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The Experience of Modernism

Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53

By John R. Gold

Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1928-1953, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-419-20740-5 (Taylor & Francis)

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Structure and Style

Conserving Twentieth-Century Buildings

Edited by Michael Stratton

This book provides the first study of approaches to appraising and conserving mainstream architecture of the twentieth century - commercial buildings, industrial buildings and housing.…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-419-21740-4 (Taylor & Francis)

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Empire Building

Orientalism and Victorian Architecture

By Mark Crinson

The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-13941-0 (Routledge)

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The Modern Steel House

By Neil Jackson

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Modern Movement houses constructed with steel frames. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it traces the development over the last…

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1996 | Hardback: 978-0-419-21720-6 (Taylor & Francis)

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Le Corbusier - The Creative Search

The Formative Years of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

By Geoffrey H. Baker

This book is a unique analysis and explanation of Le Corbusier's early education, his travels in Europe and the East, his buildings and his Purist…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-419-17730-2 (Taylor & Francis)

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Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition

By Malcolm Quantrill

This is a unique and comprehensive study of the entire span of Finnish architecture in the 20th century. Using comparative critical analysis, the author weaves…

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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-419-19520-7 (Taylor & Francis)

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Buildings and Power

Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types

By Thomas A. Markus

The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial…

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1993 | Paperback: 978-0-415-07665-4 (Routledge)

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