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  • Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

    Edited by Rebecca Krinke ...
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  • Modern Architecture

    by Alan Colquhoun ...
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    This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English

    by Minae Mizumura ...
    Translated by Mari Yoshihara, Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding ... Read more

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  • Why Are We 'Artists'?

    100 World Art Manifestos

    by Jessica Lack ...
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    'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together political activists, anti-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Europe, Africa and Martinique to Japan's Bikyoto, from Iraqi ... Read more

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  • Architectural Styles

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    by Owen Hopkins ...
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  • The Story of Post-Modernism

    Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture

    by Charles Jencks ...
    In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of ... Read more

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    The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism

    by Herbert Bangs, M.Arch. ...
    An inspirational call for a return to the tenets of traditional architecture as a remedy for the dehumanizing standards of modern architecture• Explains how modern architecture is emblematic of our current estrangement from the spiritual principles that shaped humanity’s greatest civilizations• Reveals how the ancient laws of sacred proportion and harmony can be restoredThe ugly buildings that ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Architectural Theory

    1968 to the Present

    by Harry Francis Mallgrave, David J. Goodman ...
    A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.The first comprehensive and critical history of ... Read more

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