Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000 (Inscribed) Peter Eisenman, Ariane Lourie (ed), Stan Allen (foreword) [Very Good] [Hardcover]

First edition of architect and architectural historian Peter Eisenman s disquisition on ten buildings that in his estimation profoundly affected architectural discourse and practice. Included are Luigi Moretti s Casa Il Girasole (1947-50), Mies van Der Rohe s Farnsworth House (1946-51), Le Corbusier s Palais des Congres-Strasbourt (1962-64), Louis Kahn s Adler and Devore Houses (1954-64), Robert Venturi s Vanna Venturi House (1959-64), James Stirling s Leicester Engineering Building (1959-63), Aldo Rossi s Cemetery of San Cataldo (1971-78), Rem Koolhaas s Jussieu Libraries (1992-93), Daniel Liebskind s Jewish Museum (1989-99), and Frank Gehry s Peter B. Lewis Building (1997-2002). Edited by Ariane Lourie and with a foreword by Stan Allen. Published in 2008 by Rizzoli. With a full-page signature in green ink running lower left toward upper right on the title page; gift inscription to a former fraternity brother dated 11 August 09. Minor bumping and rubbing to dj, otherwise NF.