"MASTERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE" par John PETER. Editions Bonanza Books & George Braziller, Inc., New York. 1958. Imprimé aux Etats-Unis. in-4, couverture toilée noir & blanc sous jaquette illustrée (état d'usage). 230 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de plus de 225 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, hors texte, de 94 réalisations d'architectes allant d'Alvar Aalto à Minoru Yamasaki, en passant par Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, I.M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright etc...

 

"Architecture is an art for all men to learn, because all are concerned with it. In a sense, it is the universal art: it confronts us on all sides and has probably created more forms than any other single art, especially in our time. ln MASTERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE, such composers of form in space as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Neutra, and more than 60 other world architects, are represented by over 225 vivid reproductions which capture the beauty of the original structures. In a stimulating text, John Peter introduces the masters, their works, and their roles in the development of modern building. In an unusually rewarding section, called "Architects on Architecture," the masters in their own words vividly present the great ideas that changed the course of architecture. Moreover, each work is listed in a special index, including valuable statistics: names of buildings, architects, dates, locations, and details about the construction, each with an identifying photograph."

 

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