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History's Anteroom Photography in San Francisco, 1906-1909 by Rodger C. Birt, with Photographic Descriptions by Marvin R. Nathan History's Anteroom is a collection of vintage photographs made in San Francisco during the years 1906-1909--from the morning of April 18th when the earthquake began its devastating progress through the San Francisco Bay Area, until the Portola Festival of October 1909, a celebration of survival and regional rebirth. By providing vivid descriptions and historical context, Birt and Nathan bring these years to life and allow us to view this moment in San Francisco's history as ever before.
11" x 8.75" paper, 267 pp., pub. date August 2011; 978-0-9819667-5-5 $40 |
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California Houses of Gordon Drake by Douglas Baylis and Joan Parry with a new introduction by Pierluigi Serraino In his prolific, but tragically brief career, Gordon Drake significantly influenced and inspired the direction of post-World War II residential architecture. Working almost exclusively from the west coast, he created a new architecture embraced by post-war middle class America without abandoning any of the rigor of Modernism. 8.75" x 8.75", cloth, 107 pp., pub date February 2011 978-0-9795508-8-1 $39.95 |
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Horizontal Skyscraper by Steven Holl Richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, and water colors, this book documents the design and construction of Steven Holl's most ambitious project to date. Commissioned as the headquarters for China's largest real estate holding company, the Vanke Center became that country's first LEED platinum building and is a culminating expression of Holl's quest to realize super green, hybrid buildings that combine living, working, cultural, and commercial programs while also creating and preserving public urban spaces. "The Vanke Center is a surreal hybrid--part building, part landscape, part infrastructure," wrote Nicolai Ourroussoff, "It demonstrates what can happen when talented architects are allowed to practice their craft uninhibited by creative restrictions." 7" x 10.75" paper, 144 pp., pub. date December 1, 2011 978-0-9819667-2-4 $35 |
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Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind by Sarah Robinson Increasingly, technology seems to be de-materializing our world. Yet our ideas and experiences--both physical and cultural--remain fundamentally patterned by the complex material interplay of brain, body, and world. With support from pioneering research in the cognitive and neurosciences, Sarah Robinson combines philosophy, poetry, and personal narrative to offer a poignant study of the many ways in which our built environment shapes us as significantly as we have shaped it. 5" x 7" paper, 190 pp., pub. date December 1, 2011 978-0-9819667-1-7 $30 |
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