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A comprehensive exhibition catalog that explores Swiss architect Mario Botta’s modern and post‑modern works, including church, museum, and domestic buildings, with designs, plans, and critical analysis.

Architecture: Residential Drawing and Design provides the basic information necessary for planning various types of dwellings. It presents basic instruction in preparing architectural working drawings using traditional as well as computer-based methods. Further, the text is designed to serve as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. It is intended to help develop the necessary technical skills to communicate architectural ideas in an understandable, efficient, and accurate manner. - Introduction.

Modern Architecture/1 and 2 document the incredible diversity and change that have taken place in architectural and urban design during the past one hundred years. The informative text offers an in-depth analysis of societal forces shaping the landscape of modern architecture throughout Europe and the United States. Volume 1 covers issues ranging from urbanism and town planning at the turn of the century through the work of design groups such as the Deutsche Werkbund and individuals such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright to nationalistic and totalitarian architecture in Italy and Germany prior to and during the Second World War. Volume 2 traces concepts of urbanism and building theories after World War II through the 1970s, following the work of architects such as Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto as well as the younger generation of practitioners of international reputation and influence. Also includes information on Amsterdam (Holland), Barcelona (Spain), Basel (Switzerland), Peter Behrens, Berlin (Germany), Boston (Massachusetts), Brussels (Belgium), Cambridge (Massachusetts), Celle (Germany), Chandigarh (India), Chicago (Illinois), Como (Italy), Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), constructivism, Detroit (Michigan), Dusseldorf (Germany), Florence (Italy), Frankfurt (Germany). Futurism, Geneva (Switzerland), Genoa (Italy), Walter Gropius, The Hague, Helsinki (Finland), Hilversum (Holland), international style, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Leningrad (USSR), London (England), Adolf Loos, Los Angeles (California), Lyons (France), Madison (Wisconsin), Madrid (Spain), Erich Mendesohn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Milan (Italy), Moscow (USSR), neo-classicism, neo-expressionism, neo-empiricism, neo-gothic, neo-plasticism, neo-Romanesque, neo-Romantic, Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity), New Haven (Connecticut), New York City (New York), Oak Park (Illinois), Paris (France), Pasadena (California), Auguste Perret, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Hans Poelzig, Prague (Czechoslovakia), Prairie School, Racine (Wisconsin), Henry Hobson Richardson, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Rome (Italy), Rotterdam (Holland), Eliel Saarinen, St. Louis (Missouri), San Francisco (California), Stockholm (Sweden), Stuttgart (Germany), Bruno Taut, Heinrich Tessenow, Tokyo (Japan), Turin (Italy), Venice (Italy), Martin Wagner, Otto Wagner, Weimar Repulbic, Frank Lloyd Wright, Zurich (Switzerland).

Discover iconic American twentieth-century residential architecture in this illustrated edition of 'American Masterworks' by Kenneth Frampton.

Since his stunning Institut du Monde Arabe opened in Paris in 1987, French architect Jean Nouvel has designed buildings throughout Europe that share a personal vision which highlights an urban and architectural awareness, a fluidity of form and approach, and a sensitivity to context and function. Based on the primary architectural elements that inform Nouvel's work - light, color, grid, and detail - this book presents over twenty-five buildings, competition entries, and furniture design projects seen by Jean Nouvel as the clearest representations of his design philosophy. From new work, such as the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland, and the Cite Justiciaire in Nantes, France, to contemporary classics, including the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the unbuilt Tour Sans Fins, each building is presented in detail, with drawings and beautiful photographs. Project descriptions by the author and commentary by Nouvel are complemented by a general discussion of Nouvel's career, his architectural purpose, and his future vision, to provide a complete portrait of the work of one of the most creative and challenging architects in the world today.