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Published: Zurich, Orell Fussli, (Schaubücher 14)
Date: 1929.
Description: 20pp text + 86 plates. Bound in at back is a 16pp catalogue of the firm's famous 'Schaubücher' series, all illustrated. (The series included some important modernist texts-on US skyscrapers, Soviet revolutionary films etc..) Boards with paste-on pictoral covers, 19x13. A beautiful, immaculate copy of a classic text.
Notes: Giedion was in many ways ‘the historian-advocate par excellence of the modern movement in architecture’ (Martin S James) A significant 1920s work, exploring the spatial qualities of modernist houses.
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Price: £160.00
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