In Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images, Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have integrated architectur…
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The critic and historian presents an account of the most influential figures, movements, and buildings that have defined twentieth-century American architecture.
An illustrated survey of twentieth-century American architecture, discussing major architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and I.M. Pei; examining some of the significant trends and movements; and looking at landmark buildings.
For twenty-five years the Chicago Board of Trade Building reigned as Chicago's tallest structure. Now seventy-five years old, it has undergone remodeling and restoration. In this most recent Building Book from the Chicago Architecture Foundation--joining The Reliance Building, T…
The second half of the nineteenth century was the time of universal expositions in the Western world. Beginning in 1851 in London, the exhibitions, held in many cities of Europe and North America, became, in the words of the historian Eric Hobsbawm, "great new rituals of self-co…
Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place. Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American ci…
