BRAZIL BUILDS
ARCHITECTURE NEW AND OLD 1652-1942
Philip L. Goodwin
Philip L. Goodwin: BRAZIL BUILDS. ARCHITECTURE NEW AND OLD 1652-1942. NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1943. Second edition, revised. Quarto. Text in Portuguese and English. A near-fine hardcover book in full, decorated cloth without the dustjacket: endpapers lightly spotted. Ownership signature of TAC Partner Norman Fletcher on FEP, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and very uncommon. 8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 200 pages with 300 b/w illustrations and 4 color plates. Photographs by G.E. Kidder Smith. Very uncommon and important text in the history of international architecture, covering Brazil, 1652-1942. Well-illustrated and covering domestic, civil and industrial architecture. Black and white photos and sometimes plans and diagrams for all the structures as well as portrait photos of leading architects. BRAZIL BUILDS highlights the missionary zeal that the Museum of Modern Art bought to the evolving modernist dialogue in America during the closing days of World War II.
Includes work by Rodrigo Mello Franco de Andrade, Pavalo Camargo Almeida, Saturnino Nunes de Brito, Roberto Burle-Marx, Atilio Correa Lima, Luico Costa, Carlos Frederico Ferreira, Dr. Nestor E. de Figueiredo, Carlos Leao, Rino Levi, Ademar Marinho, Henrique E. Mindlin, Jorge Moreira, Oscar Niemeyer, Jose Norberto, Jacques Pilon, Carlos Henrique de Oliveira Porto, Afonso Reidy, Marcelo Roberto, Milton Roberto, Bernard Rudofsky, Aldary Henriques Toledo, Alvaro Vital Brazil, and Gregori Warchavchik.
I donšt think the people at MoMA got the memo about war-time paper and cloth shortages, because BRAZIL BUILDS is an exceptionally lavish production, with full decorated cloth, glossy paper and even some 4-color reproductions. This book even cost $5.00 new in 1943 -- quite a sum in those days. BRAZIL BUILDS feels like as much of a diplomatic gesture as it does a contemporary architectural monograph. Highly recommended.
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