First edition of Warsaw Rebuilt (Warszawa Odbudowana), written by Adolf Ciborowski and Stanislaw Jankowski and published in 1963 by Polonia Publishing House. Small 8vo (6.75” x 6.5”), hardcover with a striking modernist dust jacket design by Franciszek Baranca. 155 pages, text in Polish and English, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs including a section of side-by-side before and after images. A handsome photographic survey documenting the reconstruction of Warsaw following the devastation of the Second World War, recording both the painstaking restoration of the historic center and the creation of the city's new civic architecture. One of the principal contemporary visual records of postwar Warsaw and an important document of twentieth-century urban planning, preservation, and architectural reconstruction.
Exceptional association copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To Mrs. and Mr. G. E. Kidder Smith in the memory of your visit [to] Institute of Theory of Architecture, Warsaw Polytechnic School of Architecture. Warsaw, 6 April 1965." Signed by Piotr Biegański, head of the Institute and one of Poland's foremost architectural historians and preservationists, together with Izabella Wisłocka and Lech Kłosiewicz, both distinguished members of the Institute's faculty, and a fourth unidentified departmental colleague. The volume commemorates George Everard Kidder Smith's official visit to the Warsaw Polytechnic at a pivotal moment when Warsaw's reconstruction had become an internationally recognized model of postwar urban restoration.
An unusually significant architectural association copy linking one of the twentieth century's great architectural photographers and historians with the leading scholars responsible for documenting and interpreting Poland's architectural heritage and the rebuilding of Warsaw. Slight lean to spine and some bowing to front board. Some bumping, light rubbing and chipping to dj.
First edition of Warsaw Rebuilt (Warszawa Odbudowana), written by Adolf Ciborowski and Stanislaw Jankowski and published in 1963 by Polonia Publishing House. Small 8vo (6.75” x 6.5”), hardcover with a striking modernist dust jacket design by Franciszek Baranca. 155 pages, text in Polish and English, profusely illustrated with b/w photographs including a section of side-by-side before and after images. A handsome photographic survey documenting the reconstruction of Warsaw following the devastation of the Second World War, recording both the painstaking restoration of the historic center and the creation of the city's new civic architecture. One of the principal contemporary visual records of postwar Warsaw and an important document of twentieth-century urban planning, preservation, and architectural reconstruction.
Exceptional association copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To Mrs. and Mr. G. E. Kidder Smith in the memory of your visit [to] Institute of Theory of Architecture, Warsaw Polytechnic School of Architecture. Warsaw, 6 April 1965." Signed by Piotr Biegański, head of the Institute and one of Poland's foremost architectural historians and preservationists, together with Izabella Wisłocka and Lech Kłosiewicz, both distinguished members of the Institute's faculty, and a fourth unidentified departmental colleague. The volume commemorates George Everard Kidder Smith's official visit to the Warsaw Polytechnic at a pivotal moment when Warsaw's reconstruction had become an internationally recognized model of postwar urban restoration.
An unusually significant architectural association copy linking one of the twentieth century's great architectural photographers and historians with the leading scholars responsible for documenting and interpreting Poland's architectural heritage and the rebuilding of Warsaw. Slight lean to spine and some bowing to front board. Some bumping, light rubbing and chipping to dj.
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