The International Style: Architecture Since 1922. Author: HITCHCOCK, Henry-Russell, Jr. And Philip JOHNSON Title: The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 Publication: New York: W. 82 full-page photographs of contemporary buildings, accompanied by plans. Nickerson pencil inscription dated Sept. 11 1934 on front free endpaper, possibly a descendent of Samuel M. A near-fine copy with a few small areas of discoloration to cloth, in a very good price-clipped jacket with losses at ends of spine and at lower rear panel. FIRST EDITION of this seminal book on Modernist architecture, designed by Werner Helmer. The book illustrates buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, J. Oud, Mies van der Rohe, Raymond M. Hood, Howe & Lescaze, Richard J. Neutra, and other architects. It was published on the occasion of MoMA’s exhibition “Modern Architecture, International Exhibition, ” and includes an introduction by the museum’s director Alfred H. [T]he exhibition introduced an emerging architectural style characterized by simplified geometry and a lack of ornamentation; known as the’International Style,’ it was described by Johnson as’probably the first fundamentally original and widely distributed style since the Gothic. The exhibition, along with an accompanying catalogue, laid the principles for the canon of Modern architecture (Arch Daily). Scarce with the dust jacket, in any condition. Subject: Architecture, Decorative Arts, Design, Sale: 35% off. Riverrun Books & Manuscripts. RIVERRUN is located 30 minutes from Midtown Manhattan along the eastern shores of the Hudson River in Ardsley, NY. We currently have over 20,000 volumes in our inventory. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ABAA and ILAB). We are professional booksellers with thirty-years experience specializing in rare, antiquarian, and unusual books & literary manuscripts of all periods, with an emphasis on art, artists books, early printing, fine press, literature, illustrated books, science & technology, and Americana. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
