Gendai kenchiku daikan
By: Kishida Hideto
Contributors: Rogers, James Gamble, architect; Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969, architect; Moser, Karl, 1860-1936, architect; Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953, architect; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969, architect; Lauterbach, Heinrich, 1893-1973, architect; Terragni, Giuseppe, 1904-1943, architect; Mattè-Trucco, Giacomo, architect; Vedres, Giovanni, architect; Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich, 1885-1953; Graham, Anderson, Probst, White
Publisher: Kôseishya-Shyobô
Published: 1929
Place of publication: [Tokyo, Japan]
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Modern Architecture; Skyscrapers; Domestic Architecture; City halls; Design and construction; Department stores; Church architecture; Exhibition buildings; Theater architecture; Restaurants; Reinforced concrete construction; Industrial Architecture; Industrial buildings; Factories; Fred F. French Building (New York, N.Y.); Bauhaus; Stockholms stadshus (Stockholm, Sweden); Grundtvigskirken (Copenhagen, Denmark); Antoniuskirche (Basel, Switzerland); League of Nations; Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo, Norway); Monument to the Third International (Tatlin, Vladimir Evgrafovich)
Description: Modern industrial architecture featuring buildings in Moscow and Warsaw
Notes: Cover tile

Modern architecture grand view; general survey of modern architecture

Issued in portfolios with loose plates

Avery Classics copy: Volumes [6, 12-14, 17] have 2 copies

Avery Classics copy: Some volumes bear stamps on first pages (volume 6, copy 2; volume 12, copy 2; volume 14, copy 2)

In Japanese with some German
Table of contents: title: [1]. Modern architecture volume 1. Panorama England; title: [2]. America, part 1. New York, Fred French Building - Chanin Building - Chicago, Tribune Tower; title: [3]. America, part 2. Skyscrapers, Manhattan - Columbia-Presybiterian Medical Center, James Gamble Rogers - Civic Opera Building, Chicago, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; title: [4]. Germany, part 1. Weimar Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius and Herberg Bayer - Hat Factory in Luckenwalde by Erich Mendelsohn; title: [5]. Germany, part 2. H. Lauterbach's Wohnhaus - Mies van der Rohe's House and Garden - Leipzig Airfield; title: [6]. Germany, Austria, part 3. Department store Wertheim, Berlin - Drugstore Kopp & Joseph - Exhibition hall Wroclaw 1922-1925; title: [7]. France, part 1; title: [8]. France, part 2; title: [9]. France, part 3; title: [10]. Netherlands, part 1; title: [11]. Netherlands and Belgium, part 2; title: [12]. Scandinavia, part 1. Stockholms stadshus, Grundtvigs Kirke, Heering House, Copenhagen; title: [13]. Scandinavia, part 2. Stockholm exhibition 1930 - Main restaurant Paradiset - Restaurant Skansen, Oslo - Det Nye Teater, Oslo; title: [14]. Switzerland, Czechoslovakia. St. Antonius, Basel, Karl Colestin Moser, League of Nations, Geneva; title: [15]. Italy, Spain. Giuseppe Terragni's Modern apartment building in Como - Giacomo Mattè Trucco's rooftop race and test track, Turin - House by Giovanni Vedres; title: [16]. Russia. Vladimir Tatlin's Monument for the Third International; title: [17]. Russia, Poland, part 2. Industrial architecture featuring buildings in Moscow and Warsaw