This book offers a comprehensive tribute to Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino, renowned for his furniture designs and erotic Polaroids. It explores his architectural work, blending modernism with surrealism, featuring key projects, illustrations, and previously unpublished documents, alongside expert essays providing context.
Focusing on iconic twentieth-century architecture, this book explores the classic houses that shaped American Midwestern modernism. It offers an in-depth survey of significant designs, highlighting their unique features and the cultural context that influenced their creation. Readers will gain insight into the architectural movements and key figures that contributed to this distinctive style, making it an essential resource for enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Canada is a country of massive size, of diverse geographical features and an equally diverse population all features that are magnificently reflected in its architecture. In this book, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino offer a richly informative history of Canadian architecture that celebrates and explores the country s many contrib
Pride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.