THE HEROIC PERIOD OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Allison and Peter Smithson

Allison and Peter Smithson: THE HEROIC PERIOD OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE. NYC: Rizzoli, 1981. First printing. A very good softcover bookin stiff, printed wrappers: very mild edgewear. Former owners signature on FEP, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

8.5 x 11.75 softcover book with 80 pages and many color and b/w reproductions of pages from Architectural journals spanning the range from 1910 to 1933. many rare and unusual examples were assembled by the Smithsons in 1955 and originally presented in the December 1965 issue of Architectural Design.

The Smithson's presented their collected research as a wordless story of the exchange of ideas during the "heroic age of modern architecture," establishing a timeline and a parabolic curve before the aesthetic and ideological compromises of the 1930s polluted modernism's pure first strain. Highly recommended, nonetheless.

Includes work by Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Bijvoet and Duiker, Brinkman and van der Vlugt, A. W. E. Buys, M. Casteels, Pierre Chareau, le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte perriand, De Koninck, R. Doeker, Thero van Doesburg, C. Van eesteren, Gerrit Rietveld, O. Eisler, J. Fischer, B. Fuchs, Ginsberg, Golossov, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Guevrekien, Haesler, harring, Hertlein, Horste, Vilmos Huszar, Joltovsky and kojin, Kharkov, Arthur Korn, Korschev, Kosel, Kranz, Kysela, Leonidov, Van Leusdon, Adolph Loos, Andre Lurcat, Luckhardt, May, Melnikov, Merril, Hannes meyer, Farkas Molnar, JJP Oud, Van Ravestin, LillyReich, Mies van der Rohe, Schneider, Scharoun, Schweizer, Mart Stam,Taut, Terragni, Velikovsky, Vesnin, Welzenbacher and many others.

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