Basic Architecture Series - All Titles
 Mies van der Rohe
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
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 Palladio
Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
The classical Roman revivalist
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 Ponti
Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
An introduction to Ponti’s creative process and an overview of the various phases of his career
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 Prouvé
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
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 New! Scarpa
Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
The beauty of Scarpa's art in architecture, shown in stunning private and public buildings and interiors
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 Scharoun
Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (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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 Schindler
Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (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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 Schinkel
Softcover, flaps, 18.5 x 23 cm (7.3 x 9.1 in.), 96 pages
$ 9.99 Basic Architecture
"To turn something useful, practical, functional into something beautiful – that is architecture`s duty." - Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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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