Hardcover
1983 · Cambridge, Mass
by Geist, Johann Friedrich
Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1983. Hardcover. Good+ (foxing spots to top edge, dust jacket faded, interior clean and tight.. Black cloth covered boards with white lettering on spine, illustrated dust jacket, 596 pp, profusely illustrated with bw illustrations. Arcades opens with an account of the architectural and social history of the arcade and a discussion of its typological development. The core of the book is a descriptive catalog of nearly 300 arcades, listed alphabetically by city, and illustrated with some 200 plans and drawings and 265 photographs. Many of these arcades remain standing today, whether in restored or modified form. Most of the (truncated)