The Tragedy of Detroit, a picture essay. In original worn stapled wraps as issued. Complete issue. “Detroit today is a genuinely fearsome-looking place. Most of the neighborhoods appear to be the victims of bombardment – houses burned and vacant, buildings crumbling, whole city blocks overrun with weeds and the carcasses…
Lissitzky’s classic in architectural and planning theory. With an appendix of excerpted writings by his contemporaries such as M. J. Ginzburg, P. Martell, Bruno Taut, Ernst May, M. Ilyin, Wilm Stein, Martin Wagner, Hannes Meyer, Hans Schmidt, and others, all of whom illuminate the architecture and planning of Europe and Russia during the 1920s.
Memories of the Watchtowers is part of the series “Architecture of Control” by Joram Raaijmakers and Asmus Lauridsen, an ongoing examination of the form and function of the military guard / watch towers in the context of design and architecture. Two books in slipcase. 74, 76 pp. Illustrated throughout with…