Modernism Rediscovered by Pierluigi Serraino Paperback - 576 pages (November 2000) TASCHEN America Llc ISBN: 3822864153 Check price and buy it at: amazon.com , amazon.co.uk

Northwest Arkansas Times, 12/24/00

Shulman's slick, elegant renderings of buildings amount to an unusual and intriguing look at some of modernism's less celebrated works.

From Library Journal

Shulman, long considered the premiere photographer of mid-20th-century West Coast Modern architecture, is now hailed as an artist who defined the image of the "good life" for postwar America through his elegant depictions of spare but luxurious International Style dwellings. The publisher extends the Shulman craze with a mesmerizing portfolio of rare architectural photos. For this book, Shulman raided his vast archive to cull over 500 photos, many published only once before, of houses, office buildings, and other structures by talented but lesser-known and forgotten architects. This treasure trove will captivate architecture historians and midcentury Modern design buffs. The serviceable but pedantic text by architect Serraino consists of a dispensable introductory essay and a dry running commentary on each building. Most public libraries should hold either Joseph Rosa's A Constructed View: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman (Rizzoli, 1994) or Shulman's autobiographical Julius Shulman: Architecture and Its Photography (Taschen, 1998). Modernism Rediscovered is an excellent addition for academic and specialized architecture collections.

Customer Reviews

Sick Cribs, August 2, 2005
Reviewer: Matthew Pearlmutter (San Diego)
This is a great book, do not hesitate to buy it! No better houses photgraphed in one book. This book will blow your mind, you will be bummed that you can't buy houses like these today! Must have for every modernist!

great review of modernism, June 22, 2001
Reviewer: Pierre HENON (charleville-mezieres, France)
This book is made of the essence of modernism. All photos are taken during the original time period. It is a great lesson of architecture. To be read after a Frank Lloyd Wright book's and an Art & Craft anthology to discover how tasteless is the architecture of the end of the millenium.