Leatherbarrow, Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture
The progressive movements from the turn of the nineteenth century to the dawn of World War I largely preconditioned the modern avant-gardes that ...
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In this wonderful collection of essays, virtuoso designer Max Bill (1908-1994) explores overlapping disciplinary boundaries to interrogate form, function and beauty and address ...
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Kruft, History of Architectural Theory
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The first section of the book consists of six rigorously argued essays that investigate the language of modernism, language and drawing, “masculine and ...
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An important volume available in Italian and in English, produced in co-edition with 24 ORE Culture, that through long and complex archival research ...
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Having Words collects together for the first time ten essays by the pioneering architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown. Educated in the ...
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The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who ...
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Architecture Culture 1943-1968 is an anthology of seventy-four international documents with critical commentary. Both a sourcebook and a companion history of architecture, the ...
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Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in ...
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