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THE SOURCES OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

THE SOURCES OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

$27.95 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the International Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by tracing the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts. Featuring a new foreword by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design has now been…