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Softcover. Zustand: vg. First edition. Folio. [161]-192pp. Original photographic wrappers. Remarkable issue of the DBZ, the German architecture magazine, dedicated to the architecture at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. Between pp. 162-178 are displayed numerous b/w photographic reproductions of the following pavilions: Germany, Holland, Poland, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, England and Canada, Norway, Russia, the United States, the Baltic states, Hungary, Spain, and Yugoslavia. Pictorial article (pp. 179-182) on architect Kurt Stoltenberg's churches and sailor's homes. Minor soiling along edges of wrappers. Loose pages as both staples are missing. 4 pages missing (pp. 183-186). Text in German. Wrappers in overall good+, interior in very good condition. The 1937 'Exposition Universelle de Paris' was one of the most spectacular cultural events of the twentieth century. 1937 held the last in a line of French World Exposition in Paris. This exposition showed the madness from totalitarian aesthetics from Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. NSDAP gave funds to the construction of the German pavilion and it was designed by the young architect Albert Speer. He designed the German pavilion so the giant eagle (with the swastika at the top of the stone colossus) looked as if the raptor was looking at the opposite Soviet pavilion. The Russian pavilion showed the hammer and sickle adorn the walls along with representations of the leader. The Italians emphasized the Roman heritage, combined with clean modernism of empty spaces. In contrast the Spanish pavilion had the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso. The famous painting illustrated the German terror bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica during the then ongoing Spanish Civil War.…

29x22 cm. 80 pp. + 9 colour plates. Illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth-backed boards. End-paper with small ownership stamp, title-page with signature. Overall a very good copy.

gelber OLWd., mit buntgeprägtem Vorderdeckel und Rückentitel, [4] + [XII] Textseiten + [33] Tafeln + [14] Seiten Verlagswerbung + XXI Seiten Nachwort, 20 x 26,5 cm, wie neu. Book Language/s: German.