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Basic Architecture Series - All Titles
Adolf Loos
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"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
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Mendelsohn
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
Expressionist at heart
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Mies van der Rohe
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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Richard Neutra
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"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
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Prouvé
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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Saarinen
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"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
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Hans Scharoun
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"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
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Rudolf Michael Schindler
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"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










