Author: Rogers Ernesto N., Jose Luis Sert & Jacqueline Tyrwhitt. (eds).
Title: Il cuore della città: per una vita più umana delle comunità.
Description: Milano, Hoepli Eritore, 1954. XII,183 pp. Num. ills (views, plans, drawings, etc.), chiefly in b./w. Orig. hardcover (white & black lettered / dec. brown boards), d./j. - Cover, first & last pages & edges with some foxing (as often). - The dust jacket has larger and smaller damage along the edge (among other things missing on the front is a piece in the lower right corner (approx. 250 square mm) and some smaller pieces along the top edge (these have been repaired with pieces of paper).Rare publication with an introduction by Le Cornbusier. Complete with the very rare dust jacket. Unfortunately the dust jacket is in damaged condition. Copies with undamaged dust jackets are very rare and valuable. - Includes illustrated articles on city planning by by Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, J. B. Bakema, and many others. Text in Italian. - - Issued by CIAM: Congressi Internazionali di Architettura Moderna (or: Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne, or: International Congresses of Modern Architecture). - - The organization CIAM was founded in 1928 and dissolved in 1959. CIAM was responsible for a series of congresses and events organized throughout Europe under the direction of the most eminent architects of the time. Its aim was to spread the principles of the modern movement, targeting all major domains of architecture (such as urban planning, landscape, industrial design, etc.).

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