Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century. Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Paperback - Robert (University of Michigan) Fishman

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the c...

Reducere. Le Corbusier gave to modern design a sure and brilliant sense of form; Mies brought an almost Gothic discipline of structure; and Wright heralded a...

Reducere. Ebenezer Howard's iconic "Garden Cities of To-Morrow, " published in 1902, spawned an international movement for the creation of Garden Cities in t...

From 1940 to 1970, mid-Michigan had an extensive legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such a...

Provides a prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of...

Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as...

The story of crippling overdevelopment in Mexico's economic and social centerPublisher: Temple University Press, U.S.Author(s): Diane DavisNumber o...

Reducere. An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it...

From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright's designs can be found ...

Reducere. The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Ma...

Reducere. Neil Levine's study of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, beginning with his work in Oak Park in the late 1880s and culminating in the constru...

Reducere. Garden Cities of To-morrow Ebenezer Howard Garden Cities of To-morrow is a book by the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard. When it was published...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

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Reducere. In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as ar...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Daniel (Independent Practitioner, USA) E. SnyderIllustration(s): 70 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publ...

His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most famous ho...

Tells the story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. This title traces the cultural preconceptions and i...

Reducere. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no...

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

Presents an overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed description...

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Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory ...

Reducere. The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and chi...

Reducere. Frank Lloyd Wright confronted us with two challenges when he wrote of his buildings that certain "basic principles behind the effects" "give to the...

Reducere. Generally acknowledged as America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright not only designed buildings, but furniture, textiles, and stained glass ...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Medieval theological ideas had an important influence on later philosophy. This book explores the legacy of these ideas and shows how key figures i...

Reducere. Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philoso...

From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why a...

Reducere. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works--among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fall...

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