A manufactured wilderness : summer camps and the shaping of American youth, 1890-1960 / Abigail A. Van Slyck. by Van Slyck, Abigail Ayres

Table of Contents: “…: girls, boys, and camp cleanliness -- Living like savages : tipis, council rings, and playing Indian -- Epilogue: Summer camps, modern architecture, and modern life.…”
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Projecting Urbanity : architecture for and against the city / David Leatherbarrow. by Leatherbarrow, David

Processor Description Languages Mishra, Prabhat. by Mishra, Prabhat, Dutt, Nikil

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Alvar Aalto : the complete catalogue of architecture, design and art / Göran Schildt. by Schildt, Göran, 1917-2009

The minimum dwelling = L'habitation minimum = Die Kleinstwohnung : the housing crisis, housing reform ... / Karel Teige ; translated and introduced by Eric Dluhosch. by Teige, Karel, 1900-1951

Table of Contents: “…Introductory remarks : toward a dialectic of architecture and a sociology of dwelling -- The housing crisis -- The international housing shortage -- Modern architecture and housing in Czechoslovakia -- The face of the contemporary city -- Dwelling and household in the nineteenth century -- The evolution of dwelling types and contemporary housing reform -- Model settlements and housing exhibitions -- The modern apartment and the modern house -- The minimum dwelling -- Low-, medium-, or high-rise houses? …”
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Simple building / by Sidney Magee. by Magee, Sidney, 1939-

Art Deco / Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl. by Charles, Victoria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Exhibition programme; Architecture, Painted and Sculpted Decor; "Modern" architecture: new materials, new shapes; The French section; Foreign sections; Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Spain; Great Britain; Greece; Italy; Japan; The Netherlands; Poland; Sweden; Czechoslovakia; Russia; Furniture and Furniture Sets; Contemporary developments and trends; French section; Presentation of the French section; Ordinary home furnishings; Provincial participation; Colonial art; Foreign sections; Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Spain; Great Britain; Italy; Japan; The Netherlands; Poland.…”
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Risk and Meaning Adversaries in Art, Science and Philosophy / by Nicolas Bouleau. by Bouleau, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…The Third Dimension of Risk -- VII. ''Modern" Architecture -- VIII. The Ideal City -- IX. Daring the Abstract in Art -- X. …”
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Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloody-Mindedness. Concrete Poetry with Jonathan Meades / BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Table of Contents: “…Modern Architecture Revival…”
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Photographic architecture in the twentieth century / Claire Zimmerman. by Zimmerman, Claire, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond Visibility : Modern Architecture in the Photographic Image -- I. Architecture after Photography -- 1. …”
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The story of post-modernism : five decades of the ironic, iconic and critical in architecture / Charles Jencks. by Jencks, Charles

Ordonnance for the five kinds of columns after the method of the ancients / Claude Perrault ; introduction by Alberto Pérez-Gómez ; translation by Indra Kagis McEwen. by Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- Ordonnance and the Architectural Orders -- The Dimensions Regulating the Proportions of the Orders -- The General Proportions of the Three Main Parts of Entire Columns -- The Height of Entablatures -- The Length of Columns -- The Height of Entire Pedestals -- The Proportions of the Parts of Pedestals -- The Diminution and Enlargement of Columns -- The Projection of the Base of Columns -- The Projection of the Base and Cornice of Pedestals -- The Projection of the Cornice of Entablatures -- The Proportions of Capitals -- The Proportions of the Astragal and the Lip of the Column Shaft -- The Tuscan Order -- The Doric Order -- The Ionic Order -- The Corinthian Order -- The Composite Order -- Pilasters -- Abuses in the Alteration of Proportions -- Some Other Abuses Introduced into Modern Architecture.…”
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Nurturing dreams : collected essays on architecture and the city / Fumihiko Maki ; edited by Mark Mulligan ; foreword by Eduard Sekler. by Maki, Fumihiko, 1928-2024

Table of Contents: “…Formative years -- Collective form: a preface -- Investigations in collective form -- Time and landscape: collective form at Hillside Terrace -- City and modernism -- My city: the acquisition of mental landscapes -- America: highways, detached houses, and skyscrapers -- The drawing called Brasília -- Notes on urban space -- Space, territory, and perception -- Reflections on Harvard's 1956 urban design conference -- The Japanese city and inner space -- The Kaze-no-Oka crematorium -- The Le Corbusier syndrome: on the development of modern architecture in Japan -- Making architecture in Japan -- Togo Murano -- Stillness and plenitude: the architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi -- On the industrial vernacular -- The roof at Fujisawa -- On universality -- Architectural modernity and the consciousness called the present.…”
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Carlo Scarpa Arts Council of England.

Table of Contents: “…Carlo Scarpa Combines Classic and Modern Architecture (4:31) -- Carlo Scarpa: Architectural Materials (2:53) -- Carlo Scarpa: Work with Craftsmen (3:16) -- Carlo Scarpa: Colors, Materials and Design Ideas (1:50) -- Carlo Scarpa: Work as a Glass Designer (1:11) -- Carlo Scarpa: Love of Architecture and Innovative Design (2:00) -- Carlo Scarpa: Bureaucracy in Venice for Architects (3:17) -- Carlo Scarpa Remodels Palazzo Abatellis (5:25) -- Carlo Scarpa Remodels Catelvecchio (6:09) -- Exhibits in Castelvecchio (1:01) -- Carlo Scarpa: Design Process and Viewing Art (2:59) -- Castelvecchio's History Revealed in Scarpa's Remodel (5:01) -- Castelvecchio Remodel: More Design Elements and Paintings (2:42) -- Canova Gallery: Skylights Create Illuminating Rooms (4:40) -- Brion Memorial Creation (5:08) -- Water Features at Brion Memorial (21:42) -- Carlo Scarpa's Death (2:01)…”
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Overdrive : L.A. constructs the future, 1940-1990 / edited by Wim de Wit and Christopher James Alexander.

Table of Contents: “…Cody -- Latin America and Los Angeles: Architectural Exchanges / Hugo Segawa and Fernando Atique -- Preserving Modern Architecture in Los Angeles / Susan Macdonald -- DEVELOPING COMMUNITES: -- Suburban Landscapes of Los Angeles / Becky Nicolaides -- Domestic Speculation: Architects and Builders in Postwar Los Angeles / Dana Cuff -- Experimental Jet Set: Aerospace and the Modern House in Los Angeles / Dana Hutt -- ENGINEERED AUDACITY: -- LAX: Designing for the Jet Age / Vanessa R. …”

Aesthetic capitalism / edited by Peter Murphy and Eduardo de la Fuente.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6 The Social Negotiation of Aesthetics and Organisational DemocracyChapter 7 Neo-Modernism: Architecture in the Age of Aesthetic Capitalism; Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Fiscal Consolidation; Chapter 9 The Innovative Role of Art in the Time of the Absence of Myth; Index.…”
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Architecture, from prehistory to postmodernity / Marvin Trachtenberg, Isabelle Hyman. by Trachtenberg, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…The Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 12. Modern Architecture -- Ch. 13. Second Modernism (through Post-Modernism) -- Ch. 14. …”

Birth of the cool : California art, design, and culture at midcentury / Elizabeth Armstrong ; with essays by Michael Boyd [and others] ; with contributions by Anna Brouwer, Mary Tr... by Armstrong, Elizabeth, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Dennis Szakacs -- Acknowledgments -- The square and the cool : California art, design, and culture at midcentury / Elizabeth Armstrong -- Domestic cool : modern architecture and its image in southern California / Elizabeth A.T. …”

The Oyler House : Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat.

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The new modern house : redefining functionalism / Jonathan Bell & Ellie Stathaki. by Bell, Jonathan, 1972-