Modern architectural history indices

This repository contains digitized indices from several architectural history texts:

• toward-an-architecture.json

  Le Corbusier, Toward an Architecture, introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen, translation by John Goodman, The Getty Research Institute, 2007.

  The introduction by Jean-Louis Cohen is on pages 1-77, inclusive.

• theory-and-design-in-the-first-machine-age.json

  Reyner Banham, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Second Edition, MIT Press, 1980.

• histories-of-the-immediate-present.json

  Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism, MIT Press, 2008.

Only entries for proper nouns are included.

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Each JSON file contains a dictionary, where each key is an entry in the book's index and the associated value is a list of the pages on which the key appears. Pages refer to the specific editions listed above.

For example, the first five entries from theory-and-design-in-the-first-machine-age.json are:

• "Abraham, Pol": [31]
• "Albers, Josef": [283, 313]
• "Alberti, L-B": [159]
• "Alfeld, Fagus factory": [21, 79, 84]
• "Amsterdam, the Beurs": [140, 163]

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The dataset is available for scholarly and educational use only. The user of the dataset assumes full responsibility for its use.