First edition of Nicholas Adams’s authoritative study of modernist architect Gordon Bunshaft. Published in 2019 by Yale University Press. Large 4to (9.25” x 11.75”), publisher’s illustrated boards issued without a dust jacket, 288 pages, b/w and color illustrations throughout. Laid into the volume is an original signed letter from Katherine Boller of Yale University Press, dated November 1, 2019, thanking architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky for the "tremendously helpful feedback" she provided on the manuscript over a period of years, adding that "Nick is as grateful as I am." Krinsky is acknowledged by Adams in the published volume as one of the book's two anonymous manuscript readers, while Boller is credited in the acknowledgments with proposing the project itself. The association is particularly significant given Krinsky's pioneering 1988 MIT Press monograph, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—the first full scholarly study of Bunshaft—which established the foundation upon which Adams's major reassessment was built. Indeed, Yale's own promotional material for the book prominently quotes Krinsky's endorsement, calling it "the vital, authoritative source" on Bunshaft for the next generation. The accompanying letter transforms this from a presentation copy into documented evidence of the scholarly collaboration behind one of the principal architectural monographs on Bunshaft and SOM to appear in recent decades. An exceptional association copy preserving the dialogue between two leading historians of modern architecture and the editor responsible for bringing the project to publication. Mild rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine.
First edition of Nicholas Adams’s authoritative study of modernist architect Gordon Bunshaft. Published in 2019 by Yale University Press. Large 4to (9.25” x 11.75”), publisher’s illustrated boards issued without a dust jacket, 288 pages, b/w and color illustrations throughout. Laid into the volume is an original signed letter from Katherine Boller of Yale University Press, dated November 1, 2019, thanking architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky for the "tremendously helpful feedback" she provided on the manuscript over a period of years, adding that "Nick is as grateful as I am." Krinsky is acknowledged by Adams in the published volume as one of the book's two anonymous manuscript readers, while Boller is credited in the acknowledgments with proposing the project itself. The association is particularly significant given Krinsky's pioneering 1988 MIT Press monograph, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—the first full scholarly study of Bunshaft—which established the foundation upon which Adams's major reassessment was built. Indeed, Yale's own promotional material for the book prominently quotes Krinsky's endorsement, calling it "the vital, authoritative source" on Bunshaft for the next generation. The accompanying letter transforms this from a presentation copy into documented evidence of the scholarly collaboration behind one of the principal architectural monographs on Bunshaft and SOM to appear in recent decades. An exceptional association copy preserving the dialogue between two leading historians of modern architecture and the editor responsible for bringing the project to publication. Mild rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine.
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