Built in USA Since 1932
by Mock, Elizabeth, Editor
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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About This Item
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1945. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very informative treatise on the status of modern architecture in the USA between 1932-44. A crisp, clean, somewhat age-toned Very Good copy in a Fair dust jacket missing the spine and a large piece at the top of the back cover, all now protected by a mylar cover. Includes work by Gregory Ain, Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, Louis Kahn, Mies Van Der Rohe, George Howe, VG/Fair Harwell Hamilton Harris, Philip Johnson, William Lescaze, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Rapheal Soriano, Skidmore and Owings and many more. Includes a biographical index of all the contributors and a chronological listing of all of the Architectural Exhibitions and Publications of the MOMA to date. A great reference work for the modern architecture movement.
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- Bookseller
- modern-ISM
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012780
- Title
- Built in USA Since 1932
- Author
- Mock, Elizabeth, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1945
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Modern Architecture, Architecture, Gregory Ain, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Harwell Hamilton Harris, George Howe, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, William Lescaze, Mies Van Der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen, Louis Skidmore, Raphael Soriano, Frank Lloy
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- Architecture;
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About modern-ISM
On-line with emphasis on architecture, art and design. Classics also included.
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