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Architecture, Postmodern

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• Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
• Postmodernism
• Architecture

• Postmodern architecture

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• Architecture Beyond Architecture (1995), ed. by Cynthia C. Davidson and Ismail Serageldin (PDF at archnet.org)
• Architecture for Islamic Societies Today (1994), ed. by James Steele (PDF 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 inset to "Associated documents" 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
  • illustrated HTML at books-about-california.com
  • Gutenberg text (text only)
• 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)

• 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)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)

• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner (PDF at UCLA)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Absolutes or Not (Springfield, MO: Global University, 2009), by David Kowalski (PDF at globalreach.org)
• Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), by Merold Westphal (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek (c2008), by Geoff Boucher (PDF with commentary at re-press.org)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• Architecture at Rice University (partial serial archives)
• In What Style Should We Build? The German Debate on Architectural Style (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), ed. by Wolfgang Herrmann, contrib. by Heinrich Hübsch, Rudolf Wiegmann, Carl Albert Rosenthal, Karl Bötticher, and Johann Heinrich Wolff (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Active Eye in Architecture (1977), by George Trevelyan (illustrated HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (1922), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (Gutenberg text)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (Rochester, NY: Manas Press, 1910), by Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Typographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical (Home Cyclopedia #7, 2 volumes in 1; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by Robert Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Descriptive Handbook of Architecture (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, ca. 1905), by Martin A. Buckmaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six Lectures on Architecture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1917), by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings, and Claude Fayette Bragdon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth (London: Percival and Co., 1892), by Ch. Letourneau (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Crown of Wild Olive (New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., n.d.), by John Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.