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Meyer, Peter (1894 - 1984)
MODERNE ARCHITEKTUR UND TRADITION.
Zürich, Verlegt bei Dr. H. Girsberger & Cie., 1928.
23 cm. [2], 72 pp. + 105 photographic illustrations on 15 plates.

Original stiff printed boards.
The copy of Gustaf Näsström, Swedish art historian, with his signature dated 1929, on free front end-paper.
      $ 125
 Second edition, revised. Originally published in 1927. An interesting discussion of modern and "pseudo-modern" buildings, "functionalistic symbolism", "Sacral Faustic", "Nordic", "Vienna", "Wohnmaschine", etc. explaining the author's concept of Modernism.