Search Results: in search of a living architecture by frey albert

Santa Monica: Hennessey+Ingalls, 1999. Soft cover. Near fine/No jacket. Facsimile of the 1939 edition of "In Search of a Living Architecture," originally published by Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., New York. 1,000 copies printed. Spiral-bound. In cardboard box. Excellent condition. No visible flaws apart from light shelf-wear on box. Book itself has no visible flaws. Covers and inside are clean and unmarked.

Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1999. Reprint . Soft cover. As New. Oblong 8vo. As New, still in the publisher's pictorial cardboard box. Includes invitation to Frey exhibit at UCSB Art Museum March 8- Apri 19, 1992. 95 pp., profusely illustrated. Includes photos of work by Richard Neutra in Los Angeles (V.D.L. Research House), Van Pelt and Lind, Architects in Palm Springs; John Porter Clark in Palm Springs; A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey in New York; Ataria and Schmidt, Hubacher and Steiger, M. E. Haefli, W. M. Moser, and Roth Architects in Zurich; and Gavin Hadden in New York.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., 1939. 95 pp. 20 x 27 cm. Illustrated stiff card covers with black titling; illustrated. Moderate age toning to covers, with a few light splash marks and some rubbing and light wear to corners of covers. Some light dampstaining to bottom corner of text block, seeping in only 6 mm at its deepest, with some faint age toning to extremities of pages. A nice copy of an exceptionally scarce work on architecture. . First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc, 1939. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Raised and trained in Switzerland and having worked for Le Corbusier, Albert Frey (1903-1998) was closely identified with Palm Springs, California, and what was known as "Desert Modernism." In this scarce, heavily illustrated volume Frey uses the natural landscape, dwellings built by early peoples, urban planning ideas, and the industrial landscape to demonstrate his theories on architecture. First Printing. 95 pp. Oblong 4to. Stiff brown card covers with stadium and canyon images printed on front cover. Light scuffing but remarkably clean given its age and spiral binding. Sharp within.