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Product Description: A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism. ove all, he achieved a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture and its surrounding landscape, and it is such contributions that have made him recognized as Sweden's leading architect of the twentieth century...read more

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9780714839769 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, September 1, 2005, cover price $75.00

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9780714863153 | Reprint edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, January 23, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition, vernacular architecture and Modernism.

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9780773517042 | 2 sub edition (McGill Queens Univ Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $110.00

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9780773517752 | 2 edition (McGill Queens Univ Pr, February 1, 1999), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: 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 Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building types during the Century of Revolutions...read more

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9780415076647 | Routledge, August 1, 1993, cover price $245.00 | About this edition: 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 Revolution.

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9780415076654, titled "Buildings & Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types" | Routledge, August 1, 1993, cover price $113.95 | About this edition: 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 Revolution.

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9780500203958 | 4th edition (Thames & Hudson, September 30, 2007), cover price $24.95
9780500202579 | 3 sub edition (Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1992), cover price $21.95

Product Description: Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence...read more

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9780262200615, titled "The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970's" | Mit Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Offers a survey of avant-garde architecture, looks at the work of Stirling, Rossi, Gregotti, Venturi, Eisenman, Graves, Hejuk, Argest, and Gandelsonas, and discusses futurism and expressionism

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9780262700399 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence.

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