This updated edition of Robert McCarter's monograph on Louis I. Kahn explores the architect's profound impact on post-WWII architecture. It showcases key projects, including the Yale University Art Gallery and Kimbell Art Museum, and highlights his legacy with the recently completed Four Freedoms Park.
This comprehensive monograph on architect Marcel Breuer explores his work from the Bauhaus to his own practice in the USA. Authored by Robert McCarter, it details Breuer's architecture and furniture design, including iconic pieces and significant buildings. The new edition features an updated cover and is in print due to popular demand.
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 for his meticulously researched, experientially based, and jargon-free accounts of key figures in modern architecture. This book is the definitive study of Scarpa's many accomplishments, including such works at the Canova Museum, the Castelvecchio Museum, and the Brion Cemetery, among others.
A monograph on Robert Ernest, a forgotten figure in American mid-century modern architecture, who, before passing at the tragically early age of 28, designed three built works that, in ways both direct and indirect, influenced the development of architecture in Florida for the following three generations.