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Architecture Today by James Steele Synopsis This work is a survey of trends in architecture worldwide since the 1960s. It takes as its starting point the international modernism that was once the norm, and charts its disintegration and the counter-movements and styles that have replaced it over... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price: $16.75 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Modern Architecture (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton Publisher Comments This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For the fourth edition Kenneth Frampton has added a major new section that explores the effects of globalization on architecture in recent... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Architecture Since 1900 (3RD 96 Edition) by William J. R. Curtis Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tradition of Modern Architecture #1: History of Modern Architecture - Vol. 1 by Leonardo Benevolo Publisher Comments Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality illustrations, and it reflects throughout its publisher's conviction that good design is an... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris by Patricia A Morton Publisher Comments The 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The Exposition displayed the people... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago by Carol Willis Publisher Comments "Seldom does a title summarize so tersely and completely the contents of a book as does that of Carol Willis's brisk, lucid investigation into the forces that shaped the prodigious tall buildings of America's two major turn-of-the-century metropolises....... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925 by Carl W Condit Publisher Comments This thoroughly illustrated study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginning with the functional innovations of William Le Baron and others to their imaginative development by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright (Norton Library) by Peter Blake Publisher Comments Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a new and dramatic concept of space and freedom. Through this triple focus, Peter Blake provides a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination by Neil Spiller Publisher Comments A complete and authoritative resource for professionals and students. The design of imaginary, conceptual, or radical buildings is as old as the practice of architecture itself. For centuries, architects such as Piranesi, Ledoux, and Sant'Elia have drawn... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Story of Modern Architecture by Paolo Favole Publisher Comments Focusing on modern architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this diverse period. Part of an accessibly written and generiously illustrated series on architecture through the ages,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Light Engines and Other Architectural Experiments by Damon Leverett Publisher Comments Light Engines and Other Architectural Experiments is a monograph concerning a series of art and design projects by architect and designer Damon Leverett. Completed over a period of 10 years, these projects explore ideas about the role of art in... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Architecture in Photography by Paolo Rosseli Publisher Comments The work of Paolo Rosselli.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Interior Architecture Now by Jennifer Hudson Publisher Comments "Interior architecture is not about cosmetic surgery but about complete organ transplant. The individuals and companies featured in this book are not only working with surface and appearance but also in the control of shape, space, services, and identity.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Architect Meets Architects (Engl by Werner Blaser Publisher Comments From Aalto to Zumthor - architect Werner Blaser looks back on his encounters with 50 of the protagonists, providing a personal and refreshing appraisal of the personalities which have dominated and illuminated this epoch. Brief texts and duotone... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Art and Architecture: Strategies in Collaboration by Christian Bjone Publisher Comments Since the beginning of the 20th century, artists and architects have often been in collaboration. This relationship was not necessarily without conflict - on the contrary, a productive tension and friction can often be found at the basis of their common... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $66.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Julius Shulman Publisher Comments The renowned architectural photographer shares seven decades’ worth of images of the city he loved, celebrated, and made iconic. With a life and career spanning nearly a century, Julius Shulman is credited with furthering the midcentury modernism... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Modern Architecture by Derek Avery Publisher Comments Spans the period from 1920 until today, and details the great diversity of international buildings, styles and technological developments that have provided such rich and imaginative heritage for everyone in the new millennium.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know by Josef Strasser Synopsis This new volume in the successful series is an introduction to one of the most influential movements in modern architecture, art and design.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Modern Architecture A-Z by Peter Gossel Publisher Comments The incredible, indispensable TASCHEN encyclopedia of architecture, unlike most architecture encyclopedias, which tend to concentrate more on buildings and floor plans than their designers, tome puts the architects in the spotlight, profiling individuals... (read more) List Price $250.00 Your price: $99.98 Sale - Hardcover
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