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** Complete 2-Volume Slipcased Set **; Very Good; Hardcover; Both volumes are in excellent condition with light wear to the covers, unmarked pages, and tight bindings; Minor edgewear to the slipcase; This book set will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); Heavy (6.0 lbs); Tan paper slipcase with title in red and black lettering; 2018, Park Books; 716 pages; "SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey," by Oliver Elser, et al.

** Complete 2-Volume Slipcased Set **; Very Good; Hardcover; Both volumes are in excellent condition with light wear to the covers, unmarked pages, and tight bindings; Minor edgewear to the slipcase; This book set will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); Heavy (6.0 lbs); Tan paper slipcase with title in red and black lettering; 2018, Park Books; 716 pages; "SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey, " by Oliver Elser, et al.

Corners lightly creased. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 2017 Large Softcover. 180 pp. A study of the 1950s architectural style emphasizing structure over decoration, featuring articles submitted by seventeen authors as contributions to the international symposium in Berlin in 2012. This volume is meant to accompany SOS Brutalism - A Global Survey. Many buildings in this style are in danger of being lost, as they are often viewed as unattractive. Color and black-and-white photographs throughout.

Zurich: Park Books, 2018. Two volumes (one hardcover and the other softcover) in printed card slip casing, as issued. 716 pp. 9 x 11 inches. Widely disliked in their heyday and only recently beginning to be appreciated, brutalist buildings around the world are at risk of being lostin many cases to demolition, and in some to insensitive reconstructions that would forever alter buildings' appearance beyond recognition. SOS Brutalism is a distress signal, an attempt to galvanize public awareness of the architectural heritage that is at risk of being forever lost. The book, result of a major collaborative research undertaking by Deutsches Architektur Museum DAM and Wüstenrot Foundation, presents a global survey of brutalist architecture of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, covering around 120 key buildings from the period from around the world, many of them little-known and in imminent danger of destruction. Case studies of hotspots such as the Macedonian capital Skopje or New Haven, Connecticut, and essays on the history and theory of brutalism round out this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated book. Fine. As new in publisher's shrink wrap.

** Complete 2-Volume Slipcased Set **; Very Good; Hardcover; Both volumes are in excellent condition with light wear to the covers, unmarked pages, and tight bindings; Minor edgewear to the slipcase; This book set will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); Heavy (6.0 lbs); Tan paper slipcase with title in red and black lettering; 2018, Park Books; 716 pages; "SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey, " by Oliver Elser, et al.

Two volumes in broken strap HB and PB 1st Park Books; like new unread copy