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  • Michigan Modern

    Design that Shaped America

    Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage.The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s ... Leer más

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    What Happens After They're Built

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  • Fallingwater Rising

    Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

    Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the ... Leer más

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  • How Architecture Works

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    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Leer más

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  • Makeshift Metropolis

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  • Dream Cities

    Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

    de Wade Graham ...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    Series Libro 7 - Critical Lives
    The life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) have been much-studied, yet there is a consistent division between analyses of his architecture, which exclude any discussion of his daily life, and books that tell the often sensational tale of his life, with barely a passing reference to the buildings themselves. The result is that, despite the large number of volumes on Wright, the ... Leer más

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  • The Design of Childhood

    How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays

    **From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**"[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now." -The Los Angeles Review of BooksFrom building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of the ways children's playthings and surroundings affect their development-now featuring the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays.Parent... ... Leer más

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  • Building Art

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    **A finalist for the National Book Critic's Circle Award."smoothly written and fair-minded" —Wall Street JournalA biography of architect Philip Johnson** and how he helped shape modern architecture through bold vision, cultural influence, and iconic design, from Pulitzer Prize winning author Mark Lamster.When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable ... Leer más

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  • Museum Legs

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    If you've ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I'll do something else ... If you've ever arrived at one and left a little glazed and confused ... If you've ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a whole book ... Then this is your story. Museum Legs -- taken from a term for art fatigue -- starts with a question: Why do people get bored ... Leer más

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  • The Moderns

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    In The Moderns, we meet the men and women who invented and shaped Midcentury Modern graphic design in America. The book is made up of generously illustrated profiles, many based on interviews, of more than 60 designers whose magazine, book, and record covers; advertisements and package designs; posters; and other projects created the visual aesthetics of postwar modernity. Some were émigrés from ... Leer más

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