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Building the Future: Building Technology and Cultural History from the Industrali Revolution Until Today
by Ulrich Pfammatter  Publisher Comments Spanning the last two centuries??????and offering cogent analyses of how we will build in the future??????this volume presents over one hundred case studies of built structures that illustrate the marriage of building technology and culture. Including...
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Twentieth Century Architecture
by Dennis Doordan Synopsis A survey of 20th-century architecture, selecting significant moments and unravelling the attendant political, social and technological strands. The author not only describes buildings but also the evolution of design tools and their impact on...
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism
by Felicity D Scott Publisher Comments In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines...
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The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection
by Terence Riley Synopsis What would it be like to live in R. Buckminster Fuller's hexagonal Dymaxion House? To visit Arata Isozaki's project for Hiroshima? To grow up in John Hejduk's Wall House? There are only fictional answers to questions such as these, but what imagination...
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High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline
by Jim Rasenberger Publisher Comments “ HIGH STEEL is a testament to an incredible group of workers that ranks right up there with Gay Talese’ s classic THE BRIDGE....Part lost American history, part adventure story and part anthropological study.”...
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Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Third Revised and Enlarged Edition)
by Kenneth Frampton Publisher Comments "One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today."—Architectural Design "A useful and wide-ranging work of superior architectural scholarship, this ambitious publication contains many chapters that stand on their own as...
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Shaping a Nation: Twentieth-Century American Architecture and Its Makers
by Carter Wiseman Publisher Comments An authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form. Carter Wiseman, one of this country's most respected architecture critics and historians, here presents an...
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Constructed View
by Joseph Rosa Publisher Comments Julius Shulman, one of the great master of architectural photography, is the preeminent recoreder of early California modernism. By 1927, when he was sixteen, Shulman was already using the family Brownie box camera to document his Southern Californis...
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Interdisciplinary Architecture
by Nicoletta Trasi Synopsis Takes a holistic view of the design of our environment, covering historical precedents, contemporary developments, and possible future trends. * Comprehensively illustrated with many lavish photographs, as well as plans and drawings. * Material draws...
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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...
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The 1970s Is Here and Now
by Samantha Hardingham Synopsis The 1970's was marked by a seismic change that occurred in the representation of ideas in architecture as they appeared monthly on the pages of AD. The magazine bears out the energetic, experimental, environmentally-conscious and ultimately pluralist...
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The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard
by Anthony Alofsin Synopsis This Book Tells how modernism evolved in the most celebrated design school in America. Tracing developments at Harvard, whose Graduate School of Design was home from 1937 to 1952 of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, it shows that America had initiated its...
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Architecture for Benetton: Works of Afra and Tobia Scarpa and Tadao Ando
by Vignelli Massimo Synopsis Because United Colors of Benetton's core business is clothing, the contemporary culture of design plays an important role in the group's activity, including its corporate architecture. Benetton's international brand style― combining color, energy...
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Archigram: Architecture Without Architecture
by Simon Sadler Publisher Comments In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture...
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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....
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Building a Better Tomorrow: Architecture in 1950s
by Robert Elwall Synopsis This book provides an introductory overview to a period which is now being increasingly studied, and in which there is burgeoning interest. Although the book is primarily visual, photographs have been chosen according to how well they illustrate the...
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Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht
by Bryan Burkhart 
Powells.com Staff Pick Mid-century houses were better. So were mid-century cars. It would follow, then, that mid-century homes on wheels were better too. Well, they were. Not that RVs are really a category worth arguing about. But there is one fifth wheel that holds its place...
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100 Marvels of the Modern World
by Alison Ahearn Publisher Comments From awe-inspiring skyscrapers designed to be noticed to the impressive engineering of the bridges, tunnels, and energy-generating wind fields, viaducts, and dams for which function is just as important as form, 100 MODERN MARVELS OF THE WORLD displays...
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The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years
by Richard W Hayes Synopsis Conceived by architect Charles W. Moore and begun in the context of social activism and dramatic institutional change during the 1960s, the Yale Building Project has contributed to the education of many of this country's leading architects, serving as...
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Bauhaus Dessau: Architecture-Design-Concept
by Kirsten Baumann Publisher Comments Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Dessau was, from 1925 to 1932, the headquarters of the famous Bauhaus School of Design. After a dozen years of National Socialist use and then half a century's worth of restoration, it is now a UNESCO world cultural-heritage site,...
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