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City Planning Housing. Volume III: A Graphic Review of Civic Art 1922-1937

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A bright, well-preserved copy of Werner Hegemann’s monumental visual survey of interwar planning and housing, documenting the evolution of civic design between the City Beautiful era and the emergence of modern urbanism. Oversize hardcover (12.25” x 16.25”), pictorial dust jacket, 162 pages, b/w illustrations. Edited by William W. Forster and Robert C. Weinberg and with a forward by Sir Raymond Unwin. Published in 1938 by Architectural Book Publishing Company. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, aerial views, housing schemes, exhibition proposals, and comparative studies from Europe and the United States, including material relating to New York, Washington, the 1939 World's Fair, Scandinavian housing developments, and Soviet planning experiments. Showcasing work by J.J.P. Oud, Eliel Saarinen, Ernst May, William Lescaze, Henry Wright, and a host of lesser-known regional architects and town planners. From the working library of architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky, with her ownership notation recording the book as a gift from Robert C. Weinberg, one of its two editors. Although written by Krinsky rather than constituting a formal presentation inscription, the notation preserves a direct line of transmission from a principal participant in the book’s production to a scholar who would become a leading historian of twentieth-century architecture and urbanism. An unusually compelling association copy of an imposing and increasingly elusive architectural publication, retaining its pictorial dust jacket

Creator:
J.J. Pieter Oud (Designer),William Lescaze (Designer),Eliel Saarinen (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 16.25 in (41.28 cm)Width: 12.25 in (31.12 cm)Depth: 0.8 in (2.04 cm)
Style:
International Style (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1930-1939
Date of Manufacture:
1938
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Light bumping to boards with some fraying to bottom edge; gilt titling exceptionally fresh. Dust jacket substantially complete, with mild damp-staining and expected edge chipping and losses at the spine ends and extremities. Contents clean and bright.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU828550581812