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American Architects and the Single-Family Home: Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau by Lisa M. Tucker 9781138837843
RRP: €64.25€55.78American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects' Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they... -
Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House by Esra Akcan 9780822352945
€124.96In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields. She shows how members of the ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further aligned... -
WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the New Deal by Joseph W. Maresca 9780764352119
RRP: €48.78€32.21In 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... -
Ideal Homes, 1918-39: Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism by Deborah Sugg Ryan 9780719068843
RRP: €95.20€67.94This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of... -
Home of Ones Own / Emigrierte Architekten und ihre Hauser: Emigre Architects and Their Houses. 19201960 by Burcu Dogramaci 9783869050089
RRP: €71.28€50.29Text in English & German. When architects design a house for themselves, the often tense relationship between clients and builders is usually absent. That is why in many such buildings the architect-designers artistic stance and political position,... -
Heiner Thofern: Beautiful Games: Roman Entrances by Ute Eskildsen 9783969990605
RRP: €41.65€26.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969990605Author Ute EskildsenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl PublishersWeight(grams) 500g -
Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Heather Laird 9781802078787
€119.73What did it mean to have an ‘Irish’ dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine what constituted home? Showcasing research from scholars based in Ireland, the United Kingdom and further... -
Taming the Oriental Bazaar: Architecture of the Market-Halls of Colonial India by Pushkar Sohoni 9780367487119
RRP: €148.75€128.35Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in the architectural programme, these buildings were meant to be monuments and markers of modernity in South Asia... -
Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 by Tracey A. Sowerby 9780367767426
RRP: €45.21€39.72In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman court in Constantinople emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia. Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 takes a unique approach to diplomatic relations by focusing on how... -
The Color of Modernism: Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany by Deborah Ascher Barnstone 9781350251342
RRP: €95.20€83.54One 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... -
Karl Langer: Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics by Dr Deborah van der Plaat 9781350068100
€115.67Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism... -
Italian Imprints on Twentieth-Century Architecture by Professor Denise Costanzo 9781350257726
€122.01Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist... -
John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life by Danielle Shapiro 9780816693412
RRP: €35.69€31.40What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had... -
Greetings From Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City by Dan Austin 9780814344118
RRP: €29.69€24.41A pictorial history of Detroit through postcards. Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiledand... -
Architects and Engineers: Modes of Cooperation in the Interwar Period, 1919–1939 by Roland May
RRP: €53.55€48.09In the first decades of the 20th century, civil engineers were widely seen as a role model for future architects. Their role within the contemporary architecture movements, however, was hardly discussed. To this day, even fundamental questions about... -
Architectural Culture in British-Mandate Jerusalem by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler
RRP: €107.10€87.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474457491Author Inbal Ben-Asher GitlerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Marble Halls: Civic and Urban Architecture in the Gilded Age by Wayne Craven
€109.68Marble Halls is about the great civic buildings that were designed in the style of Beaux-Arts classicism during the Gilded Age (1865–1918) and about the City Beautiful movement that was intended to improve the setting for the buildings and the urban... -
Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in Red Vienna and Cold War Berlin by Margaret Haderer
RRP: €127.33€121.30In Vienna after WWI and Berlin after WWII, the provision of mass housing not only was a response to a dire social need but also served as a key lever for building variants of socialism and liberalism. Zooming into the interplay between political... -
Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi by Dr. Mrinalini Rajagopalan
RRP: €57.12€48.11Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi the Red Fort, Rasul Numa dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and Qutb complex tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. ?Mrinalini... -
Franco's Soldiers: Transnational and Sociological Analysis of Recruitment and Combat in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) by Francisco J. Leira-Castiñeira
€44.45The 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... -
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia by Luis E. Carranza
RRP: €53.55€47.68Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015 Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic,... -
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony by Michelangelo Sabatino
RRP: €42.84€38.07A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropyAvant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest... -
Making the Most of Tomorrow: A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism by Matej Spurny
RRP: €23.80€20.68Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expectations ran high; in the end, however, Most became a symbol for the... -
Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall: A Study of Collaboration by Stuart Cohen
RRP: €32.07€21.37In 1897, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Spencer, Dwight Perkins, and Myron Hunt, all young architects just starting out in practice, shared office space in Chicago. This book is both a history of that brief period and an attempt to assess the extent to which... -
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents by Hilde Heynen
RRP: €32.12€28.37A major voice in the architectural culture of the mid-century, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was uniquely engaged with modernism and modernity. As one of the very few female architectural critics of the time, she was an early voice articulating doubts about the path... -
Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
RRP: €58.31€47.81The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle's architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the region's built environment. Twenty years later, the second edition... -
Giuseppe Terragni: His War, His End by Valerio Paolo Mosco
RRP: €26.18€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788855210522Author Valerio Paolo MoscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Forma EdizioniPublisher Forma EdizioniWeight(grams) 160g -
Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape: Blood, Soil, Building by David H. Haney
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape.For the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was... -
Total Design by George H. Marcus
RRP: €17.83€14.22Celebrating the ultimate masterpieces of modernist design, from the Arts and Crafts movement up to the twenty-first century, Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Each of the spectacular houses making up Total... -
City of Neighborhoods: Philadelphia, 1890-1910 by Joseph Minardi
RRP: €38.07€24.28This book covers the 20 years that transformed Philadelphia into a city of neighborhoods, from Kingsessing to Wissahickon. At the turn of the 20th century, Philadelphia was the "workshop of the world," with builders toiling tirelessly to fill the... -
Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya
RRP: €148.75€126.24Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to... -
Notes from Another Los Angeles: Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape by Anthony Fontenot
RRP: €53.55€37.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046657Author Anthony FontenotFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Drawing the Unbuildable: Seriality and Reproduction in Architecture by Nerma Cridge
RRP: €57.11€49.75Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not just unbuilt, but cannot be built. This distinct form of... -
Chicago Makes Modern: How Creative Minds Changed Society by Mary Jane Jacob
RRP: €42.84€42.64Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern - from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings and institutions, from the New Bauhaus to Hull-House. Despite this, the city has long been overlooked as... -
Making the Arctic City: The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North by Dr Peter Hemmersam
€32.68Making 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... -
Lower Austria: The Architectural Landscape 1848 to 1918 by Ferrum--Kulturwerkstatte Kunstbank
RRP: €29.75€19.49Lower Austria is not only the country's largest federal state, its beautiful and varied landscape also makes it a popular tourist destination. Many of its pretty towns and villages are only a short journey from Austria's capital Vienna. This new... -
The Tender Detail: Ornament and Sentimentality in the Architecture of Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright by Daniel E. Snyder
RRP: €32.12€27.89The 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. ... -
Modernity: Enlightenment and Revolution - ideal and unforeseen consequence by Christopher Tadgell
RRP: €65.44€59.64The 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... -
Architectural Culture in British-Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948 by Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler
RRP: €24.98€23.31Examines a fascinating and critical epoch in the architectural history of Jerusalem. It proposes a fresh and analytical discussion of British Mandate-era architecture by studying four buildings that have had a lasting impact on Jerusalem's built... -
When Modern Was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge by David H. Haney
RRP: €70.20€60.79Winner 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...