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Building the City Beautiful
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154
Making a Modern Classic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Making a Modern Classic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Architecture, art, art history and city politics come together in this lively account of the evolution of the building that houses the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Archival photographs and excellent new color photos are coupled with the text to document this historic structure.The story starts with the decades of planning and construction preceding the its 1928 opening. Closure is reached with renovations and reinstallation projects of the 1990s.

The Barnes Foundation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

The Barnes Foundation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A brief architectural history of the two buildings of the Barnes Foundation: the original one designed by Paul Cret and built at Merion, PA, between 1922 and 1925, and the one designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, to which the Barnes moved in 2012.

The Law Courts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

The Law Courts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

This is the first book devoted exclusively to Street and his greatest work, the Royal Law Courts in the Strand. George Edmund Street (1824-1881) was a leader of the High Victorian generation of British architects. A prolific and innovative artist, he also played an important role in the reshaping of architectural taste that occurred in England at mid century. This is the first book devoted exclusively to Street and his greatest work, the Royal Law Courts in the Strand. In The Law Courts, David Brownlee makes extensive use of the vast archives of the Public Record Office to document a monument that embodies both the professional controversies surrounding architectural theory and the personal ...

Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe

Friedrich Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the nineteenth century. His planning for the city of Karlsruhe—and his design of every imaginable type of structure, including palaces, churches, synagogue, government buildings, city gates, shops, fountains, theaters, armories, cemetery buildings and farms—is a remarkable achievement. This collection includes treatment of Weinbrenner's contributions to agricultural architecture. Based on new rationalist models that were greatly influenced by the scientific movement in the mideighteenth century.

Building America's First University
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Building America's First University

"More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice

Louis I. Kahn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Louis I. Kahn

The Museum of Contemporary Art

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
  • Language: en

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Barnes Foundation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 80

The Barnes Foundation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Out of the Ordinary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Out of the Ordinary

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