Center Publications
The CENTER: Architecture and Design in America series
The Center's proudest production is the award-winning book series,CENTER:Architecture and Design in America. Each volume is a forward-looking, serious exploration of current themes in architecture by some of the country's top authors and architects and is of high production value.
There are 13 volumes in the CENTER book series, with the 14th issue (Volume 15) expected in 2009.
- Center, Vol. 14: On Landscape Urbanism
(2007), ISBN 0-93451-04-7 - Center, Vol. 12/13: The Good Building/Pressing Style
(2003), ISBN 0-93451-04-7 - Center, Vol. 11: Value 2
(1998), ISBN 0-934951-02-0 - Center, Vol. 10: Value
(1997), ISBN 0-292-71200-6 - Center, Vol. 9: Regarding the Proper
(1995), ISBN 0-292-71176-X - Center, Vol. 8: Dwelling: Social Life, Buildings, and the Spaces Between Them
(1993), ISBN 0-292-71163-8 - Center, Vol. 7: The Final Decade: Architectural Issues for the 1990s and Beyond
(1992), ISBN 0-8478-5553-8 - Center, Vol. 6: Architecture vs. Planning: Collision and Collaboration in the Design of American Cities
(1990), ISBN 0-8478-5492-2 - Center, Vol. 5: Modernist Visions and the Contemporary American City
(1989), ISBN 0-8478-5491-4 - Center, Vol. 4: Buildings and Reality: Architecture in the Age of Information
(1988), ISBN 0-8478-5484-1 - Center, Vol. 3: New Regionalism
(1987), ISBN 0-8478-5453-1 - Center, Vol. 2: Ah, Meditteranean! Twentieth Century Classicism in America
(1986), ISBN 0-8478-5414-0 - Center, Vol. 1: Architecture for the Emerging American City
(1985), ISBN 0-8478-5396-9
The CENTERLINE series
With volumes alike only in format (8" x 8"), the Centerline series prints essays on and around architecture, too good to be published commercially, important maybe, and interesting always.
- Centerline, Volume 3: Rome Sojourn
(2008), ISBN 978-0-934951-09-8 - Centerline, Volume 2: God, Creativity, and Evolution
(2008), ISBN 978-0-934951-08-1 - Centerline, Volume 1: Dance Halls of Central Texas
(2005), ISBN 0-934951-05-5
The O'Neil Ford Monograph Series
Discovering and rediscovering fine modern architecture around the world, the architecture discussed in both of the O'Neil Ford series are documented with rigor, commented upon with insight, and designed with clarity.
- O'NFM, Volume 1: Bouca Residents Association Housing
(2008), ISBN 978-3-8030-0684-4 - O'NFM, Volume 2: St. Petri Church
(2008), ISBN 978-3-8030-0698-1
The O'Neil Ford Duograph Series
- O'NFD, Volume 1: Chile - House, Crypt
(2008), ISBN 978-3-8030-0685-1 - O'NFM, Volume 2: Brazil - House in Rio Bonito, House in Santa Teresa
(2009) ISBN 978-3-8030-0699-8
Other CENTER publications
Limited quantities available.
- Transit, Land Use and Urban Form, edited by Wayne Attoe, The University of Texas Press, 1988.
- Harwell Hamilton Harris, exhibition catalog, by Lisa Germany, Center for the Study of American Architecture, 1985.
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