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"View Slideshow\n\n__ROOMS\n\n Photographs by Derry Moore__\n\n Over his more than 30 years of creating images for books and international periodicals, Architectural Digest included, Derry Moore\u2014who is the 12th Earl of Drogheda\u2014has enjoyed unparalleled access to the residences of aristocrats and other prominent members of society. His compositional trademark, as the Joseph Holtzman-edited and -designed compendium of 24 of Moore's grandest subjects so beautifully demonstrates, is a masterly technical proficiency with natural light. Carl Skoggard's text is the perfect accompaniment\u2014a fluid and witty guide of a tour that wraps fascinatingly around the world, from 1975 to 2005.\n\n Rizzoli, $55\n\n__NEW YORK 2000\n\n Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium The 10-pound, 1,520-page fifth, and final, installment in Robert A. M. Stern__'s monumental survey of architecture and urbanism in New York City honors its weighty subject with 1,800 color illustrations and layer upon layer of exhaustively researched detail\u2014all of it composed with concern for the lay reader. An excellent overview is provided by the introduction, which effectively sets up the borough-by-borough and, in Manhattan, neighborhood-by-neighborhood assessment of the period's many emotional and politically charged ups and downs.\n\n The Monacelli Press, $100\n\n__MATERIALIZING THE IMMATERIAL\n\n The Architecture of Wallace Cunningham__\n\n \"Open up a structure to sky, landscape and view,\" says Wallace Cunningham, \"and the building becomes alive. Your soul has a place to enter.\" That philosophy comes alive on the page in his first monograph, a provocative look at the self-trained architect's past, present and promising future, authored by AD contributing writer Joseph Giovannini. Each of the 20 featured projects appears in striking illustrations\u2014among them, color photos by AD contributing photographer Erhard Pfeiffer. For admirers of architecture informed by nature, it's a trip into thrilling realms.\n\n Yale University Press, $50\n\n__HISTORIC HOUSES OF VIRGINIA\n\n Great Plantation Houses, Mansions, and Country Places__\n\n With distinguished insight from Calder Loth, of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Richard Guy Wilson, of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, establishing the volume's authoritative yet accessible tone, writer Kathryn Masson and Steven Brooke, a contributing photographer for AD, present a newly photographed consideration of 20 enduring icons of America's architectural heritage. From the exteriors to the interiors to the many splendid gardens, Brooke's color pictures offer a close, exceptionally rewarding encounter with each house.\n\n Rizzoli, $55\n\n__MODERN TO CLASSIC\n\n Residential Estates by Landry Design Group__\n\n The 430-page monograph\u2014the first\u2014on the work of Richard Landry takes readers behind the scenes of 17 of the Los Angeles-based architect's \"dream houses\" for such clients as Keyshawn Johnson, Wayne Gretzky and Kenny G. Seen primarily through the eye of Erhard Pfeiffer, the houses are showcased with an uncommon lavishness and depth of detail\u2014an average of 19 color images per home. A trio of concise essays, including a historical-context-providing foreword by Paul Goldberger, opens the tour.\n\n Oro Editions, $75"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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