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Modern & Contemporary Architecture

1. Greening Modernism: Preservation, Sustainability, and the Modern Movement

   Carl Stein

   Greening Modernism addresses the interrelationships between sustainability, architectural preservation, and the Modern movement and places these issues into historical perspective.More

2. Light Color Sound: Sensory Effects in Contemporary Architecture

   Alejandro Bahamón, Ana María Álvarez

   Showcases an array of contemporary buildings that glitter, glow, and resound thanks to advanced technologies.More

3. The Architecture of Patterns

   Paul Andersen, David Salomon, David Carson, Et Al.

   Through a precise and expansive definition of what a pattern is, this book offers ways to understand and use patterns in contemporary design.More

4. Charles Rennie Mackintosh

   James Macaulay, Mark Fiennes

   A major architectural study of one of the pioneers of modernism.More

5. Rematerial: From Waste to Architecture

   Alejandro Bahamón, Maria Camila Sanjinés

   How someone else’s waste can become the next designer’s building material.More

6. Inclusive Housing: A Pattern Book: Design for Diversity and Equality

   Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Edward Steinfeld, Jonathan White

   An invaluable resource for designing communities that accommodate social diversity and provide equitable opportunities for all residents.More

7. Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage

   Cathryn Griffith, Dick Cluster, Eusebio Leal Spengler

   This beautifully illustrated book documents the history, preservation, and present uses of Havana’s most important buildings and urban spaces.More

8. Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson

   Saxon Henry

   A colorful survey explores the diverse styles of the arbiters of modernism in Florida.More

9. Tadelakt

   Michael Johannes Ochs

   The first comprehensive description of an old Moroccan plaster technique that creates unique, sensual, natural effects.More

10. Corporate Architecture: Building a Brand

    Alejandro Bahamón, Ana Cañizares, Antonio Corcuera

    How the fashion, banking, automotive, and telecommunications industries use architecture as a tool of marketing strategy.More

11. Inspired by Nature: Animals: The Building/Biology Connection

    Alejandro Bahamón, Patricia Pérez

    A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.More

12. Eero Saarinen: Buildings from the Balthazar Korab Archive

    David G. De Long, C. Ford Peatross

    A timely portrait of the work of an architect who expanded the vocabulary of modern architecture.More

13. Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier

    Simon Holloway, Adam Mornement

    When Henry Palmer of the London Dock Company was granted the first patent for “indented or corrugated metallic sheets” in 1829, he little realized what he was starting.
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14. Havana Deco

    Alejandro G. Alonso, Pedro Contreras, Martino Fagiuoli

    An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana, this colorful book shows the work of Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, who filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of Caribbean nature and made the art their own.More

15. Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture: Designs for the 21st Century

    Judith Gura

    The five countries known collectively as Scandinavia have been the source of some of the most important furniture designs of the twentieth century.More