Light, Air and Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars [1 ed.] 0500342423, 9780500342428

This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s and that er

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Light, Air and Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars [1 ed.]
0500342423, 9780500342428

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects Modern Architecture and Climate explores how lead

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Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies in

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Looks at Louis Kahn's buildings including the Exeter Library and the Salk Institute as well as examining his impact

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"Diplomacy Between the Wars" is a detailed inside story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five remarkab

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At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the Wes

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"The extraordinary range of architecture [presented by Millet] coupled with the author's lucid presentation of

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"The extraordinary range of architecture [presented by Millet] coupled with the author's lucid presentation of

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pages 583-586 missing (?). - Highly esteemed by architects and New York history enthusiasts, 'New York 1930' f

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