History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
$27.00 Add to cartA remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick.
By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year f- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Quam, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0226828107
- Language: English
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Le Corbusier: Le Grand
$59.95 Add to cartBack in print, the spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects
‘Le Corbusier arguably had more of an influence on the
- Author: Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1837291012
- Language: English
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Architreasures: A Journey Through 20th-Century Architecture
$59.99 Add to cartArchitreasures will take you on a road trip through 20th-century architecture–from neon-lit art deco theaters and Route 66 motels to futuristic modernist banks, Googie gas stations, and brutalist uto… [more below]
- Author: Goddard, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764369725
- Language: English
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Art Nouveau: The Architecture of Modern Life
$49.95 Add to cartThe first global survey of Art Nouveau architecture, including examples from cities historically left out of the canon such as Helsinki, Ljubljana and Riga
This is the first book to expand the scope of
- Author: Greenhalgh, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1911736183
- Language: English
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La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel
$160.00 Read moreDiscover Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s vacation villa on the French Riviera, where she entertained the leading lights of the French cultural scene in the 1930s and ’40s.
In 1928, Gabrielle Chanel built La- Author: Texidor, Montse Aguer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 2080454927
- Language: English
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Jamestown: Architecture, Landscape, and the Making of a Rhode Island Paradise
$44.95 Add to cartA highly visual and new study of the rustic and whimsical shingled houses of Jamestown, Rhode Island from the colonial era to the development of the town as a picturesque report set in a coastal lands… [more below]
- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1913875709
- Language: English
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American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana
$75.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on one of the foremost modernist cities and architecture destinations in the USA: Columbus, Indiana
The midwestern city of Columbus, Indiana, is more than a mecca of modern architec
- Author: Shaw, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936121
- Language: English
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Midcentury Houses Today
$60.00 Add to cartTraces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today
This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury
- Author: Ross, Cristina A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936105
- Language: English
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The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture
$21.95 Add to cart“Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance.” — John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to T… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Ware, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486283100
- Language: English
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Architecture in the 20th Century
$116.67 Add to cartFrom Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank O. Gehry to Antoni Gaud?, Shigeru Ban and all the best in between, this essential guide celebrates 100 years of the finest architecture. Large-format photos, drawings… [more below]
- Author: Leuthäuser, Gabriele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 3836570904
- Language: English
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Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism
$65.00 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism
In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers- Author: Hunting, Mary Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0691206694
- Language: English
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
$93.33 Add to cartIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusi
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3836572826
- Language: English
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The Empire State Building
$25.95 Add to cartThe Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the build
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479398
- Language: English
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The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture
$75.00 Read moreThe comprehensive story of an icon of modern architecture: the Edith Farnsworth House, designed by Mies van der Rohe
One of the most famous residences in modern history, a glass and steel marvel that
- Author: Sabatino, Michelangelo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936199
- Language: English
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The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
$38.00 Read moreBetween 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Architecture and Urbanism
- Author: Schrenk, Lisa D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022631894X
- Language: English
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1000 Turn-Of-The-Century Houses: With Illustrations and Floor Plans
$24.95 Read moreA remarkable presentation of the “finished ideas of a practicing architect of high rank in his profession,” this early-twentieth-century showcase of homes features a wide range of designs from a Midwe… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Chivers, Herbert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0486455963
- Language: English
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The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970
$50.00 Read moreA revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness
“[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement of- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300238894
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture Since 1900
$59.95 Add to cartSince its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis
- Author: Curtis, William J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0714833568
- Language: English
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Sears Modern Homes, 1913
$19.95 Read moreFor thousands of Americans, catalogs such as Sears’ Modern Homes were the first step in realizing their dreams of owning a home. Reproduced from a rare 1913 edition, this volume features 112 designs f… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0486452646
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
$50.95 Add to cartDuring the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose me
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820319287
- Language: English
