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Title: The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter by Andrew Alpern, Rosario Candela, J. E. R. Carpenter ISBN: 0-926494-20-1 Publisher: Acanthus Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Fancy buildings with awkward, boring floor plans.
Comment: I'm an architect and I bought this book hoping that I would get some good ideas from famous architects. Obviously I sell myself short for I can come up with better floor plans than what were shown in this book.
The floor plans are choppy with poor flow. Rooms are awkwardly shaped. Foyers were not as grand as I would hope for. There's nothing special about these apartments except for probably their price tags.
Rating: 5
Summary: Andrew Alpern's Labor of Love
Comment: Candela and Carpenter were two of New York's most noted architects of the inter-war era, specializing in luxury apartment buildings. Architectural historian Andrew Alpern has assembled a reference text of their buildings, organized in geographic sequence. In this book, a typical building has two pages dedicated to it. One page consists of a floor plan, and the facing page has a photo or rendering of the exterior, combined with a one-to-six sentence description. Also, there are several brief essays at the beginning of the book.
I enjoyed this volume, which Alpern has directed at a very narrow segment of readers, but it's not for everyone. This is a volume for architectural enthusiasts who are intrigued by room arrangements. Others might be better served by a book broader in scope (including some by this same author).
Rating: 5
Summary: Alpern's best work yet
Comment: Alpern has written several books about New York apartment buildings and this is his best. This time he focuses exclusively on the genius of two ground-breaking designers, James Carpenter and Rosario Candela. If you are not adept at reading floor plans (of which there are many), it might not be immediately obvious what defines the genius of these two architects. It is the innovation of their layouts and the graciousness of their spaces that made apartment house living so desireable, allowing for the migration from town house to apartment building. Regardless, everyone will still enjoy the exterior and interior views of these great New York buildings and get a sense of how the rich really live. Alpern raises our awareness of the apartment house type in the City to a higher level, just as others had focused on the greatness of NYC's commercial structures.
Each building is described in detail and there is some chatty material about who lived where, who bought what, and maybe a little more of that would have added fun to the book. There is a chronology of all the buildings and I would have liked to have seen thumbnail pictures of the buildings next to the timeline, since the book is organized geographically. It is otherwise an excellent and elegant study of the complete apartment house works of these two great designers.
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Title: New YorkÂs Fabulous Luxury Apartments, with Original Floor Plans from the Dakota by Andrew Alpern ISBN: 048625318X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan : An Illustrated History by Andrew Alpern ISBN: 0486273709 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 06 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich by Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Jayne ISBN: 0393730875 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth by Steven Ruttenbaum ISBN: 0917439090 Publisher: Balsam Press Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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Title: McKim, Mead & White : The Masterworks by Samuel G. White, Elizabeth White ISBN: 0847825671 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 22 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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