— Travaux D'Architecture : Leon Daures, Albi

Strasbourg, France, EDARI, 1933. Softcover. Brown wraps with brown design and text on cover. 42 pp. Chiefly bw illustrations. "The young architect, trained at the beginning of the century and settled in the Albi region upon graduating from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, could not help but be troubled by his first encounters with man's oldest material. Brick had long ago inspired the creation of vaults; more recently, its marriage with stone had allowed for the richest syntheses. Brick had not only provided an element of the picturesque; in Languedoc and northern Italy, its richness of color and simplicity of line had combined elegance with rigidity of form. But in the 19th century, brick had been considered a material without nobility, and in the Albi region, the brilliance of facades had almost everywhere disappeared beneath the grayness of characterless plaster. Mr. Leon Daures made these observations at a time when a renovation of housing and public monuments was being prepared. He thus considered the facilities that brick provided for a modern use of the semicircular arch, notably in the layout of the openings, bringing a new picturesque quality to the most modest facades." - translated from preface. VG- some wear on wraps, spine with minor rips, spot on back cover. Some marks on cover page, all else excellent .