History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Killing Vincent: The Man, The Myth, and The Murder
$19.95 Add to cartOn July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh came stumbling into his room in the Ravoux Inn, in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, bleeding from a wound in his abdomen. Thirty hours later, Vincent was dead. THe common my
- Author: Arenberg, Irving Kaufman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0578496488
- Language: English
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Modernist Escapes: An Architectural Travel Guide
$40.00 Read moreThis sleek and insightful guide showcases modernist buildings from all over the world that are open to visit or even stay at.
Modernist fans will want to dive right into the pages of this guide to rem
- Author: Orazi, Stefi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 3791386344
- Language: English
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Schindler
$20.00 Add to cartHailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angele
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Steele, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 16 2019
- ISBN10: 383656436X
- Language: English
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Domus 1928-1939
$40.00 Read moreOffering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the “living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major themes
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 3836594455
- Language: English
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Art Deco Tulsa
$21.99 Add to cartTransformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation’s most talented architects, including Bru… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Wallis, Suzanne Fitzgerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859899
- Language: English
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GaudÃ
$20.00 Read moreFrom the towering Sagrada Fam?lia to the shimmering, textured fa?ade of Casa Batll? and the enchanting landscape of Park G?ell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaud? (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Crippa, Maria Antonietta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560283
- Language: English
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Koolhaas/Obrist. Project Japan. Metabolism Talks
$70.00 Add to cart“Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs… then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of ap
- Author: Obrist, Hans Ulrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 15 2011
- ISBN10: 3836525089
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it’s hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expen… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Sharr, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198783442
- Language: English
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Architecture and Abstraction
$34.95 Add to cartA landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms.
In this theoretical study of abstraction in architec- Series: Writing Architecture
- Author: Aureli, Pier Vittorio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545233
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture A-Z
$25.00 Read moreWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A-Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: August 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836556316
- Language: English
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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
$39.95 Add to cartThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Amaza Le- Author: Taylor, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048345
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture A-Z
$100.00 Read moreExplore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti’s colored geometries to Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements… [more below]
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 18 2022
- ISBN10: 383658316X
- Language: English
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Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces
$20.00 Read moreA dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted–and their immense impact on America
As the nation recovered from a
- Author: Howard, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162312
- Language: English
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Case Study Houses. the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966
$100.00 Add to cartThe Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles a
- Author: Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 3836510219
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind
$49.95 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual a
- Author: Rahmani, Ayad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179809
- Language: English
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Academia: Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States
$49.95 Add to cartThe Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America’s relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fa
- Author: Morgan, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214687
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin: How America’s Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State
$24.95 Read moreAmerica’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York Cit
- Author: Hansen, Kristine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493069144
- Language: English
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Bauhaus
$20.00 Read moreIn a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school develope
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560143
- Language: English
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
$25.00 Add to cartIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusi
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: January 04 2019
- ISBN10: 3836565544
- Language: English
