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Museum of Modern Art / Simon & Schuster, New York, 1953. hardcover, 7¾" x 10¼", with dust jacket. Tape stains to endpapers from protective jacket covers. Original bookseller's label inside front cover. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper (& previous owner's name). GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket. This book is the Museum of Modern Art's report on the best of American architecture to 1952. Private houses, skyscrapers, schools, a hospital, a retail store, a chapel and a stadium are among the 43 buildings amply illustrated by plans and photographs (190 plates). The qualities that have brought US buildings to their pre-eminent position are reviewed in an introductory essay by Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock, America's leading historian of modern architecture. Critical text appraises individual buildings.