The International Magazine of Architecture, this issue features an international survery of architectural conversions including a convent into a law school (Italy), a wharf into a village (Boston), a palace into a hotel (India), a cliff house into a museum (Spain), a mill into a studio (New Jersey), and a feature on James Stirling's training center for the Olivetti Corporation, among other articles.

Condition: Very Good, some scuffing to covers.
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The Summer 1978 issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), focusing almost exclusively on General Idea's 10th Anniversary, and of course the Miss General Idea 1984 Pavillion. Tons of GI history, photos, graphics, posturing, and ideas.

Condition: Near Fine, light edgewear; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The Spring 1976 issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), a special edition covering New York City with gossip and features by Les Levine, writing by Kathy Acker, NY's ten best dressed, photo stories by Marcia Resnick, Marcel Just, Mac Adams, John Wille and more.

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear; some dimpled indents to covers; light reader's creasing along spine; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The "Special $ucce$$" issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), including an interview with Andy Warhol on money, William Burroughs, a spread on the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, cash flow tips, Tom Dean and more. The Robert Fripp flexi-disc is not present.

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear; lacking the Robert Fripp flexi-disc; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
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The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on a house by Craig Ellwood, the.....
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The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on a house by Harry Seidler, two.....
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Donald Judd was closely connected to Switzerland throughout this life. From the early 1970s until his death, the American artist produced significant exhibitions there. Though his residences in Marfa and New York are legendary, less well-known is the hotel at Eichholteren which Judd transformed into an extraordinary residence on the banks of Lake Lucerne that tests the tensions and affinities between Swiss architecture and his own doctrines of function and design. Surverying the sculpture and objects Judd created and exhibited in Switzerland, as well as the interior of his residence.....
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Wonderfully detailing Kelly's 2,700 square-foot stone building with colored glass, totemic sculptural works and black and white marble panels designed by the artist as a place for contemplation and gifted to the Blanton Museum in Austin, TX. It was completed in 2018 after Kelly's death - he died in 2015 at age 96, just two months before construction on the project began. Features archival material, drawings, historic photographs and images of nearly all the related works Kelly created for the building’s design. Beautifully printed, oversize and with a unique binding.....
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WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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In October of 2004, Tom Sachs and Van Neistat toured the Alps by motorcycle and made this publication documenting their journey with hand-drawn maps and appendices listing various information, including a calendar, crashes, expenses, dinner seating and exhibition charts, travel restrictions, and their meals, ranked. Signed in an edition of only 25 copies, this #6 of 25. Color copied onto heavy paper stock. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Near Fine.
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The extensive hardcover catalog published in conjunction with MoMA New York's 2020 retrospective on American maverick Donald Judd’s minimalist sculpture, architecture and furniture.The first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd’s sculpture in more than 30 years, "Judd" explores the work of the landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material and formal vocabulary that transformed the field of modern sculpture. Donald Judd was among a generation of artists in the 1960s who sought to entirely do away with illusion, narrative and metaphorical content. He turned to.....
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