One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography—so good at representing a building’s lines and planes—a necessary way to promote their practices. It soon became apparent, however,
New, updated small format gift edition. The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition, after which each nation seemed to adapt its own distinct architectural style. Less florid t
In the final years of the nineteenth century, Toronto architects started to consider how their city, through progressive architecture and urban planning, could be made "modern." Making Toronto Modern
Architecture is the consummation of ontological reasoning. The birthright of the Cuban architecture can only be found by traveling through its Islamic origins syncretically modified in Andalusia, Spai
In the mid-1880s The Builder, an influential British architectural journal, published an article characterizing Renaissance architecture as a corrupt bastardization of the classical architecture of Gr
The Social Project unearths three decades of architectural and social experiments centered on the dwelling environment as it became an object of modernization, an everyday site of citizen participatio
Explores the focus on sustainability and the evaluation of the modern movement as they are shaping contemporary architecture, surveying 25 example ways in which straightforward approaches to modernist
Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecturea€?s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to an economic abyss that many perceive to be the de
1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gav
1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gav
Andrew Geller was known as the architect of happiness and it's easy to see why. Sporting names like The Box Kite, The Bra, and The Reclining Picasso, his whimsical vacation homes of the 1950s and 1960
Louis Kahn' National Assembly building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is regarded by many as his greatest masterpiece and one of the wonders of modern architecture.The octagonal main Parliament
The contemporary architecture of Qatar includes some of the world’s most innovative commissions built in the past twenty years. This is the most comprehensive publication on the stunning new archite
Few architectural firms were more important or influential in postwar Austria than Werkgruppe Graz. The four principals?Eugen Gross, Friedrich Gross-Rannsbach, Herman Pichler, and Wenrer Hollomey?bega
This is the first book to address architecture and her wider relations in art. Though many scholarly works have examined these ideas, not one study has brought together architecture and its wider repr
Manhattan Atmospheres uncovers an alternative environmental history of New York, examining the megastructural apartments, verdant corporate atria, enormous trading rooms, and mammoth museum galleries
"From the same team that produced the monumental five-volume architectural history of New York comes the definitive work on the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that first emerged in Eng
The Master of Modern. Discoveries from the Julius Shulman vaults The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of ’50s and ’60s architectural design, were those whose pict
