shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
  1. $19.56 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$40.00
List price: $45.00
New Hardcover
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Burnside Architecture- Architects
2 Remote Warehouse Architecture- Houses
1 Remote Warehouse Architecture- Architects

House: Black Swan Theory

by Steven Holl

House: Black Swan Theory Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Synopsis:

In 1989, Princeton Architectural Press published Anchoring, the first book on the work of the then up-and-coming architect Steven Holl. Since then, Holl has become one of the most famous and highly regarded architects in the world through his award-winning residential and institutional work; his teaching, writings, and drawings; and his persistent vision of an architecture that takes into consideration its place, time, and all the senses of the viewer. This philosophy helped to create some of the richest and most celebrated buildings of the past several decades. Indeed, in 2001, Time magazine called Holl 'America's Best Architect for 'buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.''

Sequels to Anchoring Intertwining and Parallax chronicled Holl's work from the period 1988 to 1995. House brings us up-to-date on Holl's most recent residences and collects his best-known projects from the past including a total of fifteen of Holl's residential works. Rather than having an unvarying style, these houses aim at the sometimes elusive ideal of the specific. Each house tackles a different design challenge, using site as the physical and metaphysical foundation upon which to build. Fusing building and situation, Holl creates a unique expression in each home. Beautiful and innovative, the houses span the globe, ranging from a secluded location in Hawaii, to the Catskill Mountains of New York, to Martha's Vineyard, to the Hague in the Netherlands. Each project is accompanied by Holl's charming watercolor building studies as well as an insightful explanation of how he was inspired by the land upon which the house sits and how the sumptuous materials utilized reflect the spirit of the location.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781568985879
Subtitle:
Black Swan Theory
Author:
Holl, Steven
Author:
Holl, Steven
Afterword:
Bell, Michael
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
Subject:
Design & Construction
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Architecture, domestic
Subject:
Individual Architect
Subject:
History
Subject:
Individual Architects & Firms - General
Subject:
Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
Subject:
Architecture -- United States -- History.
Publication Date:
April 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
175
Dimensions:
878x877x68 147

Other books you might like

  1. $20.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $49.50 New Hardcover add to wish list
  3. $30.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list
  4. $39.95 New Hardcover add to wish list
  5. $27.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Tiny Tiny Houses

    Lester Walker
  6. $23.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    25 Houses Under 1500 Square Feet

    James Grays Trulove

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.