Focus. Number 1. (Summer 1938) – Number 4. (Summer 1939). (All Published).
The very rare complete set of the quarterly architectural magazine produced by students of London's Architectural Association and published by Percy Lund Humphries between 1938 and 1939. The magazine played an important role in the development of architectural modernism in the UK at the end of the 1930s, both in terms of education and the future of British architectural culture. Initiated by students and former students of the AA, Tim Bennett (1918– 42), Howard Cleminson (1918–39) and Leo De Syllas (1917–64), with Anthony Cox acting in an advisory capacity, Focus aimed “to act as a rallying point for those young (future) architects who had embraced modernism but who found their architectural education ill-suited to designing in this idiom.” It included contributions by the most influential creative minds of the time, including Marcel Breuer, Wells Coates, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Gropius, the Bauhaus founder, having received the first issue, wrote to one of the editors to declare his satisfaction that the younger generation of architects had “[taken] up the ball [from the elder generation] and [thrown] it forward again.”
Original printed wrappers with original plastic Spirax spiral binding. Rarely found with all four volumes together, this set is in good to very good condition. Light marks to the edges of the covers of all covers. The text and plates are unmarked
Title: Focus issues 1-4 (All Published)
Author: includes contributions from Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Smee, and Aalto, among others
Publisher: Percy Lund Humphries and Co Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1938-1939
Format: Spiral bound softcover
Total Pages: 370
The very rare complete set of the quarterly architectural magazine produced by students of London's Architectural Association and published by Percy Lund Humphries between 1938 and 1939. The magazine played an important role in the development of architectural modernism in the UK at the end of the 1930s, both in terms of education and the future of British architectural culture. Initiated by students and former students of the AA, Tim Bennett (1918– 42), Howard Cleminson (1918–39) and Leo De Syllas (1917–64), with Anthony Cox acting in an advisory capacity, Focus aimed “to act as a rallying point for those young (future) architects who had embraced modernism but who found their architectural education ill-suited to designing in this idiom.” It included contributions by the most influential creative minds of the time, including Marcel Breuer, Wells Coates, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Gropius, the Bauhaus founder, having received the first issue, wrote to one of the editors to declare his satisfaction that the younger generation of architects had “[taken] up the ball [from the elder generation] and [thrown] it forward again.”
Original printed wrappers with original plastic Spirax spiral binding. Rarely found with all four volumes together, this set is in good to very good condition. Light marks to the edges of the covers of all covers. The text and plates are unmarked
Title: Focus issues 1-4 (All Published)
Author: includes contributions from Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Smee, and Aalto, among others
Publisher: Percy Lund Humphries and Co Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1938-1939
Format: Spiral bound softcover
Total Pages: 370
The very rare complete set of the quarterly architectural magazine produced by students of London's Architectural Association and published by Percy Lund Humphries between 1938 and 1939. The magazine played an important role in the development of architectural modernism in the UK at the end of the 1930s, both in terms of education and the future of British architectural culture. Initiated by students and former students of the AA, Tim Bennett (1918– 42), Howard Cleminson (1918–39) and Leo De Syllas (1917–64), with Anthony Cox acting in an advisory capacity, Focus aimed “to act as a rallying point for those young (future) architects who had embraced modernism but who found their architectural education ill-suited to designing in this idiom.” It included contributions by the most influential creative minds of the time, including Marcel Breuer, Wells Coates, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Gropius, the Bauhaus founder, having received the first issue, wrote to one of the editors to declare his satisfaction that the younger generation of architects had “[taken] up the ball [from the elder generation] and [thrown] it forward again.”
Original printed wrappers with original plastic Spirax spiral binding. Rarely found with all four volumes together, this set is in good to very good condition. Light marks to the edges of the covers of all covers. The text and plates are unmarked
Title: Focus issues 1-4 (All Published)
Author: includes contributions from Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Smee, and Aalto, among others
Publisher: Percy Lund Humphries and Co Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1938-1939
Format: Spiral bound softcover
Total Pages: 370
