Architecture, Modern
Here are entered works on architecture of the modern period (since 1500). Works on the modernist style of architecture are entered under Modern movement (Architecture).
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Architecture, Modern -- 19th century
- Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
- Architecture, Modern -- 21st century
- Architecture, Modern -- Exhibitions
- Architecture -- Italy
- Neoclassicism (Architecture)
- Modern architecture
- Contemporary architecture
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Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)- Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), by Diane Shaw (multiple formats at Project MUSE)
- The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)
- The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (c1997), ed. by Martha D. Pollak (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
- Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas (2015), by Ingrid Böck (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
- The Open Hand: Essays on Le Corbusier (1982), ed. by Russell Walden (PDF files at MIT)
- John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Linda M. Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins (PDF at University of Calgary)
- An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- 1966 Architectural Awards: Buildings With Fallout Shelter (1967) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)
- Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)
- Faith and the Built Environment: Architecture and Behavior in Islamic Cultures, ed. by Suha Ozkan (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down to "Child Publications" for chapter links and downloads))
- Mimarlık (partial serial archives)
- Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
- The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt
- The architecture and landscape gardening of the exposition, a pictorial survey of the most beautiful of the architectural compositions of the Panama-Pacific international exposition; (first edition; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1915), ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond, and John Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (second edition, revised; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1915), by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1975), by N. A. Mili︠u︡tin, ed. by George R. Collins and William Alex, trans. by Arthur R. Sprague, contrib. by Tanya Page (PDF files at MIT)
- Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archaeology of Modernism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2000), by Adolf Max Vogt (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
- Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)
- Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019), by Martin Kohlrausch (HTML at Project MUSE)
- Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- Transcultural Modernisms (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v12; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2013), ed. by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Moira Hille, Jakob Krameritsch, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
- Living Spaces (New York: Whitney Publications, 1952), ed. by George Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), by Frank Lloyd Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Professional Observations on the Architecture of the Principal Ancient and Modern Buildings in France and Italy: With Remarks on the Painting and Sculpture, and a Concise Local Description of Those Countries, Written From Sketches and Memoranda Made During a Visit in the Years 1802 and 1803 (London: Printed for the author by W. Ballintine, 1806), by George Tappan
- Ravenna: A Study, by Edward Hutton (Gutenberg text)
- Viaggio Curioso de' Palazzi e Ville Più Notabili di Roma (in Italian; Rome: Per il Moneta, 1683), by Pietro de' Sebastiani
- Obeliscus Pamphilius (in Latin; Rome: L. Grignani, 1650), by Athanasius Kircher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Stones of Venice (3 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1851-1853), by John Ruskin
- Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1983), by George L. Hersey (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens (New York: The Century Co., 1905), by Edith Wharton, illust. by Maxfield Parrish
- The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated, by Robert Castell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ville e Castelli d'Italia: Lombardia e Laghi (second edition, in Italian; Milano : Edizione della "Tecnografica", 1907)
- Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture: Chiefly Selected From Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France and Italy (London: Day and Son, 1862), by W. Eden Nesfield (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gubbio und Seine Mittelalterlichen Bauten (dissertation in German; Berlin: E. Wasmuth, 1914), by Robert Schulze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Ville e Castelli d'Italia: Lombardia e Laghi (second edition, in Italian; Milano : Edizione della "Tecnografica", 1907)
- Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, the Bibiena Family, and Other Italian Draughtsmen (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975), ed. by Mary L. Myers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1983), by George L. Hersey (PDF files with commentary at MIT)
- Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Designing Paris: The Architecture of Duban, Labrouste, Duc, and Vaudoyer (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1987), by David Van Zanten (PDF files at MIT)
- Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Esquires (in English and French; London: Printed for the authors, 1773-1779), by Robert Adam and James Adam
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