 | Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Siegfried Giedion
Buy used from: $15.51 This book did more to shape the view of modern architecture than did any other book.
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 | Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham
Buy new: $23.82 / Used from: $15.89 This book has held up well over time, as Banham explores Modern Architecture with a critical eye. First published in 1960, Theory and Design has had numerous editions but the themes remain the same.
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 | Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J R Curtis
Buy used from: $16.00 One of the most complete overviews of Modern Architecture, taking in contemporary currents as well.
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 | Modern Architecture: A Critical History (World of Art) by Kenneth Frampton
Buy used from: $0.88 He makes one of the more arduous defenses of modern architecture, taking in the full sweep of this architectural movement.
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 | Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture) by Nikolaus Pevsner
Buy used from: $1.75 The 19th century movers and shakers
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 | Bauhaus (Design)
Buy used from: $9.93 A wonderfully illustrated look at the Bauhaus in its heyday
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 | Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.99 The book that started it all. No modern library is complete without it.
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 | Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms by William J R Curtis
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $14.97 Excellent monograph
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 | The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock
Buy new: $17.21 / Used from: $9.50 The catalog from the 1932 MoMA exhibit in New York. An interesting period piece.
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 | International Style: 1925-1965 (World Architecture) by Hasan-Uddin Khan
Buy used from: $2.65 An excellent visual guide to the movement.
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 | Mies Van Der Rohe At Work by Peter Carter
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.95 A nice look back over Mies' work.
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 | Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton
Buy new: $27.72 / Used from: $24.99 A new book by Frampton which offers an impressive set of essays on key figures in modern architecture.
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 | The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946 by Victor Margolin
Buy new: $26.10 / Used from: $23.97 An interesting look at the Post WWI avant-garde
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 | Modernism by Richard Weston
Buy new: $24.26 / Used from: $19.60 Richard Weston's award winning look at how Modern Art and Architecture came together to create a movment.
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 | The Details of Modern Architecture. (v. 1) by Edward R. Ford
Buy new: $57.37 / Used from: $23.93 A beautifully presented collection of modern masterpieces, with key construction details.
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 | Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert McCarter
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $14.89 This is the best monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright that I've seen.
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 | Alvar Aalto by Richard Weston
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $22.35 One of the major figures of the modern movement
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 | Richard Neutra, 1892-1970: Survival Through Design (Taschen Basic Architecture) by Barbara Lamprecht
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.73 One of the leading American practioners
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 | Your Private Sky: R Buckminster Fuller: Discourse
Buy new: $33.70 / Used from: $18.10 The most engaging monograph on the ideas, experiments and constructions of the Dymaxion man.
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 | Modernism Rediscovered by Pierluigi Serraino
Buy used from: $19.86 A beautiful photographic tour of modern houses of the 1950's
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 | Le Corbusier: The Poetics of Machine and Metaphor (Universe Architecture Series) by Alexander Tzonis
Buy used from: $7.00 Tzonis has distilled the rich and varied work of this master of Modern Architecture into a beautifully organized book.
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 | Between Silence and Light by John Lobell
Buy used from: $8.00 An intimate view of Kahn's work
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 | Work of Charles and Ray Eames by Donald Albrecht
Buy used from: $18.71 Perhaps the most innovative modern couple
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 | Architecture Today by James Steele
Buy used from: $3.97 Who says modern architecture is dead? A beautifully illustrated guide to contemporary trends in Modern Architecture
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 | Curves of Time: Oscar Niemeyer Memoirs by Oscar Neimeyer
Buy used from: $3.00 The oldest living Modernist reflects back on the past century.
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