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Mies van der Rohe: Vila Tugendhat Brno
Alex Dill, Rudiger Kramm, ...

Wasmuth, 2008

Mies van der Rohe's renowned Tugendhat House was designed and built in Brno, Czech Republic in 1928-30 at precisely the same time as van der Rohe's visionary (but sadly temporary) Barcelona Pavilion. Here, this masterpiece of domestic Modernism is brought to life in three exquisite photo essays.
  
  











  



  
Embassies: 50 Years of Foreign Buildings by the Federal Republic of Germany
Olaf Asendorf, Dieter Bartezko, ...

Wasmuth, 2002

Diplomatic missions abroad represent their home countries in many ways, the most visible of which may be the structures that house them. The design of embassies poses a representational problem fit for the most diplomatic of architects. As traced in through the essays collected here, the German embassies built over the last 50 years have ...
  
  











  



  
They Laid the Foundation: Lives and Works of German-Speaking Jewish Architects in Palestine 1918-1948
Myra Warhaftig

Wasmuth, 2007

Beginning in the 1920s, and especially after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws in the 1930s, more than 130 Jewish architects chose to leave their native Germany and begin afresh in Palestine. Many of them, including Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal, left behind significant buildings that were already central to the urban image of ...
  
  











  



  
The Secret of the Shadow: Light and Shadow in Architecture
Daniel Libeskind, Roberto Casati, ...

Wasmuth, 2002

Light and shadow belong together. Yet the increasing number of artificial light sources on earth are resulting in continuously decreasing zones of shadow and darkness. In architecture, the growing use of glass and other translucent layers questions the very significance of shadows. Do they protect against or cause a loss of brightness? Do we even ...
  
  











  



  
Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray

Wasmuth, 2000

more pictures, please
I daresay, this book is a smashing good read. Actually, I only checked it out it for the pictures. They were goody.
  
  











  



  
Chile: Crypt and House (O'Neil Ford Duograph)
Rodrigo Perez de Arce, Smiljan Radic

Wasmuth, 2008

This volume focuses on two architectural projects that, taken together, provide a telling glimpse into the Chilean culture and landscape--from its colonial legacy to its magnificent coast. Smiljan Radic's House in Punta Pite merges vernacular architecture with a crisp, Modernist sense of design to create a structure that blends intimately with the ...
  
  











  



  
The Smithy's Craft & Tools (Werk und Werkzeug des Kunstschmieds)
Otto Schmirler

Wasmuth, 1981

Tools and work methods of the Art-Smith
Werk und Werkzeug des Kunstschmieds (Tools and work methods of the Art-Smith) by Otto Schmirler, printed in Austria by Ernst Wasmuth Tübingen from 1981. This is a how-to style book for ornamental ironworkers. By far the most sought after book for the artist-blacksmith ...
  
  











  



  
Yva: Photographies 1925-1938
Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat

Wasmuth, 2002

Before she died in the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II, Else Simon crafted lush, sensual photographs of feminine decadence. An established photographer who worked in Berlin under the name of Yva, Simon took fabulous, fashionable pictures for the magazines of big publishing houses, achieving worldwide respect in during her short ...
  
  











  



  
Soane House, London (Opus (Berlin, Germany), 14.)

Wasmuth, 1994

The first complete documentation of the Soane House exposes the building's highly individual design in a series of masterful, beautifully detailed photographs.
  
  











  



  
Helmut Jacoby: Master of Architectural Drawing

Wasmuth, 2002

One of the foremost architectural renderers of the 20th century, Helmut Jacoby's presentation drawings of such masters as Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Marcel Breuer, and SOM constitute a panoramic sweep of the innovations of Modernism in North America during the 1950s and 60s. This volume is the first-ever publication of all of ...
  
  











  



  
Alvaro Siza: Bouca (O'Neil Ford Monograph)
Alvaro Siza

Wasmuth, 2008

From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bouca Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he realized in association with architect Antonio Madureira. During those ...
  
  











  



  
Heinz Bienefeld, 1926-1995 (Schriftenreihe zur Plan- und Modellsammlung des Deutschen Architektur-Museums in ...

Wasmuth, 1999
  
  











  



  
Fur Den Kunstschmied
Otto Schmirler

E. Wasmuth, 1986

Very Good
A very good book, whit multiples examples of european style from 40 ths. The designs are the basis for some modern enterprises like India ferro and others.
  
  











  



  
Betz Architekten

Wasmuth, 2005

This revised edition shows the current multi-facetted activities of the renowned Betz Architects, founded by Bea and Walter Betz in Munich. For the most part undisturbed by trends, they have created buildings that continually emphasize the value of atmospheric qualities that sensually convey architecture to its users. Their many fields of work are ...
  
  











  



  
Bildlexikon des Heiligen Berges Athos, 3 Tle., Tl.3, Karten und Tafeln
Paul M. Mylonas

Wasmuth, 2001
  
  











  



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