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Hans Scharoun (Studio Paperback) (English and German Edition)

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This is a concise and copiously illustrated, but somehow dry, paperback survey of all major buildings, projects, and concepts from 1911 to 1973 on only 176 pages published under ISBN: 1874056803 by Artemis (London) and ISBN: 376081408 by Artemis (Zürich), and ISBN: 3764355816 by Birkhäuser (Basel...) and ISBN: 0817955816 by Birkhäuser (Boston) in English (and ISBN: 3764355808 by Birkhäuser (Basel...) and ISBN: 0817955808 by Birkhäuser (Boston) in German).
Following 30 pages with analysis of the architect's style, each of the presented 58 of all 250 life works is headed by a description from as little as just a few lines to over a page long followed by illustrations from one to several depending on the work's scope. All of 182 only B&W illustrations - at least a half of them technical (plans, sections, sketches, elevations, etc.), but also B&W photos of a good quality - are well balanced, superbly crisp and perfectly legible. On several pages at the end, there are: biography, selected bibliography, list of works, etc.
However, the other title by Eberhard Syring under ISBN: 3822827789 presents only 23 essential works on 96 pages, but depicted by more and bigger photos also in color. Like all from the Studio Paperback series, this book is solid among architectural monographs even of a bigger size. Unfortunately, not published in a slightly smaller format of the similar Works and Projects series by Gustavo Gili (GG) in English and Spanish.