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Edited by Fritz Block “PROBLEME DES BAUENS / Der Wohnbau” (“(Problems of Architecture. Volume I. Residential Building”). Berlin Potsdam, Müller & Kiepenheuer Verlag In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Studienausschuss des Bundes Deutscher Architekten für zeitgemässes Bauen herausgegeben, 1928. Tall 4to in original clothed tan hardcover with lettering in black, no jacket. Endpapers and topedge is orange. 215, (1) pages with 279 illustrations. Very good clean copy of this stylish book with typography by Atelier Ernst Kellner
Essays on the application of rational principles of planning to the design of houses and housing developments. Contributors from the leading architects of the period (Bauhaus): Fritz Schumacher, Alfred Gellhorn, Erna Meyer, Friedrich Paulsen, Richard J. Neutra, Walter Gropius and others. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs and architectural drawings and plans of housing projects, including interiors, by LeCorbusier and Jeanneret, Walter Gropius, Adolf Loos, Richard Neutra, J.J.P. Oud, H. Poelzig, Arthur Scharoun, Bruno Taut, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. List of illustrations and credits at rear at rear. Text in German. –
First edition, 1st printing
