Kenchikufu.


ISHIMOTO, Kikuji. Kenchiku-fu: utsukushiki form no symphonie. 50, [2] ff., chiefly illustrated. 4to, 265 x 189 mm., publisher's boards. Tokyo: Gei-ensha, 1924.

Handsome photographic survey of modernist architecture published by the Bunriha Kenchiku-kai, which was the first and perhaps the most important voice of 'modern' architecture in Japan. Includes works by Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig, Walter Gropius, Josef Hoffmann, Peter Behrens, , Erich Mendelsohn, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

OCLC lists copies at Columbia and CCA and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

Item nr. 167217
Price: $1,250.00

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