Power in Buildings: An Artist's View of Contemporary Architecture.
Ferriss, Hugh. New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. First Edition. 102 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, large loss at base of spine, small tears and chips at edges, now in mylar cover. Grey cloth boards with black embossed titling and silver embossed swoops that mimic the lines of the cover illustration by Ferriss. Clean and crisp within.
Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962) was trained as an architect but spent his career creating fabulous renderings for other architects. Through those renderings, Ferriss produced an urban vision that sold buildings on behalf of architects like Raymond Hood, Cass Gilbert, and Holabird & Root. Ferris's work in the 1920s and 1930s were widely publicized, influencing not only the sense of progress that the Art Moderne style promised..... More