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Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113249Author Jill JonnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 365gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

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...

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) 332gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982373439Author Evangelos LouizosFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Montagu HousePublisher Montagu HouseWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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...

"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...

Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It...

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was white-pure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. The Color of Modernism explodes this myth of whiteness by offering a riot of...

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 9780933316621Author Hilda NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Xenophon Press LLCPublisher Xenophon Press LLCWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of his death (August 27, 2015), one of Le Corbusier's most significant books becomes available again in English. The "Precisions", as the book is commonly known, emerged from a spontaneous and exuberant series of 10...

The Bauhaus Building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius in 1926, represents a "built manifesto of Bauhaus ideas" and is one of modernism's most important buildings. Together with the associated Masters' Houses (Meisterhauser), the Houses with Balcony...

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

A richly illustrated account of the development of Singapore's modern built environment. Everyday Modernism is the first comprehensive documentation of Singapore's modern built environment. Through a lens of social, cultural, and architectural...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087864433Author Gary R RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Toolemera PressPublisher Toolemera PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049016Author Theodora VardouliFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992826543Author Roy DuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint Infodial LtdPublisher Infodial LtdWeight(grams) 703g

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...