Basic Architecture Series - All Titles

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Ando Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture Compact overviews of the world's greatest architects
Bauhaus Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture An overview of the seminal movement in art and architecture
Breuer Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture From steel tubes to reinforced concrete: the magical Modernist
Calatrava Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture Feats of design and engineering
Candela Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture Experimentation and invention
Eames Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture Design's dynamic duo: Ray and Charles Eames
Frey Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture The desert modernist
Gaudí Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages $ 9.99 Basic Architecture "Do you want to know where I found my model? An upright tree; it bears its branches and these, in turn, their twigs, and these, in turn, the leaves. And every individual part has been growing harmoniously, magnificently, ever since God the artist created it." - Antoni Gaudí
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Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings