Adolf K Placzek Editor (8 results)

Oversize Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto with mild marginal darkening/foxing. Textblock edges dust stained. [116 pp.] Photos from the Collections of the Avery Library of Columbia University and the Chicago Historical Society.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full black cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and the spine. Jacket has not been price clipped but has a two inch open tear at the bottom of the spine, and inch and a half closed tear at the top of the front panel. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a FAIR brodart protected dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. 368 pages. Illustrations (16 pages of color and 250 black and white illustrations). DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Front hinge taped. Among the contributors were Sir Anthony Blunt, Donald Hoffmann (who wrote the entry on Frank Lloyd Wright) and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr (who wrote the entry on Louis Sullivan. Contains Introduction, Contributors, Who's Who in Architecture, Further Reading, Acknowledgments., and Select Index of Buildings. This comprehensive architectural encyclopedia features essays on more than five hundred architects and hundreds of photographs, drawings, and plans of world-famous structures. Sir James Maude Richards, FRIBA (13 August 1907 - 27 April 1992) was a British architectural writer. James Maude Richards was born in 1907, at Ladypath, Park Lane, Carshalton, Surrey. Educated at Cambridge University, he trained as an architect at the Architectural Association. He worked at J. Lyons & Co., assisting Oliver Percy Bernard, before being sent to work as an architectural assistant for the engineer, Owen Williams. But his main career was as a writer on architecture. As well as publishing many books, he served as editor of the Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971, the longest period in office of any of its editors. Adolf K. Placzek was a distinguished architectural librarian, historian, editor and preservationist. Mr. Placzek transformed the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University, where he spent 32 years, including 20 as the director, into one of the world's finest repositories of architectural books, drawings and other archival materials. Major architects are covered at length by a leading specialist or scholar of the period. These informative essays provide the main style and viewpoint of the book. Shorter entries give factual information and put into historical perspective the live and work of hundreds of architects, together with such engineers, town planners,m and landscape architects who have made a significant contribution to the development of architecture.…

Wraps. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.75 inches. Unpaginated (24 pages plus covers). Illustrated cover. Illustrations (some in color). This is a booklet seeking international financial contributions to continue the restoration of the church bombed into near oblivion in 1945. Cover states Call for Support. With a history of the church and illustrations from its days of glory. Using original plans from builder Georg Bähr in the 1720s, the Dresden City Council decided to proceed with reconstruction in February 1992. A rubble-sorting ceremony started the event in January 1993 under the direction of church architect and engineer Eberhard Burger. The foundation stone was stabilized in 1995. The crypt was completed in 1996 and the inner cupola in 2000. The intensive efforts to rebuild this world-famous landmark were completed in 2005, one year earlier than originally planned, and in time for the 800-year anniversary of the city of Dresden in 2006. The Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) is a Lutheran church in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Destroyed during the Allied firebombing of Dresden towards the end of World War II, the church was reconstructed between 1994 and 2005. The current structure is the third church building to stand at this site. The earliest was founded as a Catholic church before being converted to Protestantism during the Reformation. It was replaced in the 18th century by a larger Baroque purpose-built Lutheran building. When its foundation stone was laid on 26 August 1726, it contained a copy of the Augsburg Confession which is primary confession of faith of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Considered an outstanding example of Protestant sacred architecture, it featured one of the largest domes in Europe. It was originally built as a sign of the will of the citizens of Dresden to remain Protestant after their ruler had converted to Catholicism. Having been reconstructed, it now also serves as a symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies. After the destruction of the church in 1945, the remaining ruins were left for nearly half a century as a war memorial, following decisions of local East German leaders. Following the reunification of Germany, it was decided to rebuild the church, starting in 1994. The reconstruction of its exterior was completed in 2004, and the interior the following year. The church was reconsecrated on 30 October 2005 with festive services lasting through the Protestant observance of Reformation Day on 31 October. The surrounding Neumarkt square with its many valuable baroque buildings was also reconstructed in 2004. The Frauenkirche is often called a cathedral, but it is not the seat of a bishop; the church of the Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony is the Church of the Cross. Once a month, an Anglican Evensong is held in English, by clergy from St. George's Anglican Church, Berlin.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. ex-library hardback without dust jacket, usual library stamps/markings. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects Volume 1 Alalio to Duthoit, published 1982 by The Free Press, New York. Minor shelf wear to blue cloth boards & some minor handling marks to text block edges otherwise a good, clean copy. Very heavy weighing 2.9kg willing to ship overseas for extra postage, ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-6G*.…

Hardcover - N. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED: Good School Ex-library Hardcover with stamps, labels, pocket and library notations. Volumes1-4, Clean pages, prompt shipping with tracking.

Tapa Dura. Condition: Bien. 1º Edición. Tela azul, con dorados en tapa y lomo. En muy buen estado. Una extensa obra en cuatro volúmenes, quizás la mejor enciclopedia de arquitectos en idioma inglés. Muy ilustrado.9780029250006. Free Press. Estados Unidos. 1982. 29x23 centímetros. 2700 páginas. Tapa dura. Estado=Bien. Inglés.…

London, 1982. 4 vols. 618,700,697,686 pp. Ills. Uniform hardcovers.