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 Spring 1977 issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), with features and articles on Luigi Ontani, Walter Pfeiffer, Katherina Sieverding, Marcel Just, Alex Silber, David Buchan, Tom Sherman, an Alfred Jarry shadow play, a section on books by artists (including Mr. Peanut), and more.

Condition: Very Good-, some edgewear and reader's creasing along spine; some scuffing and dimpled creasing to covers; 1" tear to page 6; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The Fall 1981 issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), with features on the "Re-Materialization of the Art Object" including Matt Mullican (6 pages of graphics), Ken Dollar, Susan Hiller, a Tina Turner self-portrait and more. This issue's "BZZZ" gossip section appears to be in Arabic, except for the bold-faced names. The Luciano Bartolini insert is not present.

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear and slight corner bumps; lacking the Luciano Bartolini insert; 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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A collection of 30 issues spanning the years 1944 to 1967 of the influential west coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program. In 1945 the magazine 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.....
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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. Surveying the sculpture and objects Judd created and exhibited in Switzerland, as well as the interior of his residence.....
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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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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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