This is a book on artists and architects from Britain, USA and Europe and how the best remains today where laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed.
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“[An] excellent and now classic introduction to modern design and twentieth-century modernism. . . .”—Christopher Menz, Australian Book Review
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Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of the history of modern design, first published in 1936, is a classic text that offers an unrivalled account of the roots of Modernism. This new edition offers beautiful new illustrations, biographies of all major figures, a critique of Pevsner’s analysis from today’s perspective, and much more.
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"ORNAMENTATION," SAYS RUSKIN, "is the principal part of architecture." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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William Morris, First World War, New York, Red House, Frank Lloyd Wright, United States, Middle Ages, Great Exhibition, Norman Shaw, Glasgow School of Art, Industrial Revolution, Bedford Park, Louis Sullivan, Owen Jones, Walter Gropius, Century Guild, Les Vingt, Walter Crane, Adolf Loos, Cranston Tearoom, Doves Press, Industrial City, Josef Hoffmann, Lord Palmerston, Otto Wagner New!
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William Morris, First World War, New York, Red House, Frank Lloyd Wright, United States, Middle Ages, Great Exhibition, Norman Shaw, Glasgow School of Art, Industrial Revolution, Bedford Park, Louis Sullivan, Owen Jones, Walter Gropius, Century Guild, Les Vingt, Walter Crane, Adolf Loos, Cranston Tearoom, Doves Press, Industrial City, Josef Hoffmann, Lord Palmerston, Otto Wagner New!
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- Art Nouveau by Stephan Tschudi Madsen on 4 pages
- William Morris by Linda Parry on page 19, and Back Matter
- The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture) by John Ruskin on page 28, and page 111
- The Seven Lamps on page 28, and page 111
- Sources of Art Nouveau (A Da Capo paperback) by Stephan Tschudi Madsen in Back Matter
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- Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture by Christopher Crouch on 4 pages
- Utopias and Architecture by Nathaniel Coleman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain by William M. Taylor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- German Architecture for a Mass Audience by Kathleen James-Chakraborty in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Thad Logan on page 75, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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