| Notes: Near Fine 9" x 11" grey cloth over boards, black lettering to spine, sharp tips, clean, showing no visible shelf wear, clean, tightly bound and unmarked throughout including the fold-out table explaining the symbols used in the margin of the Examples Section. Good pictorial orange and white dustjacket, black lettering to front cover, spine and back cover, closed tears to cover, 3/4" chip from cover, 2" chip from back cover, smaller tears and chips to edges, else clean, intact, not price-clipped and protected by a paper-backed Brodart sleeve. 144pp. replete with black-and-white interior and exterior photographs, floor plans, architectural drawings, and designs, and including an Index of Architects, an Index of Photographers, an Introduction, a Bibliography, a Contents List of Examples, Examples, and sections on Typology of Housing Groups, and Evaluation of Housing Groups. Tri-lingual text is in German, English and French. From the dustjacket: "[The purpose of this book] is to go beyond the narrow confines of housing in systematically cataloguing the architectural and spatial possibilities and stimuli for humane, neighbourly housing areas and in giving a survey of international knowledge and experience backed up by documented examples." Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping. |