Author: [KOOLHAAS, REM & TEUN KOOLHAAS]. Catalogue 1974-1975.
Title: Le volume bleu et jaune. [Exposition] Villa Medicis. [On frontcover: Rome 1972-1974].
Description: [Rome, 1974]. 381 pp. Num. b./w. ills & 10 col. plts (incl. 9 tipped-in plts). Orig. softcover (pictorial wrappers). - [ADDED]: rare official newspaper of this exhibition Le volume bleu et jaune. L'espace, notre milieu d'évolution.', printed by Zichieri in Paris, [1975] (4 pages wit French text. Monochrome ills. Folded). - The newspaper is sl. foxed; cover of the catalogue has light shelfwear on the edges. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Villa Medici June 21 - July 14, 1974, and the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais à Paris, March 15, 1975 - May 5, 1975. - Published in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies (no. 1024). With four official stamps of the exhibition. -Text in French and Italian. - This copy is dedicated (in pen & ink by an unknown hand) to Teun Koolhaas, his wife Koosje Koolhaas, his daughter Betje and his uncle Rem Koolhaas, dated Paris le 09.03.1979. - - This book documents a project carried out in the Villa Medici in Rome during the years 1972 - 1974. This project was carried out by four students who studied one room in the Italian villa over a period of two years with particular emphasis on the effect of light from one window in this room.

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