Lesnikowski, Wojciech : East European Modernism - Architecture in Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland Between the Wars 1919-1939

This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket, with no wear whatsoever. Completely clean inside and out. Edited by Lesnikowski with an introduction by him. Essays by Vladimir Slapeta, Janos Bonta, John Macsai, and Olgierd Czerner. Profusely illustrated in black & white. - Suppressed by the former communist governments and overshadowed by a focus on German and Dutch early modernism, the outstanding achievements of functionalist architects in Eastern Europe have been largely ignored by historians and critics. this book is the first retrospective ever published of functionalist buildings completed between the wars, the Golden Age of modernism, in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. It is illustrated with rare archival and current photographs of the most famous and exemplary projects in each country: sanatoriums, hotels, sports facilities, private houses, offices, and religious and governmental buildings. Among the illustrious architects whose work is presented here are Karel Teige, Bohuslav Fuchs, and Josef Gocar of Czechoslovakia; Alfred Forbat and Jozsef Fischer of Hungary; and Lucian Korngold, Barbara and Stanislaw Brukalski, and Bohdeon Lachert of Poland. An introductory essay examines functionalism in Eastern Europe from an international perspective; essays by prominent architectural historians from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland explore competing ideas and functionalism in each country.