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Modern Architecture (to 1945)

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Gaudi

Gijs van Hensbergen

The Drive-in, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941

Richard W. Longstreth

From Bauhaus to Our House

Tom Wolfe

The New York Public Library

Henry Hope Read, Francis Morrone

American Country Houses of the Gilded Age

A. Lewis

Sears Modern Homes, 1913

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

New York Art Deco

Eric P. Nash, Andrew Garn

The House the Rockefellers Built

Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell

The Flatiron

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Makers of Modern Architecture

Martin Filler

Gaudí

Maria Antonietta Crippa, Peter Gössel