![]() ![]() ![]() One of the few books that I do remember reading-it had no illustrations-was Anonymous (20th Century), by the Italian architect Leonardo Ricci. These inexpensive monographs introduced me to the work of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Pier Luigi Nervi, Louis Kahn, and Eero Saarinen. That was certainly true of the two George Braziller series, Masters of World Architecture and Makers of Contemporary Architecture. That was the case with most of my architecture books, which were less for reading than for examining the plans and photographs. I don’t know that I ever read the text straight through it was Wright’s beautiful drawings that attracted me. I was 18 and in the second year of architecture school. That was in 1961, two years after the old man had died. The first architecture book I bought was Frank Lloyd Wright’s A Testament. ![]()
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