The New Brutalism by Banham (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-Library copy (Bedlington High School) with usual stamps and markings. This copy from the library of Howard Duckworth with his pencil purchase code inscriptions inside front cover and front free endpaper. Classic work of post-war architectural theory and criticism. 196 p. : illus., maps, plans, diagrs. ; 28 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear to jacket edges, spine has been partially 'coloured in', old tape stains to rear endpaper and pastedown, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Condition: Good. 1966. No edition remarks. 196 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth with silver gilt lettering to spine. Black and white photographs and diagrams. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name, large and in felt-tip pen, to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Obvious rubbing and ring marking. Spine noticeably sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Bright red and white dust jacket with black lettering, rubbed corners and spine ends and a one inch rectangle cut away in spine strip, head of spine repaired with cellophane tape. Tight binding, solid red boards with the slighted of rubbing to corners and spine ends, bright black lettering to spine strip, one inch rectangle of sun-fading corresponding to cut away in dust jacket, previous owner's name to front paste down, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red cloth. Corners show some moderate wear, pages lightly thumbed. otherwise very nice, bright and clean cloth, a good binding, clean pages. Dust jacket has three ragged tears at top of spine, inch by quarter inch chip at upper left of front, some moderate wear, light sunfade to spine, modest wear to other corners. otherwise a presentable jacket now protected in a clear cover. A good jacket but on the lower end of good. PHotos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Increasingly rare and very influential 1st US Edition book detailing numerous key Brutalist buildings from around the world, but mostly Europe and the UK in particular. Hardcover book in good condition, including the dust jacket - see photos. Profusely illustrated with photos and plans, including various buildings by Le Corbusier, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling and James Gowan, Denys Lasdun, Basil Spence and Owen Luder, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of Reyner Banham's foundational disquisition on Brutalist architecture presenting, per the liner notes, "a scholarly history of the documentable facts on Brutalism, an eye-witness account of the period and personalities that produced it, and a comparative critique of numerous buildings regardedrightly or wronglyas examples of Brutalist architecture." Explores texts and buildings by an international roster of architects including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, James Stirling, Sir Owen Williams, Louis Kahn, Johannes van den Broke, Vladimir Bodiansky, William G. Howell, Richard Llewelyn-Davies, Denys Lasdun, Sir Basil Spence, Peter Moro, Andre Wogenscky, Atelier 5, Walter Forderer, Sverre Fehn, Oswald Mathias Ungers, Sir Leslie Martin, Vittorio Vigano, Aldo van Eyck, Paul Rudolph, Kiyonori Kikutake, Kunio Mayekawa, and not least, the architects regarded by Banham as the founders of the New Brutalism, Peter and Alison Smithson. Published in 1966 by Karl Kramer as volume 5 of Documents of Modern Architecture, a series edited by Jugen Kramer. 4to, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket designed by Hanns Lohrer, 196 pages, illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Slight bowing to boards. Light rubbing, bumping and chipping to dj, with small closed tears to top edge.