INFORMATION
Author / Editor: Taschen
Pages: 696 pages
Format / Binding: Hardcover (Multilingual Edition)
Publication Date: January 11, 2025
Publisher: Taschen
Language: English / Multilingual edition
Dimensions: 12.9 × 10.3 × 1.8 inches (≈ 32.8 × 26.2 × 4.6 cm)
Weight: about 8.0 pounds (≈ 3.63 kg)
INTRODUCTION
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 at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, a blueprint for modern habitation championed by the era’s leading American journal, Arts & Architecture.
The complete facsimile of the ambitious and groundbreaking Arts & Architecture was published by TASCHEN in 2008 as a limited edition. This new curation—directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen—brings together the magazine’s highlights from 1950 to 1954, with a special focus on mid-century American architecture and its luminary pioneers including Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen, and Charles & Ray Eames.
A celebration of a politically, socially and culturally engaged publication, this special selection is also a testimony to one of the most unique and influential eras in the history of American architecture.
