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With this book, TASCHEN brings them to light, \u003cstrong\u003epaying homage to California Modernism in all its forms\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The \u003cstrong\u003eabandoned files of Julius Shulman\u003c\/strong\u003e show us another side of Modernism that has stayed quiet for so many years. Bringing together nearly 300 forgotten masterpieces, \u003cem\u003eModernism Rediscovered\u003c\/em\u003e pays tribute to these lesser known yet outstanding contributions to the modern architectural movement. 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Less appreciated has been the landscape design that provides the framing for these masterworks. But more than frame, landscape architecture is an art worthy of the spotlight, particularly at mid-century, when the notion that “gardens are outdoor spaces for people to live in” was championed and brought to the fore; now gardens and landscapes are not just external attributes to the house but a continuation of it and its living spaces in a relationship of symbiosis, with its pools and terraces, its winding lawns, and its partly enclosed room-like spaces flanked by brick or stone or plantings in a range of colors and forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApproximately seventy-five mostly residential projects are thoroughly documented and recounted. Landscape architects whose work is featured include Thomas Church, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo, among others. Highlights include the dramatic surrounds of Richard Neutra’s Perkins House in its Pasadena hillside setting and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marin County Civic Center, where environment and building comingle in an extraordinary modernist vision of the future made real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is both a wishful gesture toward a realignment of building with nature and a must-have for anyone with a visceral appreciation for a designed environment understood as an integrated whole. 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And towering above the ever-growing crowd of image-makers is Ezra Stoller, an architectural photographer of immeasurable consequence in documenting the history of modern architecture – both known and unknown – in the United States and beyond. This book is one of the first to present the breadth of Stoller's largely unseen archive of images, brought to life through exquisite color and duotone black-and-white reproductions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296328593781,"sku":"9780714879222","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780714879222_6bb10bcb-6745-4116-bbfe-d46d3211293d.jpg?v=1786014709"},{"product_id":"alvar-aalto","title":"Alvar Aalto","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom product design to city planning and everything in between, Finnish master Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) authored works of transformational impact on people’s lives. 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