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The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist and the expressive, the monumental and the picturesque...

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world's most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac's book, focused on the inception and construction of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018482Author Rixt WoudstraPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40g

With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162311Author Hugh HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793614056Author Francis Chia-Hui LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common...

The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work--a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262035736Author Stephen J. PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm

For immigrants making the transoceanic journey from Europe or Asia to North America, the experience of a new country began when they disembarked. In Canada the federal government built a network of buildings that provided newcomers with shelter,...

The coup d'etat of July 1936 split Spain in two, shaping a chessboard of terror, misery and death that would put an end to the Republic and give sustenance to dictatorship. In the rebel territory, Franco's soldiers were often not convinced followers, but...

Kem Weber (1889-1960), a well-known mid-century architect, was part of the distinctive West Coast modernism movement that helped shaped the relaxed California lifestyle. He influenced California style during the mid-twentieth century with buildings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783735606990Author Katharina BosseFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Kerber VerlagPublisher Kerber VerlagWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 239mm *...

One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western-and especially Gothic-architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic...

Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, the Young Men's Christian Association built more than a thousand community centers across the United States and in major cities around the world. Dubbed "manhood factories" by Teddy Roosevelt,...

Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies...

This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047975Author Petra BrouwerFormat HardbackPage Count 566Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book is the first detailed study of the Commonwealth Institute's architecture and its exhibition galleries. It shows how the strikingly modern building and its dynamic displays inside worked together to create an immersive 'experience' of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167940Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 332g

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately...

The picture that usually comes to mind when we think of Greek architecture is one of classical temples and ancient sites. This book takes a look at the Greece of reality rather than of the imagination the buildings constructed since the establishment of...

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor, and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his...

While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was...

Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical analysis that situates women's roles both in society and...

"Art and technology: a new unity" - It was with this slogan that the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925. The seven years in Dessau were most productive for the designers and architects at the Bauhaus. This illustrated volume presents the Bauhaus buildings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982373439Author Evangelos LouizosFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Montagu HousePublisher Montagu HouseWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048347Author Jacqueline TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the...

Fresh from their success with "Modernism London Style", hailed by The Financial Times on 29.6.13 as 'this gorgeous photographic survey', photographer Niels Lehmann and editor Christoph Rauhut present their latest exciting project. Fragments of Metropolis...

One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography-so good at representing a building's lines and planes-a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it...

The life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621480976Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architecture...

This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise...

It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British Bombay from 1854 to 1918. Preeti Chopra demonstrates how British Bombay was, surprisingly, a...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. Paradoxically, the impossibility of answering this question opens up the very room...

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048705Author Alfredo Thiermann RiescoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Glass has long transformed the architectural landscape. From the Crystal Palace through to the towering glass spires of today's cities, few architectural materials have held such immense symbolic resonance in the modern era. The Age of Glass explores...