Author: ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
Title: Architectural Review - Volumes CXIX (Issues 709-713, Jan to June 1956) and CXX (Issues 714-719, July to December 1956) - 11 issues bound together [the April issue was never published because of a printers' strike]
Description: London, Architectural Press 1956 360pp, 440pp, numerous colour and bw illustrations, covers present and bound in. 32x27, half bound in leather over marbled boards, glt bands and text A bit of wear to the leather, contents very good indeed. Articles include Oxford Relieved, with extensive coverage of the saga of the Christ Church Meadow Relief Road [rumour has it that a 1956 Cabinet meeting had two items on the agenda: this, and the 'crisis in the Suez' - in that order...], Buckminster Fuller, Chicago's place in the Modern Movement by Colin Rowe, and finally Nairn's Counter Attack against Subtopia in the final issue of the year. [heavy item, will require additional postage to some destinations]

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