The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture
by La Marche, Jean
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 025202785X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252027857
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About This Item
Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xv, [3], 145, [3] p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Dust jacket. "This ambitious study uses the concept of the familiar and the avant-garde practice of defamiliarization to reexamine some of the most important buildings of the twentieth century . . . [and] examines the work -- written and built -- of four seminal twentieth-century architects and firms: Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and the partnership of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009791
- Title
- The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Twentieth-Century Architecture
- Author
- La Marche, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 025202785X
- ISBN 13
- 9780252027857
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana; Chicago
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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