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Modern Views
Goldberger, Lambert
Assouline
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In this book, one hundred artists, architects, and designers reflect on the idea and reality of glass houses, and respond to two of modernism's greatest masterpieces: the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the Phil...
Neutra : Complete Works
Barbara Lamprecht
Taschen
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All of Richard Neutra's works gathered together in one volume.
 
Prefabulous + Sustainable : Building and Customizing an Affo...
Sheri Koones
Abrams
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Prefabulous and Sustainable dispels the negative myths associated with prefab homes and shows the reader how beautiful and remarkably green prefab homes are.
Vitamin Green
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Editors of Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press, Inc.
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Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every ...
 
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"Symbolic Essence" & Other Writings on Modern Architecture and Culture
William H. Jordy
Yale University Press
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Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's entire career and includes his signature essay, -- The Symbolic Essence of Modern Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence.
 
  
100 Contemporary Green Buildings
Philip Jodidio
Taschen
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This book brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new, never-seen-before projects.
 
  
100 Ideas that Changed Architecture
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Richard Weston
Laurence King
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This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Entertaining and intelligent, it provides a concise history of the subject, and is also a fascinating resource to dip into.
 
  
10x10_3
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Editors of Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press, Inc.
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Like its successful predecessors 10x10 (published in 2000) and 10x10_2 (published in 2005), 10x10_3 is a comprehensive overview of contemporary world architecture. Generously illustrated, this volume presents 100 of the world's most exceptional emerging architects, selected by 10 esteemed members of the international architecture community.
 
  
20th Century Industrial Archaeology
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Stratton & Trinder
Routledge
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A comprehensive study of architecture identified as Modern Industrial Britain. Drawing on the idea of archeology and process recording, this book raises questions about British History.
 
  
20th-Century World Architecture : The Phaidon Atlas
Editors of Phaidon
Phaidon Press, Inc.
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20th Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999.
 
  
50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know
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Josef Strasser
Prestel
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The Bauhaus set new standards with its functional designs, new approaches to art, and experimental teaching methods. Its avant-garde, minimalist idiom made Bauhaus works coveted items, whether in architecture, design, graphics or painting, and they now enjoy the status of timeless classics.
 
  
50 Buildings You Should Know
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Isabel Kuhl
Prestel
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Attractive, useful and entertaining, this collection of great buildings is a course in architectural history for readers of all ages. The fifty buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from all over the world. Along with the Pyramids of Cheops, the Parthenon, and the Colosseum, readers will learn about other masterpieces such as the Hagia Sophia in Turkey; Cambodia's Temple Complex at Angkor Wat; the Potala Palace in Lhasa; and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
 
  
A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Art : Van Abbemuseum
Debbaut & Verhulst
NAi
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In the early 1930s Henri van Abbe began to dream of building a center in Eindhoven where its people could be introduced to the mysteries of contemporary art--a place where they could enjoy art. In 1936 he realized this dream by donating to the city the Van Abbemuseum, which, at that time, still consisted primarily of artworks purchased and placed on loan by Henri van Abbe himself.
 
  
A Country of Cities : A Manifesto for an Urban America
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Metropolis Books
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In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility.
 
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