History - Contemporary (1945 -)
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Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
$45.00 Add to cartAlthough race–a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination–has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since th… [more below]
- Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
- Author: Cheng, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 082296659X
- Language: English
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Domus 1950-1959
$40.00 Add to cartFounded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor,
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 383659384X
- Language: English
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Piano. Complete Works 1966-Today. 2021 Edition
$100.00 Read moreRenzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that “turned the architecture world upside down.” Since t
- Author: Piano, Renzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 20 2021
- ISBN10: 3836577631
- Language: English
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Big. Yes Is More. an Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
$30.00 Add to cartYes is More is the easily accessible but unremittingly radical manifesto of Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG.Unlike a typical architectural monograph, this book uses
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 3836520109
- Language: English
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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
$65.00 Add to cartIn Yugoslavia’s “Third Way” architecture, Brutalism meets the fantastical
Squeezed between the two rival Cold War blocs, Yugoslav architecture consistently adhered to a modernist trajectory. As a found
- Author: Stierli, Martino
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1633450511
- Language: English
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Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home
$24.95 Read more“Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago’s twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and bui
- Author: Moroney, Siobhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 0252087623
- Language: English
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Contemporary Japanese Architecture
$80.00 Read moreThe contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than seven Japanese architects have won the
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 28 2021
- ISBN10: 3836575108
- Language: English
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Louis I. Kahn
$20.00 Read moreLouis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modern
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Rosa, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2016
- ISBN10: 3836543842
- Language: English
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Carbondale After Dark And Other Stories: Expanded Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFrom panty raids to riots, “Carbondale After Dark” is a profusely illustrated anthology of history, essays and short stories that chronicles how a sleepy little college town in the Midwest became a hi
- Author: Koplowitz, H. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0979139368
- Language: English
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From Bauhaus to Our House
$17.00 Add to cartAfter critiquing–and infuriating–the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429142
- Language: English
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Contemporary Japanese Architecture. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartJapan’s contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritz
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 09 2023
- ISBN10: 3836595729
- Language: English
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Zaha Hadid
$20.00 Add to cartZaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable. During the latte
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 17 2016
- ISBN10: 3836536358
- Language: English
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Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartZaha Hadid (1950 – 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 3836593491
- Language: English
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Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th E
$30.00 Add to cartElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Fr?d?ric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Chaubin, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3836587793
- Language: English
