Riesenbauten Nordamerikas
Zürich; Leipzig: Orell Füssli Verlag, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original cloth over pictorial paper covered boards, 24pp (text), 69 photographic plates. Original publisher's order form for the series laid in. A European look at 64 American Skyscrapers by various contemporary architects. Featured, among several more, are: the Woolworth Building (Cass Gilbert), New York Central building [Grand Central Terminal] (Warren & Wetmore) Equitable Life (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, the firm of Ernest.R. Graham, successor to Daniel H. Burnham & Co.), Book Tower in Detroit (Louis Kamper Inc.), the NY Evening Post building (Horace Trumbauer). Included are numerous other buildings by notable American architects in New York, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Miami, and Los Angeles. No. 15 in the "Schaubücher" series on modernist topics. Slight rubbing along edges. Text in German. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. vg. Item #27617
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