Hardcover
1973 · New York / Washington
by Pehnt, Wolfgang
New York / Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. G (Ex-art library, moderately used/aged overall; with plastic spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket; pages are lightly aged.). Red cloth, white and illus. dust jacket, 232 pp., BW illus. and drawings. This "analysis of Taut, Poelzig, and the visionary architects and ... discussion of such important structures as Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Hoger's Chile House in Hamburg, and the building erected in memory of the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker in Bremen show that the architecture of Expressionism was not a transitory subsidiary fad but an important and consistent deelopment in the total history of architectural styles." (dj).
(Inventory #: 157608)