Friends and Colleagues,

There’s a lot a construction going on in Richmond these days.  There are times when I see a new building going up and, frankly, I respond negatively. I say to myself, that is so ugly it is defacing the landscape.  My inner voice then reprimands me – “Don’t be such a curmudgeon!” “Why not?” (continuing the inner conversation).   “These new developments all look alike.  And they’re hideous.  Furthermore, they’re all about money!”  The inner dialogue sometimes end like this: “That’s my opinion.  I’m entitled to it.  And I’m sticking with it.”

There are other instances where my response is quite different:  “That building is really magnificent [or striking] [or beautiful].” “Gosh, look how that fountain changes our perspective of the room.”  And so on.

These are responses to the built environment.  I think we all have them.   Sometimes good.  Sometimes negative.  Some of the books on this list might encourage a similar set of responses.

Do they for you?

Cheers,

Nick

Andrew Carnegie. [AMERICANA] ANDREW CARNEGIE ALS UNION IRON MILLS LETTERHEAD 1867. Price: $3,000.00	Howard Hibbard. [ARCHITECTURE] CARLO MADERNO AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE 1580-1630. Price: $150.00
Francesco Milzia. [ARCHITECTURE] OPERE COMPLETE DI FRANCESCO MILIZIA RISGUARDANTI LA BELLA ARTI (9 VOLUMES). Price: $600.00	Allen Braham | Peter Smith. FRANCOIS MANSART TEXT AND PLATES (II VOLUMES). Price: $150.00
Bie Plevoets | Koenraad Van Cleempoel. [ARCHITECTURE] ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE BUILT HERITAGE CONCEPTS AND CASES OF AN EMERGING DISCIPLINE. Price: $150.00	Arnaldo Bruschi. [ARCHITECTURE] [ITALIAN] BRAMANTE ARCHITETTO. Price: $200.00
Chris Johnston. [ARCHITECTURE] MID-RISE URBAN LIVING. Price: $50.00	J. Daniel Pezzoni | Gary Gallagher. [ARCHITECTURE] THE ARCHITECTURE OF HISTORIC ROCKBRIDGE. Price: $75.00
Manfredo Tafuri. [ARCHITECTURE] INTERPRETING THE RENAISANCE PRINCES, CITIES, ARCHITECTS. Price: $75.00	Jorg Garms. [ARCHITECTURE] VEDUTE DI ROMA DAL MEDIOEVO AL’OTTOCENTO ATLANTE INCOGRAFICO, TOPOGRAFICO, ARCHITETTONICO (II VOLUMES). Price: $250.00
Paul Davies | David Hemsoll. [REVIEW COPY][ARCHITECTURE] THE PAPER MUSEUM OF CASSIANO DAL POZZO RENAISSANCE AND LATER ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT (TWO VOLUMES). Price: $250.00	Ralph Clarke Kingman. [ARCHITECTURE] NEW ENGLAND GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE 55 MEASURED DRAWINGS WITH FULL SIZE DETAILS. Price: $150.00
Cecil C. Evers (Vice-President of the Lawyers Mortgage Co.). [ARCHITECTURE] THE COMMERCIAL PROBLEM IN BUILDINGS: A DISCUSSION OF THE ECONOMIC AND STRUCTURAL ESSENTIALS OF PROFITABLE BUILDING, AND THE BASIS FOR VALUATION OF IMPROVED REAL ESTATE. Price: $100.00	J. Guadet | J. L. Pascal. [ARCHITECTURE] ELEMENTS ET THEORIE DE L’ARCHITECTURE COURS PROFESSE A L’ECOLE NATIONALE ET SPECIALE DES BEAUX-ARTS (IV VOLUMES). Price: $100.00
Daniel H. Burnham. [ARCHITECTURE] REPORT OF D. H. BURNHAM ON THE IMPROVEMENT AND ADORNMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO. Price: $225.00	James M. Corner | E. E. Soderholtz. [ARCHITECTURE] EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ENGLAND. Price: $150.00
Marie Tanner. [ARCHITECTURE] JERUSALEM ON THE HILL ROME AND THE VISION OF SAINT PETER’S BASILICA IN THE RENAISSANCE. Price: $100.00	Christopher Luitpold Frommel. [ARCHITECTURE] DER ROMISCHE PALASTBAU DER HOCHENAISSANCE (3 VOLUMES). Price: $350.00
Robert P. Winthrop | ; Illustrated by John Zihmer. [ARCHITECTURE] THE JACKSON WARD HISTORIC DISTRICT. Price: $50.00	J. A. L. Waddell. [ENGINEERING] [ARCHITECTURE] THE DESIGNING OF ORDINARY IRON HIGHWAY BRIDGES. Price: $350.00
Philip Johnson; Henry-Russell Hitchcock. [SIGNED][ARCHITECTURE] MODERN ARCHITECTURE: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Price: $750.00