Robert McCarter

This acclaimed book is the most comprehensive publication on architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). It examines in detail all the houses, furniture, and public buildings he designed in Europe and the United States, from his beginnings at the Bauhaus through his collaboration with Walter Gropius, to establishing his own practice in the USA. Written by acclaimed architect and writer...

Newly revised, this comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyses Wright's work chronologically, exploring each building's spatial experience, material, tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, this definitive account of the...

US architect Louis Kahn (1901 74) was one of the greatest influences on world architecture during the second half of the twentieth century. This monograph focuses on Kahn s major designs from the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Phillips Exeter Library, Exeter, New Hampshire...

The acclaimed survey of the life and works of the celebrated Italian modernist master, available again in a classic format. The work of Carlo Scarpa challenged, and continues to challenge, accepted notions of modern architecture. While several books have been published on his work, none has approached the breadth and depth of this monograph by Robert McCarter, who is celebrated...

The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects highlights the achievements of the esteemed MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an international reputation. Known for producing a wide range of projects both in Canada and further afield, the firm works in a sophisticated modern vernacular idiom. They draw inspiration from a rich local heritage of building types, reinterpreting them...