Five men. Five countries. One century of buildings that changed how humanity lives.

This collection brings together five complete, full-length 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 ebooks cost $19.95. Together in this collection: $12.99.

INSIDE THE COLLECTION

1. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawing the Line

America's most famous architect — and its most scandalous. Fallingwater 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 biographies, not excerpts or summaries — 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

- Read anywhere: EPUB format for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and every major reading app

- Save $6.96 against buying the five ebooks 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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