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(H/B-25) ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20th CENTURY
"The must-have architecture manual" "A century of great buildings and their creators" This is the be-all-end-all reference work for architecture in the 20th century. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Antoni Gaudi to Frank O. Gehry to Shigeru Ban and all the best stuff in between, it's all here. The chronologically organized chapters put it all into perspective, illustrated by hundreds of large-format photos as well as a plenitude of drawings and floor plans. The biographical appendix covers all of the century's greatest architects, including toda...
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ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20th CENTURY
New aesthetic potential was released at the end of the eighteenth century in the wake of the Enlightenment. The natural sciences were declared a recognized means of explaining the world, and geometric axioms competed with anatomic rules of proportion. The definition of units of measurement based on natural constants was one of the products of the French Revolution; the metre became a valid unit of measurement when the standard metre, one forty-millionth of the earth's circumference, was stored in the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris on 2...
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TWENTIETH-CENTURY FURNITURE DESIGN
Designers of genius. Henry van de Velde, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Josef Hoffmann. Le Corbusier and Emile Jacques Ruhlmann. Charles Eames, Ettore Sottsass and Philippe Starck. At their hands furniture came into its own. The twentieth century transformed interiors into sets - and on those sets the creations of these designers played the star parts. This is a book about status symbols that express the character of their owners but, more than that, define the spirit of the age. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ...
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