| Crystal and Arabesque | Jonathan Massey | The first biography of Claude Bragdon, an early and unique, but often overlooked, advocate of architectural modernism. |
| Dinosaurs of Distinction | Heather Austin | Coffee table-sized art book celebrating DinoMite days, an outdoor exhibit of painted and decorated dinosaur sculptures, taking place in Pittsburgh during the summer of 2003. A Jurassic “Cows on Parade.” |
| Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania | Charles Morse Stotz | The new edition of this long unavailable classic features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright’s House on Kentuck Knob | Donald Hoffmann | The first thorough guide to the design and history of “Kentuck,” designed in 1953–1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright, only seven miles from Fallingwater. Donald Hoffmann includes more than fifty photographs, drawings, diagrams, and a descriptive text to illustrate the structural peculiarities of the house based on the equilateral triangle. |
| Industry in Art | Rina Youngner | Youngner examines the tranformation of the depiction of industry in 19th century Pittsburgh from environmental nuisance to an idealized glorification of industrial might, in both fine art and illustration. |
| Installations, Mattress Factory, 1990-1999 | Michael Olijnyk | Installations is an intriguing restrospective catalog of site-specific installation art exhibited at the internationally renowned museum The Mattress Factory during the 1990s. |
| Panorama of Pittsburgh | Christopher Lane | This book is a testament to the extensive visual representation of Pittsburgh in books, magazines, illustrated newspapers, corporate identity, lithographs, and other types of materials during the nineteenth century. Produced to accompany an exhibition hosted by the Frick Art & Historical Center, guest curator Lane enlightens readers on the printmaking industry in the city and provides the most comprehensive list of prints of nineteenth-century Pittsburgh ever assembled. |
| Pittsburgh | Franklin Toker | Toker examines Pittsburgh in its historical context, in its regional setting, and from the street level (leading the reader on a personal tour through every neighborhood). Based on his 1986 classic, Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait, but with a completely revised text and lavishly illustrated with all new photos and maps, Pittsburgh: A New Portrait reveals the true colors of a great American city.
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| Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. | Martin Aurand | The first comprehensive study of Scheibler, it includes 125 historic and contemporary photographs and drawings, all of Scheibler’s known projects—including many not recorded in any other published source—and a selected bibliography. |
| Samuel Rosenberg | Barbara Jones | Samuel Rosenberg was an influential Pittsburgh-based painter and art instructor. In this biography Barbara Jones tells the story of his life, accompanied by almost ninety reproductions of the artist’s work. |
| Second Suburb | Dianne Harris | Second Suburb uncovers the unique story of Levittown, Pennsylvania, and its significance to American social, architectural, environmental, and political history. |
| Spectator and the Topographical City | Martin Aurand | Examines Pittsburgh’s built environment as it relates to the city’s unique topography—man’s response to an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, and rivers. Adopting a spectator’s viewpoint, Aurand studies three “terrestrial rooms” and their development over time. |
| Steel Shadows | Douglas Cooper | This unique collection features double-page spreads of Douglas Cooper’s charcoal and paper drawings, the inspiration for his artistic vision, formal properties of his art and how it relates to architecture; and essay excerpts from Pittsburgh authors: poetry, historical accounts, and stories of the daily lives of Pittsburghers. Through words and art, his work shows the urban landscape of Pittsburgh as you have never seen it before. |
| Thaddeus Mosley | David Lewis | Thaddeus Mosley is a self-taught African American sculptor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Written by his friend of twenty-five years, this book offers insight and a deep understanding of the life and work of this remarkable man. |
| Wise Extravagance | Kenneth Neal | Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and a major American philanthropist, sought to bring world-class art and culture to Pittsburgh. This book looks at how the Carnegie International exhibit came into being in 1895, the early exhibitions, the art, artists, and the public reception to it. |
