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1	Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Richard Weston (Introduction by) One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of ... see all copies from $6.81! new only from $9.99! \| SVS
2	Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner Moving from William Morris to Walter Gropius, taking in artists and architects from Britain, Europe and the USA, the author shows how the foundation of the best that remains today was laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed. First published in 1936 and twice revised since then, this survey explores a period of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.72! \| first editions
3	American House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions more books like this by Susan Doubilet, Daralice Boles This heavily illustrated volume showcases some of the most extraordinary examples of American houses completed within the last ten years, examining in particular the meanings of the abstract forms prevalent in architecture today. Extended captions and an introduction to each house accompany spectacular drawings, photos, and floor plans. 200 color ... see all copies from $2.28! new only from $2.49! \| first editions
4	Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive more books like this by David G de Long (Editor), C Ford Peatross (Editor) A unique team in the history of architecture, Eero Saarinen was an architect who challenged the conventions of his time while Balthazar Korab was an architect in his office whose photographs reveal the brilliance of Saarinen's work.This sourcebook illustrates nineteen Saarinen commissions in photographs drawn from Korab's archive, providing ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $60.00! \| SVS
5	Fifties Furniture: With Price Guide more books like this by Leslie A Pina, Leslie A Piina see all copies from $12.92! new only from $24.99!
6	Domesticity at War more books like this by Beatriz Colomina 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," Beatriz Colomina shows how postwar American architecture adapted the techniques and materials that ... see all copies from $22.45! new only from $22.45! \| SVS
7	Harwell Hamilton Harris more books like this by Lisa Germany, Bruno Zevi (Illustrator), Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by) Lisa Germany's biography of Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) details the work of an architect who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. Harris was a sculptor who changed careers when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House and realized that an architect could make sculpture on a monumental scale that both ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
8	Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of the Japanese Modernist Architecture more books like this by Jonathan M Reynolds Japanese architecture's commanding presence on the world stage can be traced to the struggles of earlier generations of Japan's modernist architects. This first book-length study of Maekawa Kunio (1905-1986) focuses on one of the most distinctive leaders in Japan's modernist architectural community. In a career spanning the 1930s to the 1980s, ... see all copies from $7.24! new only from $10.40! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Preservation of Modern Architecture more books like this by Theodore H M Prudon As Modern architecture ages to a point that preservation is necessary, the methods and technology used in preservation have to be carefully considered to maintain the design integrity of the building. This book will be a guide for the professional architect that is interested in a broad background in preservation as a field as well as specific ... see all copies from $59.40! new only from $59.40! \| SVS
10	de Stijl and Dutch Modernism more books like this by Michael White The name De Stijl, the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917, is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. De Stijl achieved international acclaim by the end of the 1920s and its paintings, buildings and furniture made ... see all copies from $30.82! new only from $51.66!
11 view cover	Building the New World: Modern Architecture in Latin America more books like this by Valerie Fraser Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ...cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the past century. The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public their modernising intentions. This book ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $4.49! \| SVS
12 view cover	Principles of Modern Architecture more books like this by Christian Norberg-Schulz A clear, concise, accessible, copiously illustrated account by one of the world's leading architectural critics of what the Modern Movement really wanted and what it achieved. Christian Norberg-Schulz explains the basic tenets of the new architecture that came into being around the turn of the last century, a timely explanation in view of the many ... see all copies from $15.61! new only from $28.73! \| first editions
13 view cover	Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings more books like this by Isabelle Hyman During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential and varied body of work. This is a comprehensive study of his oeuvre, looking at both Breuer's built and unbuilt work. He was a master of concrete technology and produced hundreds of ... see all copies from $32.84! new only from $39.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Practice of Modernism: Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954-1972 more books like this by John Gold In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book "The Experience of Modernism" (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design. Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex ... see all copies from $45.75! new only from $45.75!
15 view cover	The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard more books like this by Anthony Alofsin Considering how modernism evolved in the most celebrated design school in America, this work traces developments at Harvard, whose Graduate School of Design was the home of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius from 1937 to 1952. It argues that America had initiated its own modern agenda well before the arrival of the European modernist ideology. see all copies from $7.34! new only from $12.00! \| SVS
16 view cover	Mies Van Der Rohe more books like this by Aurora Cuito (Editor) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who emigrated to the US in 1938, was one of the foremost architects of the 20th century. His work includes the German pavillion for the International Exhibition at Barcelona, for which he designed his famous Barcelona chair and the steel and glass Seagram Building in New York, built with Philip Johnson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions
17 view cover	British Modern: Architecture and Design in the 1930s more books like this by Susannah Charlton (Editor), Elain Harwood (Editor), Alan Powers (Editor) see all copies from $14.13! new only from $14.13! \| SVS
18 view cover	Tropical Modernism more books like this by James Grayson Trulove Tropical Modernism will be a beautiful, lavishly illustrated book detailing the modernist influence on residential architecture and gardens in the tropics. Over thirty projects from Fiji to San Juan, from Brazil to India will be presented in full colour, complete with floor plans and landscape designs. Residential architecture has seen a strong ... see all copies from $4.45! new only from $23.67! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture more books like this by Sanford Kwinter In this text, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of 20th-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.84! \| SVS
20 view cover	Surrealism and Architecture more books like this by Thomas Mical This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design. This book represents current insights into surrealism in the thought and practice of modern architecture. In ... see all copies from $50.34! new only from $50.34! \| SVS
21 view cover	de La Warr Pavilion: The Modernist Masterpiece more books like this by Alastair Fairley, Richard Rogers (Foreword by) - The first major book ever to be published on the De La Warr Pavilion, the Modern Movement masterpiece hailed by ICOMOS (the International Council on Museums and Sites), adviser to UNESCO on World Heritage sites, as one of the treasures of twentieth-century British architecture - Stunningly illustrated throughout with more than 200 archival ... see all copies from $14.18! new only from $14.93! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture more books like this by Sylvia Lavin This book tells us how modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious.Sylvia Lavin's "Form Follows Libido" argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin ... see all copies from $13.05! new only from $13.05! \| SVS
23 view cover	Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacific Northwest more books like this by Sheri Olson, Sherri Olson A new architectural style emerges when similarities of form, material, interest, or attitude in the designs of a group of architects become prevalent enough to earn their own identity. Such is the recently heralded rise of the Pacific Northwest school, best represented by the work of David Miller and Robert Hull. Miller/Hull's energy-conscious ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $18.16! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Looking for Mies more books like this by Ricardo Daza A historical photograph shows a room in a steel and glass building and a man which is evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe. Only the name of the photographer is known. In a manner more usually found in detective novels, the author considers the evidence given in the photograph, making deductions and gradually revealing in which room the ... see all copies from $27.20! new only from $29.84!
25 view cover	Marketing Modernisms: The Architecture and Influence of Charles Reilly more books like this by Peter Richmond Architect, teacher, journalist, town planner and cultural entrepreneur, Sir Charles Reilly was a leading figure of the early-20th-century British architectural scene. This book takes an in-depth look at Reilly's career. Charles Reilly trained several generations of students in the Liverpool School of Architecture, many of whom later became ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $22.28! \| first editions

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