LW! Bookshelf
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Shop LW’s Bookshelf for the best of New York City architecture and history at great ‘Members Only’ prices! Every purchase supports our ongoing preservation work.
Back from Utopia
Hubert-Jan Henket and Hilde Heynen (editors)
$40
- Gathers more than 40 contributions by leading voices from the world of architecture and architectural history to reassess the modernist legacy across the world-from Eastern and Western Europe to India and Japan.architecture.
- Softcover. 400 pages.
Ten Restaurants that Changed America
by Paul Freedman
$20
- Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freeman reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects America’s own history. From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurants.
- Hardcover. 560 pages.
We Are Staying
by Jen Rubin
$20
- Jen Rubin shares a poignant story of all that an 80-year old Upper West Side family business brings to a neighborhood, and reflects on what is lost when her own family’s and other “mom and pop” stores disappear.
- Softcover. 210 pages.
Images of American Architecture
by Robert Miles Parker
$5
- A compilation of preservationist Miles Parker’s distinctive pen and ink architectural drawings of buildings large and small that captured his imagination during a 1974 cross-country tour.
- Published 1981.
- Hardcover. 142 pages.
My Preservation Journal
by LANDMARK WEST!
$10
- My Preservation Journal introduces K-5 students to the concept of architectural design, its importance in their everyday lives, the story of their neighborhood’s development, and the need to preserve the past for their own future. This interactive study guide engages students in an ongoing dialogue concerning their built environment while developing strong visual and critical thinking skills. In studying and exploring their own surroundings as they were and as they are today, children relate local history to their own world of home, school, and neighborhood.
- Softcover. 52 pages.
Bridges of Central Park
by Henry Hope Reed, Robert M. McGee, and Esther Mipaas
$10
- There were, and are, few who knew Central Park as intimately as Henry Hope Reed. Join him on a luxurious amble across the bridges of Central Park – from the graceful Bow Bridge, which sweeps across the Lake, to the tiny Gill Bridge, which hooks over a nearby stream. Most were designed by Calvert Vaux in the early 1860’s and embrace the vibrant color, bold geometry and marvelous detail of the Victorian Gothic period. Entries for each of the 24 bridges contain their history and design and are paired with photographs and drawings by Ronald Rife and Joseph LoGuirato. This book is the perfect companion for a long stroll through the jewel of New York City in any season.
- Softcover. 96 pages.
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski
$20
- In this New York Times Notable Book, Witold Rybczynski illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of 19th century American history. We know Olmsted through his stunning landscapes, but his contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinary talents who traveled to China at 21, co-founded The Nation magazine, and was an early voice against slavery. Rybczynski’s understanding of Olmsted’s immense complexity make his book an engaging intellectual adventure.
- Hardcover. 480 pages.
Philip Trager
by Philip Trager
$20
- This overview of the photographs of Philip Trager offers readers full access to one of the 20th century’s most important photographers of architecture and dance, combining work from his previous monographs with unpublished photographs from a wide range of projects. His distinctly personal images of buildings are regarded as landmark works in architectural photography. It includes an extensive interview with the artist, an illustrated section of selected projects and commissions, and essays by distinguished specialists.
- Hardcover. 312 pages.
