Product Description: The most influential ideas that have shaped architecture are chronicled in this concise history. The book analyzes basic building components and the inception of architecture, historical movements that track its evolution, innovative materials such as steel and reinforced concrete, technical innovations, and modern movements...read more

Product Description: A new edition, fully illustrated in color, of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. It remains as stimulating and challenging today as it was then. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers; the work of the 19th-century engineers; and Art Nouveau...read more

Product Description: Fragments of Wilderness City reviews the work of renowned architect Brian Avery. Avery Associates Architects have worked in close collaboration with a diverse range of clients, including universities, commercial developers, government organisations, and charitable trusts...read more

Product Description: Fully updated, here is the classic comprehensive pocket guide to global architectural styles throughout history, from the first civilizations to today.Organized chronologically, The Complete Architecture Handbook covers all established historical styles and explores regional developments throughout the centuries...read more

Product Description: Since its foundation in 1987, Bennetts Associates has won numerous awards for its work and has established itself in the UK as one of the leading architecture practices of its generation. This is the first book to examine the firm's ethos and the themes behind its buildings...read more

Product Description: The design and organization of the house have been sources of endless experimentation and innovation for modern architects, a means to try out new theories, styles, forms and materials. Twentieth Century Residential Architecture gives a detailed, comprehensive treatment of the history of the modern house, covering all the key examples together with many others that are less well-known but equally important...read more

Product Description: After a century largely dominated by discussions of space and form, there is now renewed interest in the material and tectonic aspects of architecture. This richly illustrated and handsomely designed book takes a detailed and timely look at the importance of materials in architecture, focusing particularly on modern and contemporary buildings...read more

Product Description: Offering a comprehensive cultural history of the modern house, this book includes both the famous and lesser known important architectural examples of the period. This guide is arranged topically to tell the story of the evolution of modern domestic architecture from the Arts and Crafts period to the present day, including chapters on the home as a work of art, the home as a machine, and more...read more

Product Description: Villa Mairea is one of the finest houses of the twentieth century. For those familiar with it from only a few images, this book is a revelation. Alvar Aalto used his knowledge of vernacular building, Classicism and Modernism to create a building that is at once humane, rich and lyrical...read more

Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century - Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism - and concludes with the 'post-modernist' experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the 'tradition of the new' became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German Modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had begun as a cluster of loosely related artistic movements scattered across Europe emerged as the dominant style of the twentieth century. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings. This work deals with the Saynatsalo Town Hall, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details.

Product Description: One of the finest houses of the twentieth century. For those familiar with it only from a few images, this book is a revelation. Aalto used his knowledge of vernacular building, Classicism and Modernism to create a building that is humane, rich and lyrical.