MODERN ARCHITECTURE U.S.A.
Arthur Drexler
Arthur Drexler: MODERN ARCHITECTURE U.S.A. [PRESENTED BY THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS]. New York City: Museum of Modern Art, 1965. First edition. A very good staple-bound booklet with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including slight creasing and rubbing. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8 x 4.5 staple-bound unpaginated booklet with 69 buildings by approx. 38 architects covering the years 1900 - 1965. Published in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name selected and installed by Arthur Drexler: MoMA, New York City [May 18 - Sept 6, 1965].
"Some buildings are shown because they launched an idea; other because they carried an idea to its conclusion. All of them remind us that architectural excellence has many forms." —Arthur Drexler, from one of the exhibition's wall labels
Architects include Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene, Irving Gill, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Howe and Lescaze, William Lescaze, Harwell Hamilton Harris and Carl Anderson, Alden Dow, John Yeon, Walter Gropius, William Ganster and William Pereira, Philip L. Goodwin, Edward Durell Stone, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto, Philip Johnson, Charles Eames, Bruce Goff, Eric Mendelsohn, Wallace K. Harrison, Harrison and Abramovitz, Eero Saarinen and Assoc., SOM, G. Thomas Harmon, Minoru Yamasaki and Assoc., Edward Larrabee Barnes, Louis I. Kahn, Herb Greene, Bertrand Goldberg Assoc., Paul Rudolph, Geddes, Brecher, Qualls and Cunningham, Sert, Jackson and Gourley, Paolo Soleri, I. M. Pei and Assoc., Curtis and Davis, and Victor Lundy.