ARTS & ARCHITECTURE 1950 Magazine 12 Issue Reprint Taschen Box Set New

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture: emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated low-cost materials and modern design. This trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, which was championed by the era's leading American journal, Arts & Architecture. Focusing not only on architecture but also design, art, music, politics, and social issues, A&A was an ambitious and groundbreaking publication, largely thanks to the inspiration of John Entenza, who ran the magazine for over two decades until David Travers became publisher in 1962. The era's greatest architects were featured in A&A, including Neutra, Schindler, Saarinen, Ellwood, Lautner, Eames, and Koenig; and two of today's most wildly successful architects, Frank Gehry and Richard Meier, had their debuts in its pages. A&A was instrumental in putting American architecture? And in particular California Modernism?

Other key contributors to the magazine include photographers Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller, writers Esther McCoy and Peter Yates, and cover designers Herbert Matter and Alvin Lustig, among many luminaries of modernism. This collection comes with ten boxes, each containing a complete year's worth of Arts & Architecture magazines from 1945 to 1954. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE BOX SETS Year 1950 with 12 Issues in New Condition. This box set is in New Unsealed Condition- shrink wrap has opening along one edge yet all magazines are new unread & unused.

This TASCHEN publication was limited to 5,000 copies in 2008 and is out of print, scarce & one of a kind. It provides a comprehensive record of midcentury American architecture and brings the legendary Arts & Architecture back to life after 40 years.

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