ISBN:
9781590172278
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1590172272
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9781590176887
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159017688X
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9781681373027
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1681373025
Language:
English
Pages:
3 volumes
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illustrations (some color)
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22 cm
Series Statement:
New York Review Collection
Parallel Title:
Online version Filler, Martin, 1948- Makers of modern architecture
Parallel Title:
Online version Filler, Martin, 1948- Makers of modern architecture
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Architekt
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Architecture, Modern / 20th century
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Architects / 20th century / Biography
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Architecture / 20e siècle
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Architecture, Modern
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1900-1999
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Biography
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Biography
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Architekt
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Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
"Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Martin Filler offers insights into this unprecedented cultural transformation. From Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper, to Frank Gehry, magician of the post-millennial museum, Filler emphasizes how their force of personality has had a decisive effect on everything from how we inhabit our homes to how we shape our cities." "Surveying such current urban design sagas as the reconstruction of Ground Zero and the reunification of Berlin, Filler also trains his sharp eye on some of the biggest names in architecture today, puncturing more than one overinflated reputation while identifying the true masters who are now building for the ages."--Jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
[V. 1.] Louis Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Le Corbusier -- Alvar Aalto -- Charles and Ray Eames -- Louis Kahn -- Philip Johnson -- Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- Frank Gehry -- Richard Meier -- Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti -- Norman Foster -- Renzo Piano -- Daniel Libeskind, David Childs -- Santiago Calatrava --
Description / Table of Contents:
V. 2. Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Le Corbusier -- The Bauhaus --- Ernst May and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky -- Oscar Niemeyer -- Edward Durell Stone -- Eero Saarinen -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Carlo Scarpa -- James Stirling -- Renzo Piano -- Rem Koolhaas -- Bernard Tschumi -- Tod Williams and Billie Tsien -- Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa -- Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro -- Snøhetta -- Michael Arad --
Description / Table of Contents:
V. 3. Frederick Law Olmsted -- Antoni Gaudí -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte -- Edwin Lutyens -- Jan Duiker -- Albert Speer, Gerdy Troost -- The Levitt Brothers -- The New Brutalists -- Louis Kahn -- Paul Rudolph -- Minoru Yamasaki -- Lina Bo Bardi -- Frei Otto -- Frank Gehry -- Renzo Piano -- David Childs, Santiago Calatrava -- Christian de Portzamparc, Rafael Viñoly, Alexander Gorlin -- Maya Lin
Note:
Subtitle for v. 1 from book jacket: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry. Subtitle for v. 2 from book jacket: From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas. Subtitle for v. 3 from book jacket: From Anotoni Gaudi to Maya Lin
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"A New York Review collection"--Jacket
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