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New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1932. Stated first edition (first printing) of the definitive book on this style of Modern architecture: "Those who have buried architecture, whether from a thwarted desire to continue the past of from an over-anxiety to modify and hurry on the future, have been premature: We have an architecture still." Features the work of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Otto Haesler, Pierre Jeanneret, Miës van der Rohe, J.J.P. Oud and more. Though Frank Lloyd Wright was influential among this group, his current work was not deemed 'in the style'; Alvar Aalto has but one building pictured. Hardcover, full brick-red buckram, gilt & black titling. Light general wear, corners lightly rubbed; spine lightly creased, faintly discolored; lacking the scarce jacket; former owner's name on title page; text & plates clean. 240 pages, indexed by architect & country; b/w photo plates, plans.. First Edition. Buckram. Good/No Jacket. 7¾" by… Read more

New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. First Edition . Library Buckram. Very Good +. 4to. An internally crisp, clean, lightly used, Very Good + Michigan Sate University ex-library copy in buckram binding which has a trace of rubbing and soiling. Front pastedown and front free end paper have the usual library markings. No markings to edges. This book and the 1932 companion exhibition and catalogue "Modern Architecture, International Exhibition" published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York were seminal in introducing the "International Style" and modern architecture to the USA. 240 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs and plans, preface by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art, indices of architects and countries represented.