Konrad Gatz [Editor] with translation from the German by E. Erber: MODERN ARCHITECTURAL DETAILING / VOLUME 2. New York City: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1965. First English Edition [Published in Germany by Verlag Architektur + Baudetail GmbH, Møunchen, 1965]. Text in English. Quarto. Charcoal cloth titled in white. Printed dust jacket. 284 pp. 40 color plates. 500 halftone reproductions and line art details. Dust jacket with fore edge wear includes a 1-inch by .5-inch chip missing from the top fore edge of the front cover, a 1.5-inch tear along the front fold's seam, a 1-inch vertical tear along the bottom of the jacket's spine, and three yellowed tape reinforcements on the back of the dust jacket. Owner's black stamp on both FEPs. A signature [pages 78-86] is slightly loose at the top. A nearly fine copy in a good or better dust jacket.
9.25 x 12 softcover book with 284 pages and 500 black-and-white illustrations and 40 color plates. The uninspired dust jacket belies the amazing contents of this volume. From the publisher: ". . . this pictorial survey of architecture presents a selection of outstanding examples from the German periodical "Detail — Zeitschrift für Architektur und Baudetail [Founded 1961], which is devoted entirely to the subject of detailing . . . . The volume is divided into three sections: details of structures and external works; details of interiors and fittings; and 'unity of detail'."
Featured artists, architects, and designers from Germany, Japan, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and the United States include Ico Parisi, Felix M. Warburg, Franz Richter and Heinz Wilke, AGIP Techical Dept., Masachika Murata and Assoc., Kazuo Shinohara, Mario Salvadé, Aris Konstantinides, Marcel Maeder and Karl Brueggemann, Carlo Rusconi, Hartwig Damm, Ronald Ward and Partners, Joachim Schuermann, George Matsumoto, Ole Hagen, F. W. de Vlaming and M. Salm, Erik Lanter, Torben Christensen, King and Lewis, Powell and Moya, Fritz Trautwein, Salling-Mortensen, Justus Dahinden, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Walter Schilling, Heinz Rall and Hans Röper, H. Deilmann, Wolfgang Windbrechtinger and Traude Windbrechtinger, Walter Leitner, W. Forrer, C. and R. Rami, Attilio Mariani and Carol Perogalli, Daniel Giradet, Kurt Ackermann, Rodolfo Carabelli, Gian Angelini, Fiederling and Lindan, Rolf Gutbier, Hans Kammerer and Walter Belz, Josef Oberberger, Hermann Baur, Fritz Kuehn, H. C. Horst Linde, Hans Junghanns, Schaer and Steiner, Addor and Juilliard, G. Forti and C. Magni, Bassetti and Morse, Gigi Cho, G. Behnisch and B. Lambart, A. Bregler, F. W. Kraemer, Alfred reich, J. Schaeder. Hans Hubacher, Karl Gergmann, Russel Diplock, W. Custer, Studio Heinz Neumann, Heinrich Raderschall, James Rose, Joachim Winkler, Jean Challet, Pierre Mas and Claudio Verdugo, Reinhold Grubl and Ingram Spengler, H. and C. W. Schilling, Wolf Molitor, Georges Addor, A. Gigon, J. C. de Crousaz, Jakib Zwiefel, Johanna Kuenzli, Vittorio Delpino, Giorgio Ramponi, W. Ulfig, Robert Reutter, Franz Pfefferer, Remo Macchi, Bernasconi, Fiocchi, and Nizzoli, Melchiorre Rega, Rolf Störmer, Otto Mayr, Eduardo Detti, Borje Rajalin, Ole Helweg and Borge Glahn, Riexingert and Bau-ing, Behnisch, Lambart and Eisele, Franz Fueg, Gass and Boos, Kooperativa Foerbundets, Hans Schumacher, Robert Reuter, Hans Schiek, Walter Bernstein, Alfred Frei, Reinhard Gieselmann, Eduardo Gellner, Paul Schneider-Esleben, Förderer, Otto, Zwimpfer, Kemeny, and François Stahly among others.
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