Books like Modern World Architecture by Jonathan Glancey


"An essential guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age. Introduces over 450 landmark projects, covering every pivotal movement and practitioner of the craft from the twentieth and twenty-first centures, including: Sir Edward Lutyens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Richard Rogers, Berthold Lubetkin, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Alvar Aalto, Norman Foster, Antoni Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh."-- Back cover.
First publish date: September 4, 2006
Authors: Jonathan Glancey
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