Paul Goldberger

An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic. From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society: the earliest ballparks evoked the Victorian age in their accommodations--bleachers for the riffraff, grandstands for the middle-class; the "concrete donuts" of the 1950s and '60s made plain television's grip on the public's attention; and more recent ballparks, like Baltimore's Camden Yards, signal a new way forward for stadium design and for baseball's role in urban development. Throughout, Goldberger shows us the way in which baseball's history is concurrent with our cultural history: the rise of urban parks and public transportation; the development of new building materials and engineering and design skills. And how the site details and the requirements of the game--the diamond, the outfields, the walls, the grandstands--shaped our most beloved ballparks. A fascinating, exuberant ode to the Edens at the heart of our cities--where dreams are as limitless as the outfields.

Baseball in the American City

Ballpark

Why architecture matters

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 transformed contemporary architecture in his innovative use of materials, design, and form, and who is among the very few architects in history to be both respected by critics as a creative, cutting-edge force and embraced by the general public as a popular figure. Building Art shows the full range of Gehry’s work, from early houses constructed of plywood and chain-link fencing to lamps made in the shape of fish to the triumphant success of such late projects as the spectacular art museum of glass in Paris. It tells the story behind Gehry’s own house, which upset his neighbors and excited the world with its mix of the traditional and the extraordinary, and recounts how Gehry came to design the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, his remarkable structure of swirling titanium that changed a declining city into a destination spot. Building Art also explains Gehry’s sixteen-year quest to complete Walt Disney Concert Hall, the beautiful, acoustically brilliant home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Although Gehry’s architecture has been written about widely, the story of his life has never been told in full detail. Here we come to know his Jewish immigrant family, his working-class Toronto childhood, his hours spent playing with blocks on his grandmother’s kitchen floor, his move to Los Angeles when he was still a teenager, and how he came, unexpectedly, to end up in architecture school. Most important, Building Art presents and evaluates Gehry’s lifetime of work in conjunction with his entire life story, including his time in the army and at Harvard, his long relationship with his psychiatrist and the impact it had on his work, and his two marriages and four children. It analyzes his carefully crafted persona, in which a casual, amiable “aw, shucks” surface masks a driving and intense ambition. And it explores his relationship to Los Angeles and how its position as home to outsider artists gave him the freedom in his formative years to make the innovations that characterize his genius. Finally, it discusses his interest in using technology not just to change the way a building looks but to change the way the whole profession of architecture is practiced. At once a sweeping view of a great architect and an intimate look at creative genius, Building Art is in many ways the saga of the architectural milieu of the twenty-first century. But most of all it is the compelling story of the man who first comes to mind when we think of the lasting possibilities of buildings as art.

The Life and Work of Frank Gehry

Building Art

A classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture’s place in the contemporary moment “Architecture begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, “when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.” In Why Architecture Matters, he shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the vast, flowing Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Guggenheim Bilbao. He eloquently describes the Church of Sant’Ivo in Rome as a work that “embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination.” In his afterword to this new edition, Goldberger addresses the current climate in architectural history and takes a more nuanced look at projects such as Thomas Jefferson’s academical village at the University of Virginia and figures including Philip Johnson, whose controversial status has been the topic of much recent discourse. He argues that the emotional impact of great architecture remains vital, even as he welcomes the shift in the field to an increased emphasis on social justice and sustainability.

Why Architecture Matters

Explores the struggle to rebuild the site at Ground Zero, offering a social, political, cultural, and architectural history of the World Trade Center and the artistic, financial, and emotional challenges of creating a design for the site.

Politics, Architecture, And The Rebuilding Of New York

Up From Zero

Jeff Chu

Sarah Medford

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

"Designed by ... Heatherwick Studio, the soaring centerpiece of Hudson Yards' Public Square & Gardens is a completely different kind of monument. With 2,500 steps, 154 staircases, and 80 landings--a full mile of pathways in all--it is one of the most complex pieces of steelwork ever constructed"--Page 4 of cover.

A Heatherwick Studio Design

The Story of New York's Staircase

Michael Mayer

Earl Leroy Yeakel

Andrew W. Austin

Multimedia artist Clifford Ross looks beyond the natural world to uncover a world bound only by the imagination, much like in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Images are reversed and landscapes reimagined. Ross uses old and new methods to produce exceptionally beautiful and radically redesigned conceptions of reality, presenting his own digital vision.

Through the Looking Glass

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Micheal Feinstein

While this is the third monograph on the work of the prolific Washington, DC based architectural firm, David M. Schwarz Architects, this book, unlike the previous two, features essays by different authors on each of the 25 new projects included in this book. The range of the work presented is broad, from concert halls, to civic buildings to a private home. Reflecting this diversity, essayists from many professions - historians, critics, entertainers, architect and entrepreneurs - were invited to comment on specific projects providing wholly unique views of the firm s architecture.University of South Carolina Upstate George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics, SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA - Essay by Christopher Forbes; Carnegie Building , FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Witold Rybczynski; The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, CARMEL, INDIANA - Essay by Michael Feinstein; Spartanburg Day School , SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA - Essay by Nicholas Zeppos; Orioles Training Facilities, SARASOTA, FLORIDA - Essay by Jim Palmer; Orioles Year-Round Training Complex at Ed Smith Stadium, Buck O Neil Baseball Complex at Twin Lakes Park, Private Residence, ARIZONA - Essay by Tom Delavan; Lon Evans Corrections Center, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Witold Rybczynski; The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Essay by Gary Hanson; Master Plan, Reynolds Hall - Essay by Cheyenne Jackson; Boman Pavilion - Essay by Elaine Wynn; Donald W. Reynolds Discovery Children's Center - Essay by Myron Martin; Cook Children's Medical Center, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Richard Jackson; Master Plan, North Tower, Dodson Specialty Clinics, Seventh Avenue Garage Expansion, The Pennsylvania Building, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Essay by Robert A. Peck; Sundance Square, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Paul Goldberger; Sundance Square Plaza, The Westbrook, The Commerce Building, The Cassidy & the Trust Building, FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Essay by Witold Rybczynski; Downtown Crown, GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND - Essay by Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk; The Woodley, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Essay by Adele Chatfield-Taylor; The Linq, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - Essay by Robert A. M. Stern; Alpharetta City Hall, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA - by Joe Riley.

David M. Schwarz Architects

Richard H. Driehaus

The Richard H. Driehaus Prize is awarded to a living architect whose work embodies the principles of traditional and classical architecture and urbanism in contemporary society, creating a positive, long-lasting cultural, environmental, and artistic impact. Timeless Architecture: A Decade of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame presents essays and images from some of the world's most accomplished architects, including Léon Krier, Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil, Robert A.M. Stern, and Michael Graves. Illustrated with photographs, original drawings and plans, Timeless Architecture explores the enduring architectural ideals that enhance and sustain our communities. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger and personal and professional reflections from the first ten Driehaus Prize laureates, this commemorative volume offers a blueprint for creating a built environment at once more humane, functional, sustainable and beautiful.

A Decade of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame

Timeless Architecture

Jeanne-Claude

Jusqu'alors uniquement disponible dans une Édition collector conçue par Christo, cette version actualisée format XXL constitue le panorama le plus exhaustif des œuvres de Christo et Jeanne-Claude publié à ce jour. Des centaines de photos et de dessins retracent le travail inégalé du couple et donnent un aperçu de leurs projets en cours comme Le Mastaba d'Abu Dhabi et l'emballage de l'Arc de Triomphe à Paris.

CHRISTO ET JEANNE-CLAUDE.

Wolfgang Volz

L'opera completa di Christo e Jeanne-Claude in un libro disegnato da Christo stesso. Christo e Jeanne-Claude non vogliono dare una definizione del proprio lavoro, ma se vengono messi alle strette ammettono di creare una sorta di land art su larga scala che incorpora elementi di pittura, scultura, architettura al paesaggio urbano. Gli "impacchettamenti" con teli colorati di monumenti e parti di paesaggio sono le loro creazioni più famose. L'opera intitolata Valley Curtain è stata realizzata con 14000 metri di tela arancione attraverso una vallata del Colorado; l'installazione delle "surronunded islands" fu completata il 7 Maggio 1983, a Miami, in Florida. Il tessuto era propilene e copriva la superficie dell'acqua, galleggiando ed estendendosi per 61 metri da ogni isola alla baia. La luminosità del color rosa del tessuto era in armonia con la vegetazione tropicale della verdeggiante isola disabitata, del chiaro cielo di Miami e dei colori delle acque poco profonde della baia di Biscayne. Questa opera sottolineava i vari elementi e lo stile di vita delle persone di Miami, sospeso tra terra e acqua. Questo libro affronta in toto sia le opere che la vita dei due artisti offrendo al lettore sia le prime foto dell'album di famiglia che gli schizzi dei progetti futuri. Presenta centinaia di foto inedite, disegni e progetti di installazioni già realizzate, interviste e una sezione di 700 pagine disegnata da Christo stesso. Solo 1000 copie di tiratura numerate e firmate da Christo e Jeanne-Claude.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Ediz. inglese, francese e tedesca

Robert A. M. Stern

Jonathan Grzywacz

Peter Morris Dixon

Michael D. Jones

City Living

Adam Blackbourn

From June 18 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 cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which were mud benches with two vertical sides, two slanted sides, and a flat top. Towering at 20 meters high, its 500 tons anchored to the Serpentine Lake, this waterborne project will gather 7,506 painted oil barrels to create a floating mosaic of red, white, blue, and mauve. The most ambitious of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's barrel works to date, The London Mastaba is a precursor to the duo's work in progress The Mastaba (Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). First conceived in 1977, The Mastaba for Abu Dhabi, if realized, would be Christo and Jeanne-Claude's greatest achievement and only permanent large-scale work. Situated in the desert and made of 410,000 multicolored barrels, the 150-meter-high sculpture would be the largest in the world, rising higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Through drawings, collages, photographs, sculptures, and scale models, this book traces the 60-year trajectory of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's interest in the form of the barrel and the mastaba. A coinciding exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Melissa Blanchflower with Joseph Constable, in close collaboration with Josy Kraft and Christo's studio. This book, designed by Lorenza Giovanelli and Christo himself, spans Christo and Jeanne-Claude's history of barrel artworks from 1958 to 2018. It includes Christo's earliest preparatory drawings and most recent works, gathering photographs by Wolfgang Volz, maps, technical data, and drawings, many published here for the first time.

Barrels and the Mastaba 1958-2018

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Philip Jodidio

Dava Sobel

Lisa Phillips

William L. Fox

Michael Brenson

Maya Lin

Ever since her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and her subsequent best-selling book Boundaries, architects, designers, landscape architects, feminists, and environmentalists have embraced the work of artist and architect Maya Lin. This is her first book in 15 years and summarizes her work to date. Maya Lin is the first complete retrospective on the artist and architect Maya Lin. This important volume highlights 50 projects that demonstrate the expanding scope of Lin's creative process from 1980 to the present.

Topologies

Daniel Libeskind

Author Paul Goldberger, of international renown, documents all of Libeskind‘s high-profile projects such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Highly attractive object with exclusive graphic design.

Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind

Adam Tihany

Nina McCarthy

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Tihany Design

Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually--with its impact on our lives. Architecture begins to matter, writes Paul Goldberger, when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. He shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the vast, flowing Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the highly sculptural Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of Sant'Ivo in Rome, where simple geometries . . . create a work of architecture that embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination. Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.

Richard Meier

Frank Stella

Kenneth Frampton

Volume five comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision.

Richard Meier, Architect

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 residential work—he has manifested his commitment to expanding the horizons of architecture and urbanism. Counterpoint: Daniel Libeskind is the first comprehensive portrait of the work of Studio Daniel Libeskind, which was established in Berlin in 1989 and moved to New York in 2003 after winning the World Trade Center design competition. Drawn from a series of interviews with celebrated architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Counterpoint exemplifies Libeskind's multidisciplinary approach, which reflects a profound interest in philosophy, art, music, literature, theater, and film. Along with Memory Foundations, the master plan for the World Trade Center site, featured projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Royal Ontario Museum, the extension to the Denver Art Museum, the MGM Mirage CityCenter in Las Vegas, a multi-building complex in Busan, South Korea, and projects in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Israel, Mexico, Japan, and China.

Paul Goldberger

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