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  1. Acropolis
    Martin Filler
    The New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009, pp. 53-55
  2. [+]
    All About Eames (6 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Charles and Ray Eames, by Pat Kirkham
    1. Charles and Ray Eames by Pat Kirkham
    2. Eames House by James Steele#2
    3. The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. I (1996 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
    4. The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. II (1989 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
    5. The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. III (1977 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
    6. The Films of Charles and Ray Eames, Vol. IV (1993 Film) by Charles Eames and Ray Eames
    The New York Review of Books, June 20, 1996, pp. 42-47
  3. [+]
    Big Mack (3 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, by Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell
    1. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928 by Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell
    2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Wendy Kaplan and Charles Rennie MacKintosh
    3. Mackintosh's Masterwork by William Buchanan, James Macaulay, and Andrew MacMillan, ...
    The New York Review of Books, February 20, 1997, pp. 7-10
  4. [+]
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain (3 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Building the Getty, by Richard Meier
    1. Building the Getty by Richard Meier
    2. The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections by John Walsh and Deborah A. Gribbon
    3. Making Architecture by Harold M. Williams, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Stephen D. Rountree, ...
    The New York Review of Books, December 18, 1997, pp. 29-34
  5. [+]
    Broad-Minded Museum (Review)
    Martin Filler
    Renzo Piano Museums, by Renzo Piano
    1. Renzo Piano Museums by Renzo Piano
    The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008, pp. 15-18
  6. [+]
    Building & Nothingness (4 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, by Franz Schulze
    1. Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography by Franz Schulze
    2. Mies van der Rohe by David Spaeth
    3. Mies van der Rohe by Wolf Tegethoff
    4. Mies (1986 Film) by Michael Blackwood
    The New York Review of Books, June 12, 1986, pp. 26-32
  7. [+]
    Fabrication & Bucky Fuller (3 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen
    1. Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen
    2. Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe by K. Michael Hays and Dana Miller
    3. Topologies by Larry Busbea
    The New York Review of Books, October 9, 2008, pp. 30-32
  8. [+]
    Fantasia (Review)
    Martin Filler
    Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture, by Robert Venturi
    1. Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture by Robert Venturi
    The New York Review of Books, October 23, 1997, pp. 10-13
  9. [+]
    The Getty: For Better and Worse (Review)
    Martin Filler
    The Getty Villa, by Marion True and Jorge Silvetti
    1. The Getty Villa by Marion True and Jorge Silvetti
    The New York Review of Books, November 16, 2006, pp. 47-53
  10. [+]
    Ghosts in the House (4 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works, by Francesco Dal Co and Kurt Forster
    1. Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works by Francesco Dal Co and Kurt Forster
    2. Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by Coosje Van Buggen and Frank O. Gehry
    3. Gehry Talks: Architecture and Process by Mildred Friedman and Frank Gehry
    4. Frank O. Gehry: Kurt W. Forster by Cristina Bechtler
    The New York Review of Books, October 21, 1999, pp. 10-14
  11. [+]
    Giant in the Woods (3 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Finnish Modern Design, by Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine
    1. Finnish Modern Design by Marianne Aav and Nina Stritzler-Levine
    2. Alvar Aalto: Master Works by Goran Schildt
    3. The Alvar Aalto Guide by Michael Trencher
    The New York Review of Books, April 9, 1998, pp. 16-20
  12. [+]
    He'd Rather Be Wright (11 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography, by Meryle Secrest
    1. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography by Meryle Secrest
    2. Collected Writings by Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
    3. Wright Studies, Vol. I by Narciso G. Menocal
    4. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 by Anthony Alofsin
    5. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and David Larkin
    6. Frank Lloyd Wright by Kathryn Smith
    7. Barnsdall House by James Steele#2
    8. The Wright Style by Carla Lind
    9. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion by William Allin Storrer
    10. About Wright by Edgar Tafel
    11. Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect by Terence Riley and Frank Lloyd Wright
    The New York Review of Books, January 13, 1994, pp. 28-34
  13. [+]
    He's the Top (4 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn, by Jan Hochstim
    1. Paintings and Sketches of Louis I. Kahn by Jan Hochstim
    2. Louis I. Kahn: Writings, Lectures, Interviews by Alessandra Latour and Louis I. Kahn
    3. Louis I. Kahn by David B. Brownlee and David G. De Long
    4. The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn by Patricia Cummings Loud
    The New York Review of Books, February 11, 1993, pp. 16-19
  14. [+]
    High Wire Acts (3 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Logbook, by Renzo Piano
    1. Logbook by Renzo Piano
    2. Renzo Piano Building Workshop by Peter Buchanan
    3. Technology, Place, and Architecture by Kenneth Frampton
    The New York Review of Books, February 4, 1999, pp. 27-32
  15. [+]
    House Hunting (Review)
    Martin Filler
    The Most Beautiful House in the World, by Witold Rybczynski
    1. The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
    The New York Review of Books, February 1, 1990, pp. 26-29
  16. Letters
    Franz Schulze and Martin Filler
    The New York Review of Books, May 25, 1995, pp. 44-48
  17. Letters
    David Astor, Claus von Bulow, and J. Patrice Marandel, ...
    The New York Review of Books, February 19, 1998, pp. 45-48
  18. Letters
    Stephanie Coontz, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Andrew Hacker, ...
    The New York Review of Books, September 24, 1998, pp. 84-88
  19. Letters
    Michael Ybarra, Sam Tanenhaus, and Arnold B. Come, ...
    The New York Review of Books, November 18, 1999, pp. 65-68
  20. Letters
    Sanford Schwartz, Stephen R. Shalom, and Janet Kesterberg Amighi, ...
    The New York Review of Books, August 14, 2008, pp. 73-76
  21. Letters
    David J.R. Frakt, Anthony Lewis, and Julian Barnes, ...
    The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2008, pp. 73-76
  22. Letters
    Patrick French, Ian Buruma, Juliet Walker, and Joseph Woodward, ...
    The New York Review of Books, February 12, 2009, pp. 49-52
  23. Letters
    Monique Canto-Sperber, Tony Judt, and Philip Breeden, ...
    The New York Review of Books, April 29, 2010, pp. 65-68
  24. [+]
    Maman's Boy (8 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Le Corbusier: A Life, by Nicholas Fox Weber
    1. Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber
    2. The Rhetoric of Modernism by Tim Benton
    3. The Villas of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, 1920-1930 by Tim Benton
    4. Le Corbusier and the Maisons Jaoul by Caroline Maniaque Benton
    5. Le Corbusier and Britain by Irena Murray and Julian Osley
    6. Le Corbusier Le Grand by Jean-Louis Cohen
    7. Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture by Alexander von Vegesack and Stanislaus von Moos, ...
    8. Le Corbusier and the Occult by J.K. Birksted
    The New York Review of Books, April 30, 2009, pp. 33-36
  25. [+]
    The Master Builder (4 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work, by Robert Twombly
    1. Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work by Robert Twombly
    2. The Curve of the Arch by Larry Millett
    3. Louis Sullivan by Wim de Wit
    4. Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture by David S. Andrew
    The New York Review of Books, January 29, 1987, pp. 30-34
  26. The Mighty Penn
    Martin Filler
    The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009, p. 21
  27. Miracle on the Bowery
    Martin Filler
    The New York Review of Books, January 17, 2008, pp. 20-22
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    The Most Happy Couple (2 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Victoria and Albert, by Jonathan Marsden
    1. Victoria and Albert by Jonathan Marsden
    2. The Young Victoria (2009 Film) by Jean-Marc Vallee
    The New York Review of Books, August 19, 2010, pp. 67-71
  29. On Architecture
    Martin Filler
    Goodbye, Columbus
    The New Republic, August 28, 2000, pp. 30-32
  30. On Architecture
    Martin Filler
    Shafts of Light
    The New Republic, February 7, 2000, pp. 28-33
  31. On Architecture
    Martin Filler
    More or Less
    The New Republic, June 19, 2000, pp. 36-40
  32. On Architecture: Art and Hand
    Martin Filler
    New York's American Folk Art Museum is beautiful, economical, and well-suited to the ar...
    The New Republic, January 14, 2002, pp. 27-29
  33. On Architecture: Back to Babel
    Martin Filler
    The disappointing pageant of architects at Ground Zero
    The New Republic, February 3, 2003, pp. 23-26
  34. On Architecture: Eyes on the Prize
    Martin Filler
    For twenty years, the Pritzker Prize has made architects into celebrities. But what has...
    The New Republic, April 26, 1999, pp. 86-93
  35. On Architecture: Into the Void
    Martin Filler
    Whatever its intentions, Daniel Libeskind's profound and disturbing Jewish Museum in Be...
    The New Republic, October 1, 2001, pp. 26-30
  36. On Architecture: Lives of the Modern Architects
    Martin Filler
    The New Republic, June 21, 1999, pp. 32-35
  37. On Architecture: Mies and the Mastodon
    Martin Filler
    Two retrospectives of the work of Mies van der Rohe admire him too much
    The New Republic, August 6, 2001, pp. 25-29
  38. On Architecture: More Than Zero
    Martin Filler
    How not to rebuild the site of the World Trade Center
    The New Republic, September 9, 2002, pp. 31-34
  39. On Architecture: The Cultivator
    Martin Filler
    Frederick Law Olmsted, and what Witold Rybczynski doesn't understand about him
    The New Republic, November 15, 1999, pp. 29-34
  40. On Architecture: The Interventionist
    Martin Filler
    Carlo Scarpa, the greatest unknown architect of the twentieth century
    The New Republic, August 9, 1999, pp. 31-35
  41. On Architecture: The Spirit of '76
    Martin Filler
    How Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, and Denise Scott Brown destroyed the dogmas of modernism
    The New Republic, July 9, 2001, pp. 32-37
  42. Our New Tower in London
    Martin Filler
    The New York Review of Books, April 8, 2010, p. 36
  43. [+]
    The Powerhouse of the New (8 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, by Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman, and Benj...
    1. Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity by Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman, and Benjamin Buchloh, ...
    2. Gunta Stolzl: Bauhaus Master by Gunta Stolzl
    3. Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design by Ulrike Muller
    4. The Bauhaus Group by Nicholas Fox Weber
    5. Bauhaus Conflicts 1919-2009 by Philipp Oswalt
    6. Kandinsky by Vivian Endicott Barnett and Christian Derouet, ...
    7. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy by Ingrid Preiffer, Max Hollein, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, ...
    8. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: The Photograms by Renate Heyne, Floris M. Neususs, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, ...
    The New York Review of Books, June 24, 2010, pp. 24-27
  44. [+]
    Prince of the City (4 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Philip Johnson: Life and Work, by Franz Schulze
    1. Philip Johnson: Life and Work by Franz Schulze
    2. Philip Johnson: The Glass House by David Whitney, Jeffrey Kipnis, and Philip Johnson, ...
    3. The Oral History of Modern Architecture by John Peter
    4. Philip Johnson: The Architect in His Own Words by Hilary Lewis, John T. O'Connor, and Philip Johnson, ...
    The New York Review of Books, December 22, 1994, pp. 46-50
  45. A Reporter At Large
    Martin Filler
    The Museum Game
    The New Yorker, April 17, 2000, pp. 96-105
  46. [+]
    Tall Stories (2 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered, by Ada Louise Huxtable
    1. The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered by Ada Louise Huxtable
    2. Ada Louise Huxtable: An Annotated Bibliography by Lawrence Wodehouse
    The New York Review of Books, December 5, 1985, pp. 11-18
  47. [+]
    Thoroughly Modern Master (9 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Towards a New Architecture, by Le Corbusier
    1. Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
    2. The Villas of Le Corbusier, 1920-1930 by Tim Benton
    3. The Journey to the East by Le Corbusier and Ivan Zaknic
    4. The Le Corbusier Guide by Deborah Gans
    5. Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms by William J.R. Curtis
    6. Le Corbusier by H. Allen Brooks and Le Corbusier
    7. Le Corbusier by Brian Brace Taylor
    8. Le Corbusier by Geoffrey H. Baker
    9. The Decorative Art of Today by Le Corbusier
    The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1987, pp. 49-58
  48. [+]
    Up in the Park (Review)
    Martin Filler
    Designing the High Line, by James Corner and Ricardo Scofidio
    1. Designing the High Line by James Corner and Ricardo Scofidio
    The New York Review of Books, August 13, 2009, pp. 12-14
  49. [+]
    Wright in Love (8 Reviews)
    Martin Filler
    Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, by Jane King Hession and Debrra Pickrel
    1. Frank Lloyd Wright in New York by Jane King Hession and Debrra Pickrel
    2. Frank Lloyd Wright: Essential Texts by Robert Twombly and Frank Lloyd Wright
    3. The Fellowship by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman
    4. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
    5. Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
    6. A Photographer's Journey with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson by Pedro E. Guerrero
    7. Death in a Prairie House by William R. Drennan
    8. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
    The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2008, pp. 60-63
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