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Reading Architectural History

By Dana Arnold

Architectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25050-4 (Routledge)

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This is Not Architecture

Media Constructions

Edited by Kester Rattenbury

This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23180-0 (Routledge)

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Brazil Built

The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil

By Zilah Quezado Deckker

Brazil Built is an examination of the architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s, Brazil acquired unprecedented prestige in the…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23178-7 (Taylor & Francis)

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German Architecture for a Mass Audience

By Kathleen James-Chakraborty

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23654-6 (Routledge)

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Modern City Revisited

Edited by Thomas Deckker

The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-419-25640-3 (Taylor & Francis)

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Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology

By Michael Stratton, Barrie Trinder

This book examines the industrial monuments of twentieth- century Britain. Each chapter takes a specific theme and examines it in the context of the buildings…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-419-24680-0 (Taylor & Francis)

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Fashioning Vienna

Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

By Janet Stewart

This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22177-1 (Routledge)

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The Architecture of Oppression

The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

By Paul B. Jaskot

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17366-7 (Routledge)

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Architecture and Revolution

Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by Neil Leach

Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. The book presents a series of…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13915-1 (Routledge)

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Modern Movement Heritage

Edited by Allen Cunningham

This collection of essays serves as an introduction to modern architectural heritage and the specific problems related to the conservation of modern structures. It…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-419-23230-8 (Taylor & Francis)

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