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Makers of Modern Architecture From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry

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ISBN-10: 1590172272

ISBN-13: 9781590172278

Edition: 2007

Authors: Martin Filler

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Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our built environment, veteran architecture critic Martin Filler offers fresh insights into this unprecedented cultural transformation. From Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper, to Frank Gehry, magician of post-millennial museum, Filler emphasizes how their force of personality has had a decisive effect on everything from how we inhabit our homes to how we shape our cities. Why was the sudden…    
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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.54" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House and Garden until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Boissiere, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and the author of Makers of Modern Architecture, Volumes I and II, based on essays from The New York Review of Books. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Alvar Aalto
Charles and Ray Eames
Louis Kahn
Philip Johnson
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Frank Gehry
Richard Meier
Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti
Norman Foster
Renzo Piano
Daniel Libeskind / David Childs
Santiago Calatrava