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An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an importa...

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Born Charles-douard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (18871965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ideas, designs, and writings presented a whole-scale...

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Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative—an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars. Between 1927 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While...

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The first major retrospective to emerge from the archive of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, shining important new light on his work One of the most acclaimed architects working in Brazil since the mid-twentieth century, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (19282021) beg...

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The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and New York. Origin...

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In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusiers prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-deca...

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The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions th...

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The highly acclaimed history of the architecture of the twentieth century and beyond - now in paperback Jean-Louis Cohen, one of the world's leading architectural historians, serves up a compelling account of the developments that have shaped the ...

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A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier - one of the twentieth century's most influential architects A decade after its first publication, the bestselling monograph Le Corbusier Le Grand is finally available in a new pa...

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The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago, Detroit, Montreal and New York. Origin...

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The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions th...

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"Above Paris" is Henrard's remarkable study of the urban landscape of Paris and its best-known monuments. Over 350 beautifully printed duotones, systematically grouped by themes such as the course of the Seine, the main roads, the statio...

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The most thoroughgoing survey of nearly all of Le Corbusier's extant projects, beautifully photographed and authoritatively detailed. Le Corbusier is widely acknowledged as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. As extensive...

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An authoritative compendium on the main masterpieces of Frank Gehry, including 480 illustrations and photographs, produced in collaboration with Cahiers d'Art.

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The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and...

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This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that d...

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Confronter les codes et les ecoles artistiques entre la France et l'Italie en matiere d'urbanismeDans cet ouvrage initialement publie en 1984 et rapidement devenu introuvable, Jean-Louis Cohen analyse un moment-cle pour la theorie et la pratique d...

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Inaugurating a landmark publication project on the drawings of one of America's greatest architects

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The 2018 Cahiers d'Art revue revisits Miró's works and relationship between Miró and Cahiers d'Art through an anthology of the most beautiful texts published in the revue. It also introduces unpublished objects and pieces from the artist's collect...

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This second volume of Gehry's catalogue raisonné of drawings gives us a comprehensive view of the work that defines one of the most expressive architects of our time. In an industry where the final product is reliant on many hands and machines, Ge...

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture. For architects and many others who are committed to the modernist tradition, he is a pivotal figure. With in-depth, scholarly essays and opulent photographs...

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the leading figures of twentieth-century architecture. For architects and many others who are committed to the modernist tradition, he is a pivotal figure. With in-depth, scholarly essays and opulent photographs...

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe gehorte zu den fuhrenden Personlichkeiten in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist fur Architekten und viele andere, die sich der Tradition der Moderne verpflichtet haben, eine Schlusselfigur. Mit wissenschaftlich f...

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Die 1945 zu weiten Teilen zerstoerte Stadt Mainz wollten die franzoesischen Besatzer unmittelbar nach Kriegsende zu einem franzoesisch gepragten Mayence aufbauen. Fur diese Aufgabe wurde Marcel Lods berufen, Verfechter einer funktionalistischen Mo...

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Ende des 19. und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelten sich die Grossstadte in Deutschland und Frankreich sehr verschieden. Auf der einen Seite stand das tausendjahrige Paris, nach seinem radikalen Umbau die unbestrittene Kulturhauptstadt der W...

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Der als Charles-Édouard Jeanneret geborene Le Corbusier (1887-1965) gilt gemeinhin als der einflussreichste Architekt des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ob Privatvilla oder sozialer Wohnungsbau: Mit seinen radikalen Ideen, Entwürfen und Schriften ging es ihm n...

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