Author: Leopold Eidlitz
Title: The Nature and Function of Art More Especially of Architecture
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Cloth. A scarce edition of this study of art and architecture by American architect, Leopold Eidlitz. Scarce work. A detailed study of the present condition of architecture, with commentary on taste, reasoning, styles, fashions, materialism, aesthetics, beauty, imitation, as well as form and construction. Written by Leopold Eidlitz, an American architect best known for his work on the New York State Capital, and a number of other buildings across the state. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Nature Function Art Architecture Function None


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