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RALPH
RAPSON
Sketches and Drawings from Around the World |
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Ralph Rapson
Foreword by Cesar Pelli |
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HARDCOVER
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Casebound in linen with
dustjacket
ISBN 1-890434-49-3
$29.95 |
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1/4" x 10 1/4", 120 pages
Hundreds of color illustrations |
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TRAVEL THE GLOBE with Ralph Rapson to
some of the world’s most exotic places.
Stroll sun baked Casablanca with its colorful street markets. Climb
to the top of Brazil’s fabled Sugarloaf Mountain for a bird’s eye view
of Rio de Janeiro and the white sweep of Copacabana Beach. Visit some of
the world’s most remarkable cathedrals, mosques, temples, and
synagogues. Linger in Paris with its scene-stealing vistas of Notre Dame
and Sacre Coeur. Walk with peasants along China’s Great Wall.
Journey to India to gaze in awe at the Taj Mahal bathed in
moonlight.
Along with drawings of some of his own
designs for private residences and U.S. embassies worldwide, Rapson pays
tribute to his peers with sketches of modern masterworks by architects Le
Corbusier, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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RALPH
RAPSON: Sixty Years of Modern Design
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by Jane King Hession, Rip Rapson,
Bruce N.Wright
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HARDCOVER
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Casebound in linen with dustjacket,
300 drawings and illustrations,
notes, bibliography, and index.
11" x 10 1/2", 256 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-14-0
$35.00 |
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COLLECTOR
EDITION (limited to one hundred copies): Signed, numbered, and handbound in
Japanese silk with handmade Japanese paper endsheets, matching silk
slipcase. Each book contains an original color
architectural sketch by Ralph Rapson.
ISBN 1-890434-15-9
$250.00
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A visually stunning
architectural biography of Minnesota’s most influential architect of the
twentieth century. Architect, artist, furniture designer, and educator,
Ralph Rapson has played a leading role in the development and practice of
modern architecture and design, both nationally and internationally.
Book
Reviews
"Ralph Rapson is now a legend in the history of modern
architecture." —Cesar Pelli, FAIA
Society of Architectural
Historians David Stanley Gebhard Award!
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| AMERICAN
RUINS: Ghosts
on the Landscape |
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Maxwell MacKenzie |
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SOFTCOVER
EDITION
ISBN 1-890434-41-8
$24.95 |
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11 1/2" x 9
1/2", 80 Pages
30 duotone photographs |
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Maxwell MacKenzie has selected 30 beautiful and haunting
photographs of out-of-the-way places in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
South Dakota, North Dakota, and Idaho for his new book American Ruins:
Ghosts on the Landscape.
One of the most important architectural photographers working today,
MacKenzie chronicles a fast-disappearing manifestation of the American
Dream—the eloquent remains of barns, houses, and schools erected by
immigrant settlers. His crisp black-and-white prints provide a poignant
reminder that architecture sometimes becomes most evocative when it slips
toward ruin.With an artist’s eye, an architect’s sensibility, and a
native son’s passion, MacKenzie has made poetic images of these
primitive but elegant structures that transcend both time and place. His
photographs speak not only to students of photography and architecture,
but to anyone who appreciates the history and simple beauty of America’s
rural landscapes.
"Max MacKenzie has earned a reputation as one of the best
architectural photographers in the country. A master of elegant
light." —Frank Van Riper, Focus Magazine
"Hardly anyone lives on a farm anymore—about one in
a hundred Americans. Back when more than half did, some of them lived in
the houses that MacKenzie presents here. What hopes! What despairs! What
wild turns of fortune! The houses are empty, or they’re full of
abandonment by MacKenzie’s artistic reckonings. If they didn’t haunt
you before, they will now."
—Henry Allen, Washington Post,
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
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A PLACE
AT THE LAKE
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by Paul Clifford Larson
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
Casebound in linen with dustjacket
140 full color and tinted photos,
9 3/4" x 11 1/2", 160 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-05-1
$45.00
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Minnesotans have carried on a romance with their lakes for more than a
century, and the affair shows no signs of abating. A Place at the Lake is
a pictorial account of the summer houses that have proliferated along
Minnesota’s lakeshores—the humble and the high-style, the nest of logs
and the summer palace.
"The book reads as if a travelogue enjoyed in a Model T Ford
ambling along country lanes and remote shorelines. . . . Designer Lois
Stanfield has created a beautiful context for Larson’s scholarly
text."
—Architecture
Minnesota
"A Place at the Lake accomplishes what the best of coffee table
books do: it allows the reader, just by skimming the text and responding
imaginatively to countless photographs, to enter a world where time stands
still, and summer days and childhood never end."
—Minnesota Independent Scholars' Forum
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Independent Publishers
Award For Best Architecture/Interior Design Book!
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ICY
PLEASURES: Minnesota Celebrates Winter
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by Paul Clifford Larson
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
Casebound in linen with dustjacket,
160 color and mechanically
colored duotone photos,
10 1/4" x 10 1/4", 168 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-01-9
$19.95
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Minnesotans have long suspected that the last ice age never fully
receded from the state, but that has not kept them from having a good
time. Icy Pleasures explores the many ways that the people of Minnesota
have embraced its Siberian reputation with winter carnivals and cold
weather sports. It crackles with the wry descriptions, larger-than-life
stories, and droll humor that intrepid newsmen and propagandists have
always found in a subject that so thoroughly mixes hardship with hilarity.
Book
Reviews
"Icy Pleasures is a delightful book, nicely written, profusely
illustrated, and long overdue in a state where winter always hogs the
stage in the theater of seasons."— St. Paul Pioneer Press
Midwest Publishers Award For Best Recreational Book!
Minnesota Book
Award for Best History Book!
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MINNESOTA ARCHITECT: The Life and Work
of Clarence H. Johnston |
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by Paul Clifford Larson |
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
Casebound in linen with dustjacket,
280 photos and illustrations, notes,
appendices, bibliography, index,
12" x 10", 224 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-35-3
$35.00
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DURING A PRACTICE that spanned fifty-four years (1882-1936), Clarence
Johnston designed more buildings than any other figure in Minnesota’s
history. As Minnesota State Architect for thirty years, Johnston designed
virtually all the buildings on thirty-five state-owned sites and campuses
including the University of Minnesota. He was also the most sought-after
residential architect for two generations of St. Paul’s upper classes. Forty-two of his designs line Summit
Avenue, one of the most famous and best-preserved Victorian boulevards in
America.
"Johnston has finally gotten his due in a big, profusely
illustrated book by architectural historian Paul Larson. Minnesota
Architect offers a thorough recounting of Johnston’s long career as well
as an excellent catalog of his buildings and projects." —Larry
Millett in St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Book
Awards
Society of Architectural Historians David Stanley
Gebhard
Award!
Minnesota Book Award for Best Illustrated Book!
Midwest Independent Publishers Award for Best Architecture Book!
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