Detlef Mertins

Michael William Jennings

Published in the 1920s by a who's who of avant-garde artists, G helped shape a new phase in modern art. This is the first English translation.

An Avant-garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film, 1923-1926

A wonderful, whimsical journey through the pioneering space-race graphics of the former Soviet Union This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia. Created against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, the extraordinary images featured, taken from the period's hugely successful popular-science magazines, were a vital tool for the promotion of state ideology. Presenting more than 250 illustrations - depicting daring discoveries, scientific innovations, futuristic visions, and extraterrestrial encounters - Soviet Space Graphics unlocks the door to the creative inner workings of the USSR.

Cosmic Visions from the USSR

Soviet Space Graphics

Oscar Riera Ojeda

Bruce Mau

Rodolphe El-Khoury

Phyllis Lambert

While this diversity is one of the signature strengths of the practice, it is the thoughtful calibration of heterogeneous influences in their rigorous design work that has established KPMB as one of Canada's premier architectural studios.".

The Architecture of Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg

For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity. In these essays he elaborates on key topics such as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference.

Other Histories of Architectural Modernity

Modernity Unbound

The classic and most definitive monograph ever published on iconic architect Mies van der Rohe - now back in print This is the most readable, beautiful, and comprehensive book ever published on one of the twentieth century's most influential architects. Known for the beauty and purity of his work, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built remarkable houses, skyscrapers, museums, and multibuilding campuses. The clarity of his architecture belies the diversity of Mies's interests, which included philosophy and science as well as design, and Mertin's rigorous and accessible text gives the reader a clear description of all of the most important buildings as well as the intellectual contexts for their design.

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