The Architect-Designers of the Modern World (5-Audiobook Collection)
Five men. Five countries. One century of buildings that changed how humanity lives — now in five complete, unabridged audiobooks.
Five men. Five countries. One century of buildings that changed how humanity lives — now in five complete, unabridged audiobooks.
Five men. Five countries. One century of buildings that changed how humanity lives — now in five complete, unabridged audiobooks.
This collection brings together five full-length audio biographies from Bedtime Biographies: the lives of the architects who invented the modern world, from Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses to Alvar Aalto's wave of birch and light. Bought individually these audiobooks cost $49.95. Together in this collection: $34.99.
INSIDE THE COLLECTION
1. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawing the Line
America's most famous architect — and its most scandalous. Falling water balanced over a waterfall, the spiralling Guggenheim, a career of triumph, fire, murder, bankruptcy, and reinvention that lasted seventy years and never once played safe.
2. Le Corbusier: The Concrete Canvas
The Swiss-French visionary who declared the house "a machine for living" and redrew the modern city in concrete and glass. Visionary, polemicist, painter — the man every modern architect since has either followed or fought.
3. Antoni Gaudí: Curved Lines of Faith
Barcelona's saintly eccentric, who took his lines from trees, bones, and waves and poured his faith into stone. The Sagrada Família, Park Güell, Casa Batlló — and a life that ended as humbly as his buildings soared.
4. Oscar Niemeyer: Shaping the Horizon
The Brazilian who bent concrete into curves, built an entire capital city — Brasília — out of empty savanna, and kept designing past his hundredth birthday. Communism, exile, and the most joyful modernism ever built.
5. Alvar Aalto: The Wave Maker
Finland's beloved master of warmth — the sanatorium built around its weakest patient, the library with a ceiling like a wave, the vase on a million tables. The architect who taught cold modernism to bend around the human body.
WHY THIS COLLECTION
- Five complete, unabridged audiobooks — dozens of hours of listening, each a full-length life, cradle to grave
- The complete arc of modern architecture in one purchase: Wright's organic revolution, Le Corbusier's concrete manifesto, Gaudí's natural faith, Niemeyer's sculpted cities, Aalto's human warmth
- Listen anywhere: standard MP3 audio that plays on every phone, car, and listening app
- Save $14.96 against buying the five audiobooks individually
From Bedtime Biographies' Mega Biographies series — full-length lives of the people who shaped our world, told completely, vividly, and without fluff.
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