In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of mode......more

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In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of mode......more

New York Rising is an illustrated history of real estate development in Manhattan, a story of speculation and innovation......more

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Now available in an expanded and revised edition, this book contains an outstanding collection of photographs by the ren......more

More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health ......more

Germany 1918-33 was one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Following the Russian Revolution, German workers and ......more

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The twentieth century was the most destructive in human history, but from its vast landscapes of ruins was born a new ar......more

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In ......more

The Iconic House features over one hundred of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. W......more

An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago’s pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic desi......more

Published in a new edition, this book offers an introduction to Bauhaus, one of the most influential movements in modern......more

In 1924, while serving as director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) built his first private house in the archi......more

Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architec......more

Ancestry of the American Abney and related families from the 10th century to the present. Includes history of UK, USA, C......more

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an innovator.He is undoubtedly one of Scotland s most celebrated architects. His astoundin......more

An original guide to New York City’s celebrated Art Deco architecture, this two-sided map, including photographs and det......more

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The New York Times Book Review: Alexiou guides us through this checkered history with gusto. Kevin Baker, author of Th......more

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As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre sp......more

.. . an effervescent cocktail of a read: one part biography to two parts social history, topped off with a splash of sca......more

The fire horse brings up stories of heroism and the love the firemen had for them. If you love great stories from the ho......more

This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the ......more

Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant arch......more

Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant arch......more

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This book complements the more textually-based Bauhaus scholarship with a practice-oriented and creative interpretive me......more

The first book to focus on Monet s work through his representation of architecture In an innovative approach, Richard Th......more

A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the......more

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Form precedes function in this stunning visual archive of nearly 200 images of modern architecture by award-winning phot......more

Transformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The M......more

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Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon an......more

The style and mythology of Mid-Century Modern California architecture as seen through the expert lens of Marvin Rand Los......more

Victorian pumping stations are colorful cathedrals of utility. Their imposing and striking exteriors enclose highly deco......more

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe s Barcelona Pavilion ......more

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A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States What is the o......more

MCM - Milano Capital of the Modern, edited by Lorenzo Degli Esposti, is made up of texts and images from over 300 contri......more

First translation into English on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the General Theory of Urba......more

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Otto Wagner (1841-1918) is one of the most significant figures of turn-of-the-century architecture. He was associated wi......more

Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investi......more

Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investi......more

Due to its location in the western North Atlantic some 600 miles off the Carolinas and halfway between Halifax in Canada......more

This work is an annotated translation of Mirza Sangin Beg’s Sair-ul Manazil which is one of the last works on Delhi writ......more

At the height of the Gilded Age, America s wealthiest families began to cluster in Newport, Southampton, Bar Harbor, and......more

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Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked fema......more

Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked fema......more

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Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable kn......more

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This intriguing book examines how material objects of the 20th century--ranging from articles of clothing to tools and w......more

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This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European migr designers to twentieth-century American......more

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The author takes you into the forgotten history of the Seabeck area. Discover information about Crosby, Hite’s Center, H......more

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For over two hundred years after the Act of Uniformity (1559) outward observance of the Roman Catholic faith was illegal......more

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output a......more

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This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as th......more

Throughout the nineteenth century, Paris underwent profound transformations that reached every part of the city. Georges......more