Harris (1903-1990) was the last surviving member of the second generation of the southern Californian school of architecture, and was heir to the ideals of Frank Lloyd Wright and others. Germany traces his life and career, assessing his place in American modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle that had admirers throughout the world. Includes color plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. (view table of contents)

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A compelling visual tour of mid-twentieth-century design introduces readers to the bold, trend-setting architecture of the 1940s and 1950s. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A new appreciation for the genius of architectural photographer Julius Shulman has opened the way for hundreds of abandoned masterworks to be rediscovered. The images burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of fifties and sixties design, were those widely published in magazines and books; but what about those that were not? The abandoned files of Julius Shulman show us another side of Modernism that has stayed quiet for many years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An updated and expanded edition of the hugely successful 1997 book American House Now, this richly illustrated volume showcases twenty-six of the most extraordinary examples of residential architecture designed in the United States in the last twenty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a comprehensive view of the firm's design process and the resulting built environments.

Product Description: From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design...read more

Traces the evolution of American architecture from the late nineteenth century to the present day, arguing that America's unique blend of cultures, sensibilities, and aspirations has shaped architectural development and examining how changes in style, from early skyscrapers, to Art Deco in the 1920s, to today's modernist trends, reflect the social and political issues of their time. Original.

Mies van der Rohe in einem Glas- und Stahlbau stehend und eine Zigarre rauchend - den Autor ließ dieses enigmatische historische Foto des weltberühmten Architekten nicht zur Ruhe kommen. Die vorliegende Publikation ist das Resultat seiner akribischen Recherchen. Der Leser folgt dieser kriminalistischen Spurensuche, die systema-tisch architektonische und gestische Details deutet und miteinander verknüpft, mit wachsender Spannung. Ricardo Dazas "Beweismaterial": interessante Elemente aus Mies' Biografie sowie eine faszinierende Illustrationssequenz mit vielen Trouvaillen. Ein witziges, freches und doch engagiertes Buch, das auf spielerische Weise ein präzises Bild entwirft von Mies van der Rohes komplexer Persönlichkeit und der Essenz seiner Architektur.

Members of the “animal welfare science community”, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more “sentimental” account given by animal liberationists. This strategy has been used to argue for merely limited reform in the use of animals. This strategy was initially employed as a way of “sympathetically” responding to the abolitionist claims of anti-vivisectionists, who objected to the use of animals in research. It was subsequently used by farm animal scientists. The primarily reformist (as opposed to abolitionist) goals of this community make the false assumption that there are conditions under which animals may be raised and slaughtered for food or used as models in scientific research that are ethically acceptable. The tendency of the animal welfare science community is to accept this assumption as their framework of inquiry, and thus to discount certain practices as harmful to the interests of the animals that they affect. For example, animal welfare is conceptualized is such a way that death does not count as harmful to the interests of animal, nor prolonged life a benefit.