Architecture Competition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition edition. 646 pages. 9.50x11.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: very good. Tokyo, Koyosha 1924 (Taisho 13). 19x13cm, loose as issued in publisher's printed boards; 50 leaves, mostly plates printed on one side (actually 48 as two are double page carrying two numbers); renderings, elevations and plans. Wear to spine, dust marks or darkening to the very top edge of several plates, a decent secondhand copy. Here are the winners and honourable mentions from a competition for a tower of gratitude for international aid after the 1923 earthquake. First and second prizes are graced with overwrought dramatics but are hardly radical. Things get more interesting after that. One of the apparently endless series of small architecture monographs, Kenchiku Shashin Riuju. I wonder if anyone knows how many there were. Some are intriguing and some are pretty drab. Many require a dogged love of gateways and tea rooms. This one is up top. Outside Japan, Worldcat finds one entry, at Queensland University dated 1929 for some reason, but the university's four entries for the title, including a microform, don't actually locate a copy.