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A tour of postwar modernist architectural sites....

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A tour of postwar modernist architectural sites. 90 silver prints, 8,2 x 10,9 cm, tipped-in, under tissue guards, some ms. legends. 4to red cloth ad hoc album. Hamburg: the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church "Dreifaltigkeitskirche" (built in 1957/58 after a design by Reinhard Riemerschmid), the Grindel skyscrapers (12 high-rise buildings arranged in a line of five rows constructed between 1946 and 1956 by the Grindelberg Architects in the spirit of Le Corbusier); Essen: Grugahalle (indoor arena built by a team of architects from Hanover Ernst Friedrich Brockmann and Gerd Lichtenhahn out of steel and concrete in the distinctive butterfly shape, opened in 1958), post-war modernistic buildings in Sarcelles and Bobigny, "Tour Lopez" or "Caisse centrale d'allocations familiales" in Paris (an institutional and administrative building constructed in 1959 by Raymond Lopez and marcel Reby), UNESCO Headquarters (designed by Bernard Zehrfuss (France), Marcel Breuer (Hungary), and Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy), inaugurated in 1958), the Museum of Modern Art André Malraux in Le Havre (designed by Atelier LWD, opened in 1961), etc.