This scholarly study of the relationship between the visionary German-Jewish and Dutch-Catholic Modernist architects Erich Mendelsohn and Hendrik Wijdeveld, respectively, is a moving and gripping narrative that will appeal to academics and laymen alike....

German-Jewish architect Rudolf Frankel was among the leaders of the pre-war avant garde in Berlin. He later emigrated to Bucharest, London and the United States, where he taught at Miami University, Ohio. This is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to Frankel's work....

Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) was invited to design a church in the remote southern village of Klippan in 1962 at the age of 77. For architectural pilgrims, the Church of St. Petri Klippan has since become a counterpoint to the influential Chapel of Notre Dame at Ronchamp (1955). Th...