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1	Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture more books like this by Alan Hess add to wishlist The book that helped spark the retro craze for fifties architecture and introduced the term googie to the world is back! First published by Chronicle in 1986, this key survey of mid-century coffee shop and commercial architecture is still the standard work on the subject Googie Redux is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the classic and ... see all copies from $5.55! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Harwell Hamilton Harris more books like this by Lisa Germany, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword by), Bruno Zevi (Introduction by) add to wishlist This biography details the work of architect Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. It traces the development of his life and career, assessing his place in American modernism. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
3	Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius more books like this by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner add to wishlist This is a book on artists and architects from Britain, USA and Europe and how the best remains today where laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.13! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Mies Van Der Rohe more books like this by Aurora Cuito (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $5.99! \| first editions
5	Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings more books like this by Isabelle Hyman add to wishlist 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 $40.00! new only from $49.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Oxford History of Art more books like this by Alan Colquhoun add to wishlist This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters ... see all copies from $14.82! new only from $16.80! \| SVS
7	de La Warr Pavilion: The Modernist Masterpiece more books like this by Alastair Fairley, Richard Rogers (Foreword by) add to wishlist - 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 $12.95! new only from $14.14! \| SVS
8	Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff more books like this by Dean Sakamoto (Editor), Karla Britton (Editor), Diana Murphy (Editor) add to wishlist At the forefront of the postwar phenomenon known as tropical modernism, Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998) won recognition as the 'master of Hawaiian architecture'. Although he practised at a time of rapid growth and social change in Hawaii, Ossipoff criticized large-scale development and advocated environmentally sensitive designs, developing a ... see all copies from $35.25! new only from $58.92! \| first editions
9	Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism more books like this by Anthony Vidler add to wishlist This book looks at how the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism - Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri - advanced specific versions of modernism.Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In ... see all copies from $17.16! new only from $17.49! \| SVS
10	La Maison de Verre more books like this by Dominique Vellay, Francois Halard (Photographer) add to wishlist "The Maison de Verre", a rarely seen modernist masterpiece, is the most celebrated work of French architect and designer Pierre Chareau. Dominique Vellay, the granddaughter of the original client, tells here for the first time the story of her grandmother's relationship with the architect and this extraordinarily inventive house. Francois Halard ... see all copies from $38.25! new only from $38.25! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	American House Now: Contemporary Architectural Directions more books like this by Susan Doubilet, Daralice Boles add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of the Japanese Modernist Architecture more books like this by Jonathan M Reynolds add to wishlist 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 $5.69! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Minimum Dwelling more books like this by Karel Teige, Eric Dluhosch (Translator) add to wishlist Karel Teige (1900-1951), one of the most important figures of avant-garde modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, influenced virtually every area of art, design, and urban thinking in his native Czechoslovakia. His "Minimum Dwelling", originally published in Czech in 1932, and appearing now English, is one of the landmark architectural books of the 20th ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $17.08! \| first editions
14 view cover	Marketing Modernisms: The Architecture and Influence of Charles Reilly more books like this by Peter Richmond add to wishlist 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 $14.98! new only from $21.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive more books like this by David G de Long (Editor), C Ford Peatross (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $38.32! new only from $58.88! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Josef Frank: Life and Work more books like this by Christopher Long add to wishlist Architect, designer and theorist Josef Frank (1885-1967) was known throughout Europe in the 1920s as one of the continent's leading modernists. Yet despite his tremendous contributions to the development of modernism, Frank has been largely excluded from histories of the movement. This is the first English-language study that comprehensively ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $60.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture more books like this by Sylvia Lavin add to wishlist 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 $13.31! new only from $13.31!
18 view cover	Building the New World: Modern Architecture in Latin America more books like this by Valerie Fraser add to wishlist Valerie Fraser examines the modernist architecture of Latin America--including such cities as Brasilia--emphasizing the opportunity it provided for architects and calculating its effect on the people living in it. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $14.40! \| SVS
19 view cover	Erno Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect more books like this by Nigel Warburton add to wishlist This is the first biography of Ern/ Goldfinger (1902-1987), the leading modernist architect in Britain in the twentieth century. It is the fascinating story of a man and his struggle to build in a modern style in Britain in the face of contemporary opposition. Today, opposition to his buildings, particularly Trellick Tower, is turning to ... see all copies from $31.33! new only from $31.33!
20 view cover	Miller/Hull: Architects of the Pacific Northwest more books like this by Sheri Olson, Sherri Olson, D Miller (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 $18.26! new only from $22.75! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Tropical Modernism more books like this by James Grayson Trulove add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture more books like this by Sanford Kwinter add to wishlist 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 $13.25! new only from $14.41! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard more books like this by Anthony Alofsin add to wishlist STRUGGLE FOR MODERNISM offers up the history of the Modernist movement in American architecture as it grew from the campus at Harvard University under the direction of Walter Gropius, former director of the Bauhaus. Alofsin traces how the study of building design evolved from a "luxury" into an impacting artistic medium that helped shape the ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $12.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	Looking for Mies more books like this by Ricardo Daza add to wishlist The famous photograph of Mies van der Rohe in a steel and glass building smoking a cigar has fascinated and intrigued the author to such an extent, that he has painstakingly researched the events surrounding its taking. This text intends to reveal the man behind the architecture. see all copies from $11.89! new only from $29.84!
25 view cover	Towards Universality: Le Corbusier, Mies and de Stijl more books like this by Richard Padovan add to wishlist There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. This one is different, however, in a number of ways. First, it does not treat them as separate subjects, but in relation to each other. While their response to De Stijl throws some new light on Le Corbusier and Mies, it is above all De Stijl that can be more ... see all copies from $48.95! new only from $48.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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