Rossi, The Architecture of the City
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In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and ...
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Peter Eisenman, renowned for his own controversial and influential body of work, looks at ten leading architects of the twentieth century and their ...
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An important volume available in Italian and in English, produced in co-edition with 24 ORE Culture, that through long and complex archival research ...
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Since founding the T.O.P. (“Turn On Planning”) Office in the 1970s, Belgian architect and artist Luc Deleu (born 1944) has been working on ...
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