Howard, Hugh

Summary: "As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.092 HOW

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: "This picture book biography follows I. M. Pei's start as an architect and his lasting impact on buildings all around the world"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PEI

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Pei

Harvey, Jeanne Walker

Summary: "The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LIN

Going, K. L. (Kelly L.)

Summary: "A little boy who loves to find shapes in nature grows up to be one of America's greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WRI

Summary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRE

Nevala-Lee, Alec

Summary: "From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, BUCKMINSTER NEV

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: Details the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, a young boy from the prairie, who introduced organic architecture, a style he created based on the relationship between buildings and the natural world.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 720.92 ROS

Leung, Julie

Summary: In this stunning picture book about renowned architect I. M. Pei, award-winning author Julie Leung and captivating illustrator Yifan Wu unite to tell the story of the man who changed architecture forever with his forward-thinking shapes. As a boy in Shanghai, Ioeh Ming Pei was awestruck by the enormous buildings that popped up around him every day. He quickly figured out exactly what he wanted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PEI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PEI LEU

Baldwin, J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 BAL

Stephens, Olin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Seaport Museum 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8302 STE

Summary: "Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. His legacy becomes ever more relevant, providing us a road map to steer our planet away from oblivion-- and toward a sustainable future for all of humanity. This film ... transports the viewer into Fuller's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Masters & Masterworks 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOR

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Summary: The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and without question America’s foremost landscape architect and urban planner, Frederick Law Olmsted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 OLM

Summary: Explore the life of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, whose visionary buildings include St. Louis's Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan. Travel with his son as he showcases the architect's body of timeless work, which continues to inspire amongst renewed interest in 20th century architects and artists who exploded the constraints of the past to create a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EER

Maddex, Diane.

Contents: Midwestern modern -- Composed order -- The studio -- The home -- The Dow gardens -- Facts -- The buildings of Alden B. Dow -- Patents and inventions -- Honors -- Professional and honorary memberships -- Alden B. Dow archives -- Sources -- Illustrations -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alden B. Dow Home and Studio 2007

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.92 MAD

Rybczynski, Witold.

Summary: "In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW Rybczynski

Secrest, Meryle.

Summary: Meryle Secrest's Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs, drawings, and books. She also interviewed surviving devotees, students, and relatives. The result is an explicit portrait of both the genius...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD SEC

Martin, Justin.

Summary: Describes the life of the landscape architect responsible for New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace including his lesser-known time spent as an influential journalist, early voice for the environment and abolitionist, all overshadowed by a tragic personal life.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW Martin

Thorne-Thomsen, Kathleen.

Summary: Provides an introduction to the life and work of the architect and includes activities and recipes based on his life and art.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1994

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WRI

Baker, Jean H.

Summary: An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall and the Senate,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LATROBE, BENJAMIN HENRY BAK

Summary: "The year 2022 will mark the bicentennial of the birth of Olmsted; a national celebration is being planned by several organizations. This book celebrates 200 of the more than 6,000 landscapes that he and his successors created, many of which are extant, kept up, open to the public, and beloved as major cultural sites. Olmsted designed many of America's most beloved parks and landscapes during...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0973 EXP

Summary: Nathaniel Kahn documents the life and works of his father, Louis Kahn. Louis Kahn had an "official" family, including his wife Esther and daughter Sue Ann. He had two other secret families: with fellow architect Anne Tyng he had a daughter, Alexandra, and with his colleague Harriet Pattison he had Nathaniel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MY

Drennan, William R.

Summary: The least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark Wisconsin residence. The details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright's legion of biographers--a gap finally addressed here. In response to the scandal of his open affair with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Terrace Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DRE

Guerrero, Pedro E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pomegranate Artbooks 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 GUE