Author: PIDGEON M (ed)
Title: Architectural Design - Volume 36, 1966 (12 volumes bound together)
Description: London, Standard Catalogue Company 1966 viii, 635pp, some fold-out including map of historic and modern buildings in London, numerous bw ills, couple in colour. 30x24, red cloth, silver and gold text, 12 issues of the journal bound in official binder (no covers present) A little edge wear to bindings, contents very good. Makowsky on three dimensional structures, Karl Schwanzer, Peter Smithson critique of Traffic in Towns (illustrated with a photograph of his own Economist building which appears to be intended to show good practice - the lonely damp figures standing despairing in the rain convey rather the opposite!), Japanese art and its impact on 'place' and architecture, new projects by James Stirling, Frei Otto's pneumatic structures, summary of the excellent publications on housing and slum clearance etc by the Research and Development Group at MHLG with lots of illustrations, Owen Luder's ill-fated Portsmouth Tricorn project, much more. [Heavy item, may require additional postage]

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