{"title":"Dover Architecture Ser","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"towards-a-new-architecture-book-le-corbusier-9780486250236","title":"Towards a New Architecture","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond \"style,\" to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established \"emotional relationships by means of raw materials.\"\u003cbr\u003e The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in \u003ci\u003eVers une Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, \u003ci\u003eL'Esprit Nouveau\u003c\/i\u003e. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the \"mass-production spirit,\" and much else. A principal prophet of the \"modern\" movement in architecture, and a near-legendary figure of the \"International School,\" he designed some of the twentieth century's most memorable buildings: Chapel at Ronchamp; Swiss dormitory at the Cité Universitaire, Paris; Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles; and many more.\u003cbr\u003e Le Corbusier brought great passion and intelligence to these essays, which present his ideas in a concise, pithy style, studded with epigrammatic, often provocative, observations: \"American engineers overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture.\" \"Architecture is stifled by custom. It is the only profession in which progress is not considered necessary.\" \"A cathedral is not very beautiful . . .\" and \"Rome is the damnation of the half-educated. To send architectural students to Rome is to cripple them for life.\"\u003cbr\u003e Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of his own works and other structures he considered important, \u003ci\u003eTowards a New Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable reading for architects, city planners, and cultural historians―but will intrigue anyone fascinated by the wide-ranging ideas, unvarnished opinions, and innovative theories of one of this century's master builders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49518520303889,"sku":"CIN0486250237G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49661686612241,"sku":"GOR001479055","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49790437228817,"sku":"CIN0486250237A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50132674281745,"sku":"CIN0486250237VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50978923249937,"sku":"GOR010515085","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002805944593,"sku":"NIN9780486250236","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51303530561809,"sku":"GOR002033793","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486250237.jpg?v=1751072589"},{"product_id":"drawings-and-plans-of-frank-lloyd-wright-book-frank-lloyd-wright-9780486244570","title":"Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright","description":"\u003cp\u003eI would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building -- or the significance of those buildings I have already built. -- Frank Lloyd Wright\u003cbr\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections of designs with commentary that temperamentally parallel that work: irascible, radical, powerful and dense, astonishing and simple in its clarity. One of his earliest published works illustrates the parallel, preserving thought and design at a prophetic moment, shortly before Wright's genius and fame captured two continents and many converts. The Wasmuth portfolio of drawings (named after the original German publisher) is reproduced here from an extremely rare first edition (1910).\u003cbr\u003eWright's polemical preface indicates the importance he attached to the drawings and their publication: . . . the work illustrated in this volume, with the exception of the work of Louis Sullivan, is the first consistent protest in bricks and mortar against this pitiful waste  academic, inorganic styles]. It is a serious attempt to formulate some industrial and aesthetic ideals that in a quiet, rational way will help to make a lovely thing of an American's home environment. . . . Home environment for Wright was the Midwestern plain; these these drawings, perhaps his earliest experiments in organic design, partake of the Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin prairie with their emphasis on the horizontal (the line of domesticity) and the environmental motif: A beautiful elm standing near gave the suggestion for the mass of the building, Wright says of the Winslow house in River Forest, Illinois, a dwelling he cites as the first embodiment of many of his ideas. Elegant full-page architectural drawings and plans show Wright's atelier in Oak Park, Illinois, many homes, cottages, banks, a burial chapel, Unity Church temple, a concrete house designed for \u003ci\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous studies for buildings, treated as problems in design, that were never built.\u003cbr\u003eThe republication of this rare work gives access again to what has been called the single most important collection of work published by Frank Lloyd Wright. Students of American architectural genius will find here the seeds of Wright's greatness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532695773457,"sku":"GOR010283541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49710293156113,"sku":"CIN0486244571A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49849531498769,"sku":"CIN0486244571G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50913686356241,"sku":"CIN0486244571VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002791461137,"sku":"NIN9780486244570","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486244571.jpg?v=1750814691"},{"product_id":"victorian-cottage-architecture-book-george-fbarber-9780486429908","title":"Victorian Cottage Architecture","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49692680552721,"sku":"CIN0486429903VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50329368232209,"sku":"CIN0486429903G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50628794646801,"sku":"GOR014017299","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50641854365969,"sku":"GOR014021124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486429903.jpg?v=1751261457"},{"product_id":"house-in-good-taste-book-elsie-de-wolfe-9780486819273","title":"The House in Good Taste","description":"In this timeless 1913 book, the \"first lady\" of American interior design defines her decorating methods and philosophy. Elsie de Wolfe pioneered the concept of the home as a representation of the owner's identity and her practical approach to creating spaces for gracious entertaining illuminate the attitudes of a century ago while retaining their resonance for modern-day interior designers. Includes period photographs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731102966033,"sku":"NGR9780486819273","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50203965096209,"sku":"GOR013887213","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51453263610129,"sku":"CIN0486819272G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486819272.jpg?v=1751260866"},{"product_id":"old-mexico-book-alfred-c-bossom-9780486436388","title":"Old Mexico","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51607008706833,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51607009755409,"sku":"CIN0486436381G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486436381.jpg?v=1751261473"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/dover-architecture-ser-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}