About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features: An introduction to the life and work of the architect. The major works in chronological order. Information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions. A list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings. Approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans).
Claire Zimmerman writes on modern architecture and contemporary
culture. She was a member of the core research team for MoMA’s 2001
exhibition Mies in Berlin, and is associate professor of history of
art at the University of Michigan.
Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He
has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M.
Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several
titles in the Basic Architecture series.
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