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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047982Author Jean-Louis CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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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...

The architecture of Expressionism marks the starting point of the discipline into the Golden Twenties - also in the urban cityscape of the metropolises of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This volume documents for the first time in a complete overview all the...

Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and longer term aftermath of the Great War on the...

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist's pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germany...

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures - academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and postcolonial - and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis...

Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Prague has become one of Europe's-and the world's-most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to the gorgeous buildings and monuments that grace the streets of Prague,...

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the German capital that embraced their feminine modernity, both culturally and architecturally. Women located their lives and made their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486781204Author Charles LockwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? After the ManifestoA brings together architects and scholars...

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of...

A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the origin of "room temperature"? When did food become considered fresh or not fresh? Why do we think management makes things more...

The revolution in modes of travel during the twentieth century has transformed not only the way we move through the world, but how we perceive it. Architects' Journeys brings together contemporary architects, historians and theorists to consider the role...

The rapid westward expansion of the United States in the early twentieth century set the stage for a new industry: mail-order homes. Sold by such companies as Sears, Roebuck & Co., Aladdin, and Montgomery Ward, these kit homes were shipped by train to...

Building Toys: An Architect's Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author's collection, from the mid-1800s to the present, from the U.S. and abroad. Each toy has an immersive two-page spread celebrating its unique features...

Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen AwardA reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban AmericaAs the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor,...

New York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation - of the big ideas, big personalities, and big risks that collectively shaped a city like no other. From the first European...

There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the...

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

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803102375Author Axel DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Axel DonovanPublisher Axel DonovanWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548340834Author John Van HornFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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London is the supreme railway city. In 1900 it had fourteen railway termini, more than any other city in the world. A century later only one of them has disappeared completely, and just three have undergone comprehensive reconstruction. All the others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540621276Author Geoffrey JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Following the pair of monographic "Sauerbruch Hutton Archives" (Archive, 2006; Archive 2, 2016) Lars Mu ller Publishers presents a reader edited by the architects. Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942661399Author Fred JustFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Kitsap PublishingPublisher Kitsap PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683150084Author Francesco CareriFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Culicidae Architectural PressPublisher Culicidae Architectural PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914934346Author Bruce BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Peacock PressPublisher Peacock PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803102337Author Axel DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Axel DonovanPublisher Axel DonovanWeight(grams) 159g

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