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This book features an insightful introduction which contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of classical architecture in the USA Great American Homes: William T. Baker is IMAGES' third monograph on this outstanding new classicis...

Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a bold new hybrid of light, geometry, and indu...

Spiralling Ideas. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, hero of fluid forms and ecology Architect, artist, ecological visionary, Friedensreich Hundertwasser left a thrilling trail of imagination and activism in buildings, paintings, manifestos, and more. F...

Revolt Against the Straight Line. The highly irregular architecture of a freethinking artist Biomorphic forms, unbridled colour, and gentle chaos characterize the architecture of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This monograph compiles his architectur...

Space-Age Architecture. Back to the future with the visionary West Coast architect With his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner is responsible for some of the most original buildings of...

Building the future. The man with a modern mission Even in his unrealised projects, Le Corbusier redefined modern living, synthesising functionalism, expressionism, and expansive urban thinking from Switzerland to Chandigarh, India. This book prov...

Brilliant Buildings. Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language Louis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the...

Ever since his self-proclamation as part of the "New York Five," Richard Meier has risen through one top commission after another to the dizzy heights of architectural stardom.  From Madison Square Garden to Shenzhen, China, his sle...

Less is more. Finding perfection in purity Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and urban exper...

Mighty Morris. The arts and crafts power of designer William Morris William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England’s Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His...

In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony.  As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow panoramic views over mountains, gardens, palm...

The quintessential California Modernist. Richard Neutra and his search for modern architecture Indoor-outdoor flow meets clean, crisp modernism in the structures of Austrian-American Richard Neutra, master of postwar architecture whose cool, sleek...

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, the classically trained architects of John Malick and Associates draw from numerous historical styles, including English Arts and Crafts, Mediterranean, and Georgian Colonial. Each project reflects t...

Nouvel vague. France's leading architect Jean Nouvel, the winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France’s most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970 he assisted influential architects Cla...

The Pioneer of Viennese Modernism. Discover the groundbreaking structures of Otto Wagner At once a realist and a visionary, an architect and a builder, Otto Wagner innovated a new era in building-making. Born in Vienna, the visionary architect mad...