Built in USA: Post-war Architecture
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Arthur Drexler (Editors)
The Museum of Modern Art, 1952

Hardcover | 7-1/4 x 10 inches | 128 pages | 190 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1199554352 | $7.50

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
This book is the Museum of Modern Art's report on the best of American architecture today. Private houses, skyscrapers, schools, a hospital, a retail store, a chapel and a stadium are among the 43 buildings amply illustrated by plans and photographs.
With the mid-century modern architecture has come of age, and American architecture in particular has come to occupy a position of special prominence in the world. The qualities that have brought our building to this preeminent position are reviewed in an introductory essay by Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock, America's leading historian of modern architecture. Arthur Drexler, Curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Architecture and Design, has provided a critical text appraising individual buildings for their stature as works of art and for their significance in the development of American architecture. REFERRAL LINKS:
 

dDAB COMMENTARY:
In Thomas Hines's Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art: The Arthur Drexler Years, 1951-1986, which I reviewed a couple days ago, the author delves into some detail on a few of the exhibitions curated by Drexler in his three-and-a-half-decade tenure at MoMA. One of these exhibitions, Built in USA: Post-war Archit...