New York The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1973

99pp, 87 b/w illustrations. 4to. Orange paper wrappers. First two pages are loose else a good copy. The first of this architectural journal published by The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York between 1973 and 1984. A journal attempting to "establish a new arena for architectural discourse in which a consistent effort [would] be made to discuss [...] specific notions about the nature of architecture in relation to the man-made world." This publication includes essays by Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Anthony Vidler and Diana Agrest & Mario Gandelsonas.