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The Tender Detail tells a story about repression, sentimentality, sexuality, and ornament in architecture. The protagonists are Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, two of the most important architects and designers in American history. ...

The seventh book in the Architecture in Context series, this is a comprehensive survey of the European tradition of architecture from the pre-dawn of the Enlightenment in early Georgian England to the triumph of Brutalism in the seventh decade of the...

Winner of the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award 2013 presented by the Society of Architectural HistoriansToday, contemporary landscape design is increasingly drawing from ideas of sustainability and ecological stability. Not in fact new, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906257309Author Moisei GinzburgFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint FontankaPublisher FontankaWeight(grams) 620g

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara...

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578406961Author Irving Kaufman ArenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Nostradamus and the 3 Maestros ProductionsPublisher Nostradamus and the 3...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300273168Author Charles BossuFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification...

In this fully illustrated, well-documented study, a historically underappreciated, uniquely American style gets its due. This survey explores the often-overlooked social impact of imposing government buildings in American cities, large and small, that...

Meet the structures of Austrian-American Richard Neutra, master of postwar architecture, whose cool, sleek style synthesized technology with nature. This monograph compiles his works including private homes, schools, and public buildings, illustrated by...

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Back in print, the spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects

One part photo essay, one part urban archeology adventure, and one part rally cry for historic preservation, this grand tour showcases 20th-century architectural treasures in cities around the world.

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This book tells the story of the Lovell Health House in Los Angeles, designed and built by Richard Neutra from 1927 to 1929, from its inspiration through its construction to its impact. It was a 'demonstration house': widely documented and written about...

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Illustrated history of Bath through the centuries.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049047Author Roberta MarcaccioFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new understanding of classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Across Malaysia and Singapore,...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late eighteenth century. Broad definitions of modernity and postmodernity introduce the...

The Yenidze Cigarette Factory of 1909 became perceived as an industrial architectural advertising object that placed Dresden as an important center for the tobacco trade during the second half of the nineteenth century. Born from a unique...

Described by composer Ethel Smyth as brilliant, sociable, amusing and utterly original, Clotilde Brewster defied all the odds by becoming the first woman to work internationally as an architect. She was part of a group of pioneering women in the late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367528997Author Pushkar SohoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

The 20 years between First and Second World Wars were a time of dramatic development for English people and their homes. By the end of the 1930s, one family in three was living in an interwar house. But one thing that did not change was the sentimental...

A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences...

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural...

Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly...