[1ST AM ED] In Praise of Architecture by Gio Ponti

Meditations and observations on architecture and life by a transcendent figure in 20th century architecture and design. Section titles include The Politics of Architecture; Personal Mature Thoughts; Fantasy of Precisions; The Architect, the Artist; The Staircase; The Window; The Room,; Raw materials; House and Garden; Taste and Tastelessness; Women and Architecture; Industrial Design; and Listening to the Building. First American edition, published by F.W.Dodge Corporation in 1960. 8vo, hardcover, 270 pages with b/w illustrations. No dust jacket. Translated by Giuseppina and Mario Salvadori with a preface by Mario Salvadori. Ponti supplied new photographs and drawings to illustrate this first English-languge edition. Slight lean to spine. Minor fraying to cloth. Scarce.