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Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos

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"Mankind loves everything that serves his comfort. He hates everything that wants to tear him from his habitual and safe position and that bothers him. And thus he loves the building and hates art." - Adolf Loos
Mendelsohn

Mendelsohn

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Expressionist at heart
Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

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Compact overviews of the world's greatest architects
Richard Neutra

Richard Neutra

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"The continual refinement of human knowledge of the body and soul came to be one and the same thing for me, and the architecture of human living space its most necessary application and valuation."- Richard Neutra
Prouvé

Prouvé

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Compact overviews of the world's greatest architects
Saarinen

Saarinen

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"Each age must create its own architecture out of its own technology and one which is expressive of its own Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time". - Eero Saarinen
Hans Scharoun

Hans Scharoun

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"The essence of the artistic design in building – like all art – indeed provides meaning for man's existence and in itself it confirmes its result that became form." - Hans Scharoun
Rudolf Michael Schindler

Rudolf Michael Schindler

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"The sense for the perception of architecture is not the eyes - but living." R.M. Schindler
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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