The Color of Modernism. Paints, Pigments, and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

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

The first comprehensive study of the German-born architect and designer Jock Peters (1889-1934), whose elegantly modern interiors for Bullock's Wil...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Haym SoloveitchikNumber of pages: 144Collection: The Littman Library of Jewish CivilizationPublicat...

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This bo...

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Explores how housing design came to occupy the center of the modernist project in Germany. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Isa...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

In this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe’s history: its transformation from war-tor...

Reducere. In 1933, architect William B. Wiener collaborated with his half-brother Samuel G. Wiener to design a weekend home for his family on the shore of Cr...

Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Dr. Penelope CurtisIllustration(s): 8 colour, 60 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2006Dimens...

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

Publisher: Apartamento Publishing S.L.vPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 250 x 292 x 26Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Nacho AlegreRedescopera farme...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

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DescriptionMoscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period...

Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what m...

A comprehensive overview on the architecture of Hong Kong's transformative period featuring more than 300 buildings, with detailed background infor...

"Combining the clarity and accessibility of a textbook with in-depth reading and a critical approach, Key Modern Architects provides an invaluable ...

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Reducere. Description"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."--Th...

The world's best buildings created from 1950 to the present, dissected and analysed through specially commissioned freehand drawings.Illustrations:...

This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from fol...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tristram HuntNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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DescriptionThis significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a "parallel modernism" that was visually similar to Euroamerican modern...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Kevin D. MurphyEditor: Lisa ReillyOf all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not ...

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How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studiesReconstructions: Architecture and Blacknes...

This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favourites.

The book examines Spanish conquest and early colonialism from the vantage point of the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco, one of the most important c...