 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1606065761 | $59.95 Publisher Description : This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century’s most ubiquitous building material—concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, the need for recent, thorough, and well-vetted case studies on conserving twentieth century heritage became clear. This book answers that need and kicks off a new series, Conserving Modern Heritage, aimed at sharing best practices. The projects selected represent a range of building typologies, uses, and sizes, from the high-rise housing blocks of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and public buildings such as London’s National Theatre to small monuments like the structures at ...