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Questions about the origins and designers modern architecture.

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The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar in 1919 by the German architect Walter Gropius, moved to Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932, and was ... More

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic examines America's preference for invented environments--theme parks, shopping malls, and historic ... More

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The author of numerous books on the history of architecture, Lewis Mumford focused on the roles that technology and urbanism have played in modern ... More

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"A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture" presents the most thorough and comprehensive view yet published of American architecture from ... More

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This second book in the series "International Architecture & Interiors" deals with new home designs in New York and the United States. Rather than ... More

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Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was the last of a generation of architects that included Marcel Breuer, Jose Luis Sert, and Louis I. Kahn, European ... More

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The architect of some of Los Angeles's most admired houses, Pierre Koenig is a pioneer of what became known as the "Case Study House Program". This ... More

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This book looks at Kahn's solutions for bringing natural light into buildings and his innovative applications of artificial lighting. Illustrations ... More

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A study of the civic architecture of Paul Cret.

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For almost two decades the work of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti has remained at the forefront of theoretical production. Their rigorously ... More

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New trends in architecture and design abound in America today. And if design is a way to respond to social conditions, if it expresses the moods and ... More

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Gavin Macrae-Gibson is the first of a generation of architects educated in the 1970s to construct a method of criticism powerful enough to interpret ... More

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