Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. Covers somewhat fanned and front corners thumbed.; Sixty-seven concise statements, or manifestos, by architects, groups, and collectives explaining their philosophies about architectural design and its purpose in human society. Most of these are definite and strongly stated by Henry van de Veld, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Erich Mendelsohn, Hannes Meyer, Theo van Doesburg, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, El Lissitzky, R. Buckminster Fuller, and a host of other lesser known but influential, modernist architects during 1903 to 1963. Taken together, these form a subjective history of the explosion of diverse modernist styles and the personalities that conceived them. Selected and edited by Elrich Conrads, an influential German critic of architecture and urban planning. Essential for the devotee of modernism or architect wanting to know the thoughts that shaped this movement. This trade paperback is clean and in Very Good- condition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

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Bookseller: 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1035
Title: Programs and Manifestos on 20th-Century Architecture
Author: Conrads, Elrich, editor
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date Published: 1971
Keywords: Architects, Modernism, Modernist Architecture
Bookseller catalogs: Architecture;

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