Form and Function: A Source Book for the History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939Tim Benton, Charlotte Benton, Dennis Sharp Provides the evidence for an understanding of the intellectual climate from which the architecture and design of today have spring with writings of such infludential authors as Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, Henry Van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut and Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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Alfred Lichtwark Practical Application 1897 14 | 48 |
Maurice Dufrène A Survey of Modern Ten | 123 |
Georg Muche Fine Art and Industrial Form | 151 |
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