12 volumes, folio. 1200 plates, (a few double-page, a few hand-colored). Original brown cloth-backed board portfolios, cloth ties (some light wear or soiling, a few hinges starting).

 

FIRST EDITION, a complete set of this significant survey of modernist architecture, with a profusion of photographic reproductions, drawings, and floor plans of office buildings, industrial buildings, hotels, theatres, train stations, airports, retail stores, universities, monuments, and private residences in various countries. This survey features works by leading twentieth-century European architects and designers including Elsaesser, Freyssinet, Laprade, Le Corbusier, Luckhardt, Mallet-Stevens, Neutra, Pacon, Perret, Roux-Spitz, Ruhlmann, Siclis, and van der Velde.