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1929, 1931,1937, 1942, 1951. First editions. Softcover. Group of four publications and one typed manuscript of the Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (C.I. A.M.)
1929: II. Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne. Frankfurt/Main. 1929. 3 (1)pp. Typed manuscript of the program for the second day of the congress: Criticism and modification of existing regulations, in order to meet the minimum housing requirements. Summary of the points to be discussed, based on the questionaire Nr. 11. The regulations for the right to build are discussed in regards to two groups: a) professionals approved by the state and b) all those who adhere to the regulations. Text in French. Light wear and sunning along edges. Protected by modern mylar.
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1931: Giedion, S.; Internationale Kongresse für Neues Bauen (ed.). Rationelle Bebauungsweisen (Rational Architecture). Frankfurt/Main. Englert & Schlosser. 1931. First edition. Quarto. 209 (3)pp. Original illustrated stiff wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Cover design by Max Bill. Results of the third International Congress for New Architecture, Brussels, November 1930. Illustrated with fifty-six architectural proposals with numerous illustrations, layouts and architectural plans. Contributions by Böhm-Kaufmann (Frankfurt), S. Giedion (Zurich), W. Gropius (Berlin), Le Corbusier (Paris), R. J. Neutra (Los Angeles) and Karel Teige (Prague). First attempt to examine the productivity of various architectural styles: flat-roofed building, midlevel and superstructure architecture, including mixed architectural styles.
The fifty-six architectural proposals in this publication include architectural plans and b/w photographs as well as specification relating to social assignment, living elements, traffic, available building plots, number of apartments, habitable living area, price of land, etc. and built in various European countries. Contains list of architects delegated to the congress and two pages of advertisement of architectural publications at rear. Inside back cover with ad for publication of publisher. Text in German and French. Wraps with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Starting at title page with stamp of previous owner in upper right corner, Heinrich La Roche, Architekt. Very light foxing of title page. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.
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1937: Urbanisme 37 - 5e Congrès CIAM Paris 1937: Logis et Loisirs. Paris. Éditions de L'Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui 1937. First edition Quarto. 118 (2)pp. Original wraps illustrated with photomontage and b/w lettering on cover, black on spine, protected by modern mylar. Contains first and second basic report on principal solutions in city planing by Le Corbusier and José Luis Sert, Spanish architect and city planner. CIAM (International Congress for Modern Architecture) was founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959. It was focusing on architectural issues such as landscape, urbanism, industrial design and others.
With contributions by various architects (Helena Syrkus, Poland, Virgile Bierbauer, Hungary), engineers (P. Lenoir, J.-P. Faure), politicians (Stanislas Tolwinski, Colonel Vauthier), economists (Francis Delaisi), among others, and collective presentations by groups from the Netherlands, England, Italy, Algeria and Hungary. Reports by commissions: 1. Principle Solutions, 2. City Applications, and 3. A Proposal to address the problems of the countryside (Rural town planning) at rear. The volume is illustrated with some in-text drawings, plans and diagrams. Text in French. Light wear along edges of wraps with light staining on back cover. Block age-toned, uncut and unopened at top edge. Good+ condition.
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1942: Sert, José Luis. Can Our Cities Survive? an ABC of urban problems, their analysis, their solutions. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1942. First edition. Oblong Quarto. xi (i), 259pp. Original gray cloth with bright red lettering on cover and spine, in original dustjacket with photomontage on cover, black lettering on spine. Publisher's Note: "Laymen as well as architects will find this ABC of city planning a most stimulating volume because it attacks the problems of the modern city from an entirely new angle. Mr. Sert points out that our cities have probably changed more during the past century than in any equal span before and that even greater changes will be required in the immediate future as a result of war and postwar developments."
The volume addresses the modern city and its problems, dwelling as the first urban function, the requirements of dwelling areas, recreation on weekends and during vacation, the workplaces in the city, means of production of urban structures, transportation, the main barriers to large-scale planning, the planned action to save our cities and the aims and and the statutes of the C.I.A.M. The publication is illustrated with b/w reproduction of photographs, architectural plans and drawings, maps and diagrams and reproductions of artwork throughout. Contains list of illustrations at front and index at rear. Dustjacket with some medium size chips along edges and rubbed. Binding and block lightly age-toned. Good- to very good condition.
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1951: S. Giedion (ed.). A Decade of New Architecture. Zurich. Editions Girsberger. 1951. First edition. Quarto. viii, 232pp. Original gray cloth with white and red lettering on cover in illustrated dustjacket with photomontages. "In this publication the International Congress for Modern Architecture (CIAM) founded 1928, present an overall picture of the work leading architects from 23 countries. It gives for the first time a true picture of contemporary architecture during 10 difficult years 1937–1947." (Publisher).
Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs, architectural drawings and plans this volume contains contributions from distinguished architects and designers, e.g. Le Corbusier, A. van Eyck, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Max Bill, Moholy Nagy, E. Saarinen, A. Aalto, C. Eames, Keck & Tague, , Richard Neutra, Mies van der Rohe and many others. The topics covered in this volume are the postwar activities of CIAM, sculpture, equipment row houses, working places, public buildings, educational buildings, exhibition buildings, hospitals, communications and urban planning. Contains list of CIAM delegates at rear. Text in French and English. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, small chips, light creasing and lightly rubbed. Dustjacket in good+, binding and interior in very good condition. good - to very good condition / very good. Item #48665
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