The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Midcentury Modern Houses By Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John Johanson, Philip Johnson, Eliot Nyes & Others
EARLS, WILLIAM D. An examination of the midcentury work by these five well-known established architects, remarkably placed amidst the more traditional New England houses in this suburban community. First edition. 25 cm; 173 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in black cloth, lacking the dust jacket.- $95
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Modern Building: Its Nature, Problems, and Forms
BEHRENDT, WALTER CURT The German architect's essay on the spirit of modern building, its origiins, problems, and forms. Behrendt emigrated from Germany in 1934 and taught at Dartmouth. 23.5 cm; 241 pp.; illustr. from photographs. Covers soiled; contents bright and clean. A good copy in cloth, lacking the dust jacket.- $30
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New Architecture New England
JACOB, EVA Catalog for the 1974 exhibition of modern architecture built in New England from 1963-1974. The lesson here is that if you resist progress long enough and hard enough, you'll get the Brutalism you deserve. 52 examples of work throughout the region, by Stubbins, SOM, Harrison & Abramovitz, Paul Rudolph, Roche & Dinkeloo, Pei, TAC, Kallman, others. First edition. 23 cm; 139 pp.; illustrated. Crease to front cover; else a good copy or better in wrappers.- $35
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Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning 1917-1935
KOPP, ANATOLE A survey of Soviet architecture and planning in the early years of the Russian revolution. First American edition. Oblong 8vo; 274 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in a good dust jacket with some short closed tear with internal tape repairs.- $75
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Finnish Architecture and Alvar Aalto
NEUENSCHWANDER, ED. & CL An early monograph on the Finnish work of Aalto. Text in English, French, and German. First American edition. 27 cm.; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Covers spotted; owner's name; else a good copy in gilt-stamped white cloth, lacking the dust jacket.- $45
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The Architecture of Monuments: The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Competition
CREIGHTON, THOMAS H. & KATHERINE MORROW FORD A study of the competition to design the FDR memorial in Washington DC. in 1960. Entries were mainly of four types: shafts, landscape solutions, structures, and sculptural forms. There were winners and honoroable mentions but the first design by memorial's eventual designer in 1997, Lawrence Halprin (with Yamasaki), wasn't among them. Creighton also discusses the roles of monuments, competitions, architectural solutions, public reaction, etc. Showing work by Ulrich Franzen, AC Partners, Johnson, Weese, Holabird, Kahn, Barnes, Venturi, Birkets, others. Jury members were Belluschi, Thomas Church, Joseph Hudnut, and Paul Rudolph. First edition. 23 cm; 192 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.- $60
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From Chanel to Reves: La Pausa and Its Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art
MESLAY, OLIVIER Catalog for the 2015 exhibition of effects of the Coco Chanel house "La Pausa", and the journey of the Reves collection of art. First wrappers edition. 21.5 cm; 64 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; some ink underlining to one page; else a good copy or better in pictorial wrappers.- $40
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Peter Brandes From Text to Sign: Ornamentation of Roskilde Cathedral, 1
PEDERSEN, JENS Catalog for an exhbition of Brandes's sketches and drawings for ornamentation of the interior of Roskilde Cathedral. Shown here are mainly preperatory works, as mentioned in the discussion between Pedersen and Brandes. First edition. 32 cm; 139 pp.; illustrated from photographs and from drawings by Brandes. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket.- $90
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