Edward Larrabee Barnes: Architect

New York: Rizzoli. Very Good+. 1995. Paperback. 0847818225 . B&W and Color Illustrations; 10.7 X 7.4 X 1.3 inches; 256 pages; Publication date of 1994 on copyright page. Soft cover is black with white letting on the spine. Light rubbing, scuffing, bumping to covers. Lavishly illustrated with mostly b/w pix, some of them plans and drawings. 'The eminent architect Edward Larrabee Barnes is a member of the generation of influential modernists that emerged in America after World War II. After studying architecture at Harvard University under Bauhaus masters Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, Barnes set up his own practice in New York in 1949. Since then, over the course of a long and varied career, he has worked in a modern vocabulary shaped by his own approach to geometry, composition, and siting. Barnes is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and has received the AIA Twenty-Five-Year Award, the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, the Harvard University 350th Anniversary Medal, and some forty other awards for design excellence. The projects in this monograph present the full range of Barnes' work: office buildings, museums, botanical gardens, private houses, churches, schools, camps, colleges, campus planning, and housing. The extraordinary Dallas Museum of Art and the much-admired Walker Art Center in Minneapolis are among the museums shown...' oversized, 4#. .