First edition of this architectural guide book, published in 1974 by the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce. 4to (7.75” x 11”), pictorial wrappers, 100 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and maps documenting Columbus, Indiana’s extraordinary concentration of modern architecture. Design and typography by Paul Rand, whose multicolored “Dancing C” motif—created here for the cover—would become one of the most recognizable civic identities in American graphic design.
Issued at the height of J. Irwin Miller’s architectural patronage campaign that transformed Columbus into an unlikely epicenter of American modernism, the guide surveys works by Eero and Eliel Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Harry Weese, Kevin Roche, Cesar Peli, Robert Venturi, TAC (The Architect’s Collaborative), Eliot Noyes, Edward Larrabee Barnes, James Stewart Polshek and others whose commissions permanently altered the civic landscape.
Laid into this copy is the original Rand-designed Architectural Tour Map: Columbus, Indiana, together with a separate Awards Addenda slip noting architectural honors received in 1975—both ephemeral pieces seldom found retained.
Binding somewhat shaken; hinges weakened. Light bumping and some rubbing to extremities. Previous owner’s signature (architect and urban designer Suzanne O’Keefe) on front endpaper. A superior copy of a now-canonical artifact of both American modern architecture and late-period Paul Rand graphic design, enhanced by the inclusion of the map and the addendum.
First edition of this architectural guide book, published in 1974 by the Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce. 4to (7.75” x 11”), pictorial wrappers, 100 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and maps documenting Columbus, Indiana’s extraordinary concentration of modern architecture. Design and typography by Paul Rand, whose multicolored “Dancing C” motif—created here for the cover—would become one of the most recognizable civic identities in American graphic design.
Issued at the height of J. Irwin Miller’s architectural patronage campaign that transformed Columbus into an unlikely epicenter of American modernism, the guide surveys works by Eero and Eliel Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Harry Weese, Kevin Roche, Cesar Peli, Robert Venturi, TAC (The Architect’s Collaborative), Eliot Noyes, Edward Larrabee Barnes, James Stewart Polshek and others whose commissions permanently altered the civic landscape.
Laid into this copy is the original Rand-designed Architectural Tour Map: Columbus, Indiana, together with a separate Awards Addenda slip noting architectural honors received in 1975—both ephemeral pieces seldom found retained.
Binding somewhat shaken; hinges weakened. Light bumping and some rubbing to extremities. Previous owner’s signature (architect and urban designer Suzanne O’Keefe) on front endpaper. A superior copy of a now-canonical artifact of both American modern architecture and late-period Paul Rand graphic design, enhanced by the inclusion of the map and the addendum.
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