Arts & Architecture 1945-54
The Complete Reprint

Presents the first part (1945-1954) of the facsimile edition of "Arts & Architecture", which launched the Case Study House Program. This title provides a record of mid-century American architecture.

"A&A" was instrumental in putting American architecture - and in particular California Modernism - on the map. Other key contributors to the magazine include photographers Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller, writers Esther McCoy and Peter Yates, and cover designers Herbert Matter and Alvin Lustig, among many luminaries of modernism.This collection comes with ten boxes, each containing a complete year's worth of "Arts & Architecture" magazines from 1945-1954. That's 6,056 pages in 118 issues reproduced in their entirety - beginning with Entenza's January 1945 announcement of the Case Study House program. Also included is a supplement booklet with an original essay by former "A&A" publisher David Travers, translated from the English into German, French, and Spanish; all the covers and contents; and a selected index to articles. "Arts & Architecture 1945-54" will be followed in the future by a second volume, "1955-1967", bringing together all the existing issues of the modern era.This new TASCHEN publication, limited to 5000 numbered copies, provides a comprehensive record of mid-century American architecture and brings the legendary "Arts & Architecture" back to life after forty years.