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  • Legendary Homes of Lake Minnetonka by Hammel, Bette
    Bette Hammel

    Legendary Homes of Lake Minnetonka

    A stunningly photographed volume that invites readers inside thirty historic and architecturally significant homes on beautiful Lake Minnetonka.Author: Bette HammelISBN-10: 0873517229ISBN-13: 9780873517225Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2009Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.16lbsSize: 9.38h x 12.20w x 0.94d
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  • 100 Turn-Of-The-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans by Manson
    Rogers & Manson

    100 Turn-Of-The-Century Brick Bungalows with Floor Plans

    Reprinted from rare 1912 catalog, this book presents 100 winning entries from a nationwide competition for brick bungalow designs. Superb renderings show houses in perspective, floor plans, some landscape planning - even a budget.Author: Rogers & Manson, Manson, Rogers &. MansonISBN-10: 0486281191ISBN-13: 9780486281193Publisher: Dover...
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  • Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations [With CDROM] by Davies, Colin
    Colin Davies

    Key Houses of the Twentieth Century: Plans, Sections and Elevations [With CDROM]

    It provides accurate scale plans of every floor, together with elevations, sections, and site plans where appropriate, for each house. All have been specially drawn for the purpose and are based on the most up-to-date information and sources. Amplified with full-color views of the...
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  • Shipping Container Homes: The Ultimate Guide on How to Build Your DIY Shipping Container Home Exactly the Way You Want It. Including the Buildin by Grant Hanson
    Grant Hanson

    Shipping Container Homes: The Ultimate Guide on How to Build Your DIY Shipping Container Home Exactly the Way You Want It. Including the Buildin

    Would you like to stop PAYING RENT every month and NEVER HAVE ANYTHING YOURS?Are you worried you will have to spend your life-giving money to the banks, never finding yourself with something stable and just to be more serene?Would you like to have YOUR...
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  • How to Build a Sauna Handbook: Step By Step Instructions On Everything You Need To Know About Sauna Building and Its Construction by Publishers, Professional Hydrotherapy Bo
    Professional Hydrotherapy Bo Publishers

    How to Build a Sauna Handbook: Step By Step Instructions On Everything You Need To Know About Sauna Building and Its Construction

    Enjoy Building a New Sauna With The Latest 2020 Guide. Looking to build a sauna?Here's the problem, with so many books and guides out there, it's very difficult to tell which source to choose from.What makes this problem worse, is that so many guides...
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  • Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China by Li, Shiqiao
    Shiqiao Li

    Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China

    Neither derivatives of Western cities norisolated from them, Chinese cities in the past four decades are perhaps bestcaptured in their characteristic complexity through a concept in biologicalevolution: drift. Unlike mutation, adaptation, and migration, drift ofphenotypes takes place when chance events terminate some features and...
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  • Vertical Living: Compact Architecture for Urban Spaces by Gestalten
    Gestalten

    Vertical Living: Compact Architecture for Urban Spaces

    Mass urbanization. Population growth. All happening faster than we can build for. As global populations are projected to shift to 80-90% urban in the next 30 years, architects are faced with a growing challenge: how to accommodate all this growth in limited space? At...
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  • The Home Upgrade by Gestalten
    Gestalten

    The Home Upgrade

    Against a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings must continue to evolve along with us--and that takes a little imagination. Societal shifts continue to impact our homes. People...
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  • Jean Prouvé 5 Volume Box Set by Prouvé, Jean
    Jean Prouvé

    Jean Prouvé 5 Volume Box Set

    Compiling all five of Galerie Patrick Seguin's volumes on the "demontable" architecture of Jean ProuvéThis limited-edition boxed set compiles all five of Galerie Patrick Seguin's volumes on the "demontable" architecture of Jean Prouvé the revised editions of 6x6 and 8x8, plus three new monographs...
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  • New Houses in Asia: Inspired Architecture and Interiors for the Modern World by The Images Publishing Group
    The Images Publishing Group

    New Houses in Asia: Inspired Architecture and Interiors for the Modern World

    Richly illustrated with full-color photographs of award-winning houses from across the Asia region, from Japan to Singapore, and Vietnam to Malaysia Each project describes details of how challenges such as typhoons, heat, humidity or snow were successfully dealt with Includes more than 30 modern...
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  • Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters by Goble, Paul
    Paul Goble

    Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters

    Award-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than...
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  • At Home in Maine: Houses Designed to Fit the Land by Glass, Christopher
    Christopher Glass

    At Home in Maine: Houses Designed to Fit the Land

    Just what is the quintessential Maine house? A traditional Cape nestled into a hillside meadow? A classic lake ront cottage? A restored Victorian in a quaint village? Architect Chris Glass and photographer Brian Vanden Brink make a compelling and visually fascinating argument that the...
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  • Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House by Kaufmann, Edgar
    Edgar Kaufmann

    Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House

    Fallingwater is the most famous modern house in America. Indeed, readers of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects voted it the best American building of the last 125 years! Annually, more than 128,000 visitors seek out Fallingwater in its remote mountain site...
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  • Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Romance with Nature by Waggoner, Lynda S.
    Lynda Waggoner

    Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright's Romance with Nature

    Frank Lloyd Wright was once asked if he went to church. He responded that his church was Nature with a capital N. A reverence for nature permeated Wright's work from the beginning. The sun, trees, stones, and water were elements of the natural world...
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  • The Senior Cohousing Handbook - 2nd Edition: A Community Approach to Independent Living by Durrett, Charles
    Charles Durrett

    The Senior Cohousing Handbook - 2nd Edition: A Community Approach to Independent Living

    How to make your senior years healthy, safe, social, and stimulating. "Architect and author Chuck Durrett's recently released book Senior Cohousing Handbook comes at a time of high interest in greening, sustainable housing and affordable living concerns. Durrett's new book is a comprehensive guide...
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  • Exceptional Treehouses by Laurens, Alain
    Alain Laurens

    Exceptional Treehouses

    In Exceptional Treehouses, author and treehouse builder Alain Laurens reveals 30 gorgeous treehouse structures, 25 of which are entirely new creations, all illustrated with Daniel Dufour's beautiful watercolors as well as photographs by Jacques Delacroix, commissioned specially for this book.As in his first book,...
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  • Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt by Fathy, Hassan
    Hassan Fathy

    Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt

    Author: Hassan FathyISBN-10: 0226239160ISBN-13: 9780226239163Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2000Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.10h x 5.43w x 0.80d
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  • Elias Rizo Arquitectos by Montaner, Josep Maria
    Josep Maria Montaner

    Elias Rizo Arquitectos

    Exemplary residential and public buildings from the acclaimed Guadalajara firmElias Rizo Arquitectos is an architecture studio based in Guadalajara, Mexico, regularly featured in DesignBoom, Arch Daily and elsewhere. Primarily known for its residential buildings, the office develops projects of various scales, ranging from houses,...
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  • Shipping Container Homes: A Complete Guide to Building a Container Home and Tiny House Living by Johnson, Peter
    Peter Johnson

    Shipping Container Homes: A Complete Guide to Building a Container Home and Tiny House Living

    SHIPPING CONTAINER HOMESA shipping container home is a more affordable option for home ownership, as you can build a new construction for far less than it costs to build a conventional home. They require fewer materials to build, and the materials are often much...
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  • A House in a Week: Prefab Houses by Zamora, Francesc
    Francesc Zamora

    A House in a Week: Prefab Houses

    As the need for affordable, eco-friendly housing continues to rise, so does the bar for attractive, easy-to-construct designs from today's architects. In A House in a Week: Prefab Houses we've gathered the most innovative and thoughtfully planned homes, prefabricated to perfection. From a desert...
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  • John S. Chase-The Chase Residence by Heymann, David
    David Heymann

    John S. Chase-The Chase Residence

    The low-slung brick home that architect John Saunders Chase completed for his own family in 1959 was Houston's first modernist house with a true interior courtyard, a form with which other progressive architects were only starting to experiment. It was equally radical that he...
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  • Johannes Kip, The Gloucestershire Engravings by Jones, Anthea
    Anthea Jones

    Johannes Kip, The Gloucestershire Engravings

    Three hundred years ago, in 1721, the 'Dutch engraver' Johannes Kip (or John Kip, his anglicised name) dropped down dead in St John's Street, Westminster, bringing to a sudden end his career in England of more than thirty years as a renowned printmaker. Gloucestershire...
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  • Dwelling Models of Umayyad Madāʾin and Quṣūr in Greater Syria by Labisi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Labisi

    Dwelling Models of Umayyad Madāʾin and Quṣūr in Greater Syria

    This book is the first systematic collection and discussion of dwellings in the Umayyad 'cities' (madāʾin) and 'palaces' (quṣūr) of Bilād al-Shām. Giuseppe Labisi offers an overview of the apartments within and identifies the architectural models that inspired Umayyad dwellings. This study also allows...
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  • Residences Reimagined: Successful Renovation and Expansion of Old Homes by Pierazzi, Francesco
    Francesco Pierazzi

    Residences Reimagined: Successful Renovation and Expansion of Old Homes

    Forms an important and useful reference for architects, interior designers, and home owners Richly illustrated with 27 case studies from around the globe Provides detailed analysis of the process undergone in each case study Includes helpful before and after pictures An inspiring guide showcasing...
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  • The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble by Hackshaw, Bridget
    Bridget Hackshaw

    The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble

    A beautiful and important book about the remarkable collaboration between the modernist architect James Hackshaw (a member of the famous Group Architects), the painter Colin McCahon, and the then young sculptor Paul Dibble on twelve New Zealand buildings--from churches to houses. Drawing on interviews...
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  • Foundations: Houses by Jlf Architects by Jlf Design Build
    Jlf Design Build

    Foundations: Houses by Jlf Architects

    Breathtaking houses that are built lovingly with noble materials and heritage methods, always presented in profound conversation with nature. JLF Architects, based in Bozeman, Montana, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, believe first and foremost that architecture should be rooted in its particular place, responding in...
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  • Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa by Peres, Edna
    Edna Peres

    Creating Coromandel: Marco Zanuso in South Africa

    Creating Coromandel explores the decade-long partnership between architect and designer Marco Zanuso and the South African fashion retailer Sydney Arnold Press and Press's wife Victoria de Luria Press, whose shared passion for design spurred them to create Coromandel - part building, part ruin, part...
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  • Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico by Carranza, Luis E.
    Luis E. Carranza

    Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico

    Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s. It carefully re-reads the central texts and projects of its main advocates to show how their theories responded to the socially...
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  • Independent for Life: Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America by Cisneros, Henry
    Henry Cisneros

    Independent for Life: Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America

    Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people...
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  • Once upon a time: The Stories of a Loyal House by Westland, R. C.
    R. C. Westland

    Once upon a time: The Stories of a Loyal House

    John Crafford, who emigrated from Scotland in 1753 to find a better future in America, fled the life he had built for himself and his family in Massachusetts to start all over again thirty years later. He was one of some fifty thousand New...
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  • 150 Best All New House Ideas by Zamora, Francesc
    Francesc Zamora

    150 Best All New House Ideas

    From the highly successful 150 Best series, the ultimate resource for single home buyers and owners, architects, developers, and designers, filled with contemporary, fresh ideas for sustainable construction and gorgeous interiors, vividly captured in hundreds of stunning four-color photographs.150 Best All New House Ideas...
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  • Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints by Friedman, Avi
    Avi Friedman

    Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints

    A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small...
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  • The California House: Adobe. Craftsman. Victorian. Spanish Colonial Revival by Masson, Kathryn
    Kathryn Masson

    The California House: Adobe. Craftsman. Victorian. Spanish Colonial Revival

    The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the "golden state," that land of infinite promise and dreams, the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes...
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  • New Orleans and Its Environs: The Domestic Architecture, 1727-1870 by Ricciuti, Italo William
    Italo William Ricciuti

    New Orleans and Its Environs: The Domestic Architecture, 1727-1870

    New Orleans was a melting pot of Spanish and French culture, in a climate that forced a uniquely American architecture. More than 260 images present the wide verandahs, hipped and gabled roofs, neo-classical sensibilities, and lavish iron lacework that give this region its unique...
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  • American Country Houses of the Gilded Age: (Sheldon's Artistic Country-Seats) by Lewis, A.
    A. Lewis

    American Country Houses of the Gilded Age: (Sheldon's Artistic Country-Seats)

    The "Gilded Age," the three decades following the Civil War, were years of astounding economic growth. Vast empires in oil, shipping, mining, banking, lumber, transportation, and related industries were formed. It was an era in which fortunes were made and lost quickly, almost easily;...
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  • Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Morse, Edward S.
    Edward S. Morse

    Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings

    This work deals with every aspect of the traditional Japanese home, from its general plan and major structural features to such ceremonial and traditional appointments as the tatami mats (which actually determine the size of the house), lamps, hibachi (braziers), fusuma and shoji screens,...
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  • The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age by Violette, Zachary J.
    Zachary J. Violette

    The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age

    Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban AmericaAs the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms...
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  • Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels by Wong, Marie Rose
    Marie Rose Wong

    Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels

    Marie Rose Wong peers through the lens of single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels to capture the 157-year origin story of Seattle's pan-Asian International District. This gorgeous, meticulous book layers together interviews, maps, and insights from over a decade of primary research to provide an urgent...
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  • Little House in the City: Living Small Within City Limits by Vassallo, Marc
    Marc Vassallo

    Little House in the City: Living Small Within City Limits

    A change is taking place all across the country and especially on the West Coast, a shift led by the younger generations. People who in years past might have headed for the suburbs are instead moving to the city or choosing not to leave....
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  • Shipping Container Homes: A Comprehensive Guide to Shipping Container Homes by Brown, Matt
    Matt Brown

    Shipping Container Homes: A Comprehensive Guide to Shipping Container Homes

    Turn Your Dream of Living in a Shipping Container Home Into Reality Shipping container houses are contemporary and eco-friendly. They are a fantastic alternative to traditional home construction and can save you money and time. Homes constructed from shipping containers are a trend that...
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  • Building In Paradise: An Architect's Journey From Sketches To Skeletons by Hirsch, William
    William Hirsch

    Building In Paradise: An Architect's Journey From Sketches To Skeletons

    FOLLOW ALONG AS AN ARCHITECT NAVIGATES A HAWAIIAN HOMEBUILDING PROJECT THROUGH A LABYRINTH OF OBSTACLES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND APPARITIONS.Hawaii is a magical, mystical place. Enormous mountains reach into the clouds. Volcanoes spew molten lava. Huge waves roll in from the vast, blue Pacific Ocean. Palm...
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  • Kay Fisker: Danish Functionalism and Block-Based Housing by Clancy, Andrew
    Andrew Clancy

    Kay Fisker: Danish Functionalism and Block-Based Housing

    This is the first book on the architecture of Kay Fisker (1893-1965), a leading exponent of Danish Functionalism. Influenced by Louis Sullivan, Fisker had a strong belief in continuity, putting modernism in perspective, and identifying precedents. He built many large scale housing schemes, mostly...
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  • The Edwardians and Their Houses: The New Life of Old England by Brittain-Catlin, Timothy
    Timothy Brittain-Catlin

    The Edwardians and Their Houses: The New Life of Old England

    Edwardian domestic architecture was beautiful and varied in style, and was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative and provided new building types for weekends, sport, and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes...
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  • Container & Prefab Homes: Eco-Friendly Architecture by Martínez, Patricia
    Patricia Mart?ez

    Container & Prefab Homes: Eco-Friendly Architecture

    Prefabricated architecture is becoming an important trend in the world of contemporary design. Modularity allows for greater design flexibility and makes homes more affordable, while architectural projects made with recycled loading containers are becoming increasingly popular--and increasingly necessary given the need for more sustainable...
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  • The New Eco House: Structure & Ideas by Minguet, Anna
    Anna Minguet

    The New Eco House: Structure & Ideas

    This book explains this new direction in architecture, so that in a few decades what may now seem extraordinary will be commonplace. It is a method to build or renovate close to what may eventually be known as bioconstruction--a building system with recycled or...
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  • Juan O'Gorman: Casa O'Gorman 1929 by O'Goman, Juan
    Juan O'Goman

    Juan O'Gorman: Casa O'Gorman 1929

    Mexican architect and painter Juan O'Gorman (1905-82) had a spectacular debut as an architect, designing his own house at the age of 24. On the strength of this building, Diego Rivera commissioned O'Gorman to design a pair of studio-houses for himself and Frida Kahlo...
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  • Houses and Gardens of Kyoto: Revised with a New Foreword by Matthew Stavros by Daniell, Thomas
    Thomas Daniell

    Houses and Gardens of Kyoto: Revised with a New Foreword by Matthew Stavros

    Houses and Gardens of Kyoto presents over 500 photos of the most excellent examples of traditional Japanese architecture from every significant historical period in this new edition of a favorite classic. Kyoto, considered the quintessential birthplace of Japanese culture, has survived centuries of damage...
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  • Prefabricated Housing: Construction and Design Manual by Meuser, Philipp
    Philipp Meuser

    Prefabricated Housing: Construction and Design Manual

    Prefabricated housing has long since ceased to mean the disfigurement of the urban landscape with monotonous grey boxes. Particularly in Central Europe and Russia, modern assembly methods and 100 years of experience in planning prefabricated buildings and constructing with large panels are experiencing a...
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  • Holidays After the Fall: Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia by Zinganel, Michael
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    Holidays After the Fall: Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia

    Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourist hotspots. Holidays after the Fall traces the various architectural and urban-planning strategies pursued in these countries since the mid-1950s. It portrays late-modern tourist architecture and resorts of...
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  • Richard Neutra: The Story of the Berlin Houses 1920-1924 by Neutra, Richard
    Richard Neutra

    Richard Neutra: The Story of the Berlin Houses 1920-1924

    "Richard Neutra in Berlin traces his success back to the Zehlendorf housing project of 1923 where he defined his strong and experimental modernist style." -WallpaperMention of the name Richard Neutra conjures the light-flooded bungalows that characterize the architectural style of the West Coast around...
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