Rare and Unusual Books

Published: Berlin, Bauwelt-Verlag,
Date: 1935.
Description: vii, 432pp incl many photos, plans etc; 144pp on city planning, incl drawings, plans etc plus 38pp technical sheets of instructions for arranging various room and building types: garages, offices, guest-houses, dining rooms, wardrobes etc. Cloth. 33x24. Cloth very grubby, worn on corners and split on hinges. Internally good and tight, apart from pp i-vi creased and pp5-8 in city planning section, which is loose.
Notes: Interesting Nazi-era publication on various kinds of building: town and country houses, museums, churches, guest-houses, industrial building etc. There are sections on major buildings: Tannenberg Memorial, Deutsches Festspielhaus etc. Architects include Neufert, Poelzig, Scharoun, Ostrowski. City planning section includes work in the Soviet Union, UK, Copenhagen, Tokyo etc, as well as in Germany.
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Price: £50.00