World Architecture

A compendium of the most innovative and influential residential buildings in the United States since 1900.

Islamic art has long been misunderstood in the West as no more than decoration. This study explains how the geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal intrinsic cosmological laws. The primary function of the patterns is to lead the mind from the literal world towards the underlying reality.

Features work by twelve celebrated Swiss architects. This book presents an overview of Swiss architecture and considers the cultural attitudes that have fostered the many refined buildings. It features work of each architect as shown via a profile of three to six projects that are documented through plans, drawings and photographs.

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In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture, since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. This book offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.

Surveys more than thirty houses, discussing the architects of the period and illustrating a privileged society at the turn of the century.

A curated list of more than 250 must-see destinations organized geographically from Maine to Florida