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Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona
Lawrence W. Cheek
Hardcover - $29.95
- First full-length study of Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona
- Sheds new light on a turning point in Wright's career
Concrete : The Vision of a New Architecture
Peter Collins
Paperback - $65.95
Concrete, Peter Collins's first book, is an avowedly polemical and controversial combination of two studies: the origins and evolution of reinforced concrete and the life and work of the seminal French architect Auguste Perret. Collins provides a tho ...
Domesticity at War
Beatriz Colomina
Hardcover - $77.95
In the years immediately following World War II, America embraced modern architecture--not as something imported from Europe, but as an entirely new mode of operation, with original and captivating designs made in the USA. In "Domesticity at War," Be ...
Privacy and Publicity : Modern Architecture as Mass Media
Beatriz Colomina
Paperback - $59.95
Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media. Architecture is more than buildings that ...
Architecture of the Indeterminacy
Yago Conde
Paperback - $41.95
"We should, then, understand this 'indeterminacy' as a certain state of suspension of the precise meaning of the object, resulting from the re-questioning of the limits in which this is inscribed". The book proposes to investigate those episodes in w ...
How Architecture Got Its Hump
Roger Connah
Paperback - $30.95
In "How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architec ...
Empire Building
Mark Crinson
Paperback - $120.95
The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are th ...
Living Gaudi : The Architect's Complete Vision
Maria Antonietta Crippa
Hardcover - $120.95
Antoni Gaudi is celebrated as one of the most important architects of the early 20th century. His unbelievable Art Nouveau buildings were marked by their whimsical design and fantastic details. While much has been written on this extraordinary figure ...
Traditions in Architecture : Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania
Dora P. Crouch
Paperback - $134.95
Traditions in Architecture introduces readers to the architectural achievements of diverse cultures outside the Euroamerican tradition. Unlike traditional chronological surveys of architectural history, this volume is arranged thematically. It is div ...