This updated edition of Robert McCarter's monograph on Louis I. Kahn explores the architect's profound impact on post-WWII architecture. It showcases key projects, including the Yale University Art Gallery and Kimbell Art Museum, and highlights his legacy with the recently completed Four Freedoms Park.
This monograph highlights and celebrates the forty-year career and work of WG Clark.
Discover the Nordic brilliance of master architect Alvar Aalto.
The Space Within explores how interior space has been integral to the development of Modern architecture from the late 1800s to today, and how generations of architects have engaged with interior space and its experience in their design processes.
This monograph delves into the work of one of America's most esteemed living architects, offering an in-depth analysis of their contributions to contemporary architecture. Authored by acclaimed writer and architecture critic Robert McCarter, the book provides a thorough exploration of the architect's design philosophy, notable projects, and the impact of their work on the architectural landscape. Through insightful commentary and detailed illustrations, it highlights the significance of their achievements in the field.
This overview highlights the influential work of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, founded by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara in 1978. Architectural writer Robert McCarter examines 60 of their projects, showcasing their ethical approach and commitment to enhancing the lives of building users over their 40-year history.
This comprehensive monograph on architect Marcel Breuer explores his work from the Bauhaus to his own practice in the USA. Authored by Robert McCarter, it details Breuer's architecture and furniture design, including iconic pieces and significant buildings. The new edition features an updated cover and is in print due to popular demand.
The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, available again in a classic format The work of Carlo Scarpa challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern architecture. While several books have been published on his work, none has approached the breadth and depth of this monograph by Robert McCarter, who is celebrated for his meticulously researched, experientially based, and jargon-free accounts of key figures in modern architecture. This book is the definitive study of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the Canova Museum, the Castelvecchio Museum, and the Brion Cemetery, among others.
A monograph on Robert Ernest, a forgotten figure in American mid-century modern architecture, who, before passing at the tragically early age of 28, designed three built works that, in ways both direct and indirect, influenced the development of architecture in Florida for the following three generations.
Award-winning Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger (born 1932) is one of the most important and critically influential figures in international architecture of the past half-century. He has consistently championed a fundamentally humanist modern architecture, rooted in its place and history, while simultaneously opening up new possibilities for dwelling. Today Hertzberger is rightly regarded as the world's foremost designer of schools, a building type he has almost singlehandedly redefined, and his innovative and fundamentally humane workplaces constitute some of the most compelling contemporary reinterpretations of this type of building.In this volume, acclaimed author and practicing architect Robert McCarter examines Hertzberger's most important architectural works through an analysis of the architect's design process and guiding ideas, particularly as these reflect Hertzberger's engagement with the modernist tradition, architectural history, urban space and the human experience of architecture.