Built in USA: Post-war architecture

Used copy. Published in 1952 by The Museum of Modern Art. First edition.

This book is the Museum of Modern Art's report and exhibition catalog on mid-century American architecture. Private houses, skycrapers, schools, a hospital, a retail store, a chapel and a stadium are among the 43 buildings illustrated by plans and photographs. The qualities that have brought these buildings to preeminent position are reviewed in an introductory essay by historian of modern architecture and Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Arthur Drexler, at the time Curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of ARchitecture and Design, has provided a critical text appraising individual buildings for their stature as works of art and for their significance in the development of American architecture.

Edited by Henry-Russell and Arthur Drexler
26 X 19.5 cm, 128 pages

*In good condition. Dust jacket and pages yellowed with ageing. Illustrations in black & white. Pictures of actual book.