The Architecture of The Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Drexler, Arthur (editor)

New York: The Museum of Modern Art / The MIT Press, 1975. Hardcover. Dark turquoise cloth with gilt letters on spine & front cover; duotone glossy illustrated dust jacket. 525 pp., with 401 illustrations, including 12 color gatefolds. G+ (DJ has changed color along outer spine & is corner clipped;minor cut in DJ at foot end that carries superficially into spine; minor shelfwear on spine ends and board ends; page margins are tanning lightly; light foxing on text block; very minor folding on some page corners at foot end; pages are clean and binding is tight; text and illus. are good.). Item #104083
ISBN: 9780870702440

"An opportunity to re-examine the philosophy of the Beaux-Arts school of architecture, whose two-hundred-year history culminated in the body of ideas and buildings against which the modern movement rebelled. ... This book reproduces, in more than 200 drawings, projects for the Grand Prix and for virtually every other type of competition or assignment at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. ... All illustrations are accompanied by extensive explanatory captions, and a selection of important larger studies appear on specially inserted gatefolds, enabling the reader to view them in unusually clear and precise detail." (dj) Contains four thematic and illustrated essays, and then follows with a chronicle of Beaux-Arts Buildings in France and America, as well as a list of architects and their works.