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        Machine à Amuser

        Machine à Amuser

        The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment

        by Wim van den Bergh

        ISBN: 9780262048774

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 9, 2024

        A richly illustrated history of a single building, the celebrated and yet enigmatic penthouse of the wealthy playboy Charles de Beistegui, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in late 1920s Paris.
        The House at Capo d’Orso

        The House at Capo d'Orso

        by Sebastiano Brandolini

        ISBN: 9780262544962

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 2, 2023

        Rocks, wind, sea, and sky frame a house on the Sardinian coast, and the house frames a family's life and art, suspended in memory.
        Brutalism as Found

        Brutalism as Found

        Housing, Form, and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens

        by Nicholas Thoburn

        ISBN: 9781913380045

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: December 27, 2022

        A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today.
        Living and Working

        Living and Working

        by Dogma

        ISBN: 9780262543514

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 24, 2022

        An argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living.
        Peter Friedl

        Peter Friedl

        Rehousing

        Edited by Kunsthalle Wien

        Foreword by Vanessa Joan Müller

        ISBN: 9783956795510

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: February 2, 2021

        Writers respond to the architectural true-to-scale models of Peter Friedl's Rehousing series.
        Transcultural Modernisms

        Transcultural Modernisms

        Edited by Model House Research Group

        ISBN: 9783956790126

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 6, 2013

        Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernisms maps out the network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architectural modernity...
        Jorge Pardo

        Jorge Pardo

        Tecoh

        Edited by Alex Coles

        ISBN: 9783943365443

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: April 5, 2013

        Tecoh is a sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist Jorge Pardo deep in the Yucatán jungle. Taking over six years to fabricate, and engaging existing ruins of a nineteenth-century hacienda,...
        The Artist’s House

        The Artist's House

        From Workplace to Artwork

        by Kirsty Bell

        ISBN: 9783943365306

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 7, 2012

        The artist's house is a prism through which to view not only the artistic practice of its inhabitant, but also to apprehend broader developments in sculpture and contemporary art in relation to domestic...
        The Provisional City

        The Provisional City

        Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism

        by Dana Cuff

        ISBN: 9780262532020

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 23, 2002

        How the modern city is formed through an endless cycle of upheavals, demolition, and debate.
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