History of Modern Architecture (2 volumes, complete, in slipcase).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 868, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Very Good in Very Good DJ, in good slipcase. Item #23900
A serious and original study of the beginnings and development of modernism in which the pictorial aspects are designed to aid in the communication of the author's closely reasoned formulations. Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality illustrations, and it reflects throughout its publisher's conviction that good design is an essential, not superficial, part of bookmaking. Beyond that, it should be emphasized that this work is not another facile cultural tour of modern architecture. It is a serious and original study of the beginnings and development of modernism in which the pictorial aspects are designed to aid in the communication of the author's closely reasoned formulations, rather than to gloss over a lack of substantive content. The set is a translation of the third Italian edition, published in 1966.
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