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Antonio Gaudi (Masters of World Architecture)

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This mainly black & white and copiously illustrated paperback survey of 28 major works from 1877 to 1910 was published in 1960 by George Braziller in English on only 136 pages. Illustrated text part on 23 pages and chronology of life and works on 4 pages are followed by 80 pages mainly with very good and B&W photos, but also with 6 color photos, hard line plans, sections, elevations, and models. On several pages at the end of book, there are notes, bibliography, and index. Most of illustrations are photos of a good quality, well balanced, crisp and legible. Like all from the Masters of World Architecture/Makers of Contemporary Architecture series, it is solid among architectural monographs, while having only slightly bigger and sharper photos than in the comparable Studio Paperback series published by Birkhäuser Verlag under ISBN: 37643* (Basel)/08176* (Boston) or Artemis Verlag under ISBN: 37608* (Zürich)/18740* (London), and slightly smaller than in the the Library of Contemporary Architects/Masters of Modern Architecture series.
CONTENTS
Author's Note 6
Text 7
Life 8
Works 10
Evaluation 26
Chronology of Life and Works 28
Plates 33
Notes to the Text 122
Selected Bibliography 131
Index 135