Green Roofs: In Sustainable Landscape Design

Green roofs make private and public buildings attractive and environmentally friendly. Landscape architect, Steven Cantor, gives the basic terminology of green roof design, defines the green roof types,  and reviews materials of construction and methods of installation.

Stone Sampler: 2nd Edition

This new edition of Stone Sampler provides swatches of natural stone, including marble, travertine, onyx, granite, quartzite, and limestone, available for use in construction and decoration. It is a concise, portable reference for architects, interior designers, and builders.

Trompe L'Oeil: Italy, Ancient and Modern

A treasure trove of pictorial motifs, painting technique, and design ideas, this book offers a wealth of useful advice on using trompe l’oeil painting in a way that is practical and at the cutting edge of modern-day design.

Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive

A timely portrait of the work of an architect who expanded the vocabulary of modern architecture, this book illustrates 19 Saarinen commissions.

Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House

A "palace" ruled by a "queen," Harbor Hill in Roslyn, Long Island, was commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men. The mansion along with its magnificent furnishings, art, gardens, and the owners' striving, hubris, and ultimate failure are the dramatis personae of this saga.

Leopold Eidlitz, Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age

This book offers the first critical examination of the work of New York architect Leopold Eidlitz, America's first Jewish architect, founding member of the American Institute of Architects, and the first American to define a modern organic architecture.

Key Contemporary Buildings: Plans, Sections, Elevations

Third in the Key series (following Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century and Key Houses of the Twentieth Century), this book features 95 buildings of the early twenty-first century.

Inspired by Nature: The Building/Botany Connection

This collection of buildings, both vernacular and by contemporary architects, reveals visual analgoies with the plant world and explains why natural forms make good models for structure.

Havana Deco

This colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own.

Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier

Whether the appeal lies in nostalgia for rain on rusting tin roofs or in the sophistication of contemporary architecture, corrugated iron deserves to be taken seriously. It has a long and fascinating history and a future as bright as its past.

Alden B. Dow: Midwestern Modern

Tells the story of both this exceptional residence and the architect who spent a half century developing his vision of a more humane way of building. Beginning with the family—and the town that encouraged him, the book traces the life and work of Alden Dow.

Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935

A survey of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, RI, for all who love grand houses.

Newport Villas describes the architectural and social development of this summer resort town, the nexus of wealth and fashion at the end of the nineteenth century.

Key Urban Housing of the 20th Century: Plans, Sections, and Elevations

This book features some ninety of the most influential modern housing designs of the last hundred years by some of the best-known architects in the field. Each project is explained with a concise text and photographs.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts

Twenty-one carefully chosen selections from Wright’s extensive literary output span the important period between 1900 and the late 1930s, when the architect exerted a powerful influence on the developing modern movement.

Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them

This well-illustrated book covers in depth the work of six designers and lfocuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and professionals.