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Basic Architecture Series - All Titles
 Coming soon Frey
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
The desert modernist
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 Antoni Gaudí
Softcover, flaps 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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 Walter Gropius
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"Many of the things that seem to be luxuries today will become the norm in the near future." - Walter Gropius
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 Kahn
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
Compact overviews of the world's greatest architects
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 Koenig
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
A leading proponent of the Case Study House program
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 Lautner
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"Disappearing space seems to me to be the most durable and endurable and life-giving quality in architecture." -John Lautner
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 Le Corbusier
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light." - Le Corbusier
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- 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