Light and Form: Modern Architecture and Photography 1927–1950 / Fény és Forma: Modern építészet és fotó 1927–1950 (Hungarian Museum of Architecture and National Office of Cultural Heritage, 2003) studies the role of the Tér és Forma (Space and Form) architectural magazine and its photographic coverage of the advances of the Modern Movement. The book has been compiled by Ibolya Csengel-Plank, Virág Hajdú, and Pál Ritoók, and it was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Hungarian Museum of Architecture between 3 October and 9 November 2003.
Luxury villas, elegant apartment houses with lifts running in glass tubes, a power plant’s control room evoking an ancient spacecraft, trendy shop interiors, and streamlined cinemas playing talkies – all were shot shortly after their completion for the architectural magazine Tér és Forma (Space and Form). The publication was the leading medium for promoting the Modern Movement’s ideas in Hungary between 1928 and 1948, a period in which Hungarian architects created designs ranking among Modernism’s best works worldwide. Today these photographs are invaluable source material, not only documenting buildings but also demonstrating that architectural photographs can be artworks in their own right. The majority of the negatives and vintage prints selected for this book belong to the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the Photo Archives of the National Office of Cultural Heritage.
– Light and Form: Modern Architecture and Photography 1927–1950 (Hungarian Museum of Architecture & National Office of Cultural Heritage, 2003),excerpt from the book description
The text is in English and Hungarian. The book is profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
Our copy is in very good condition. The pages are clean; no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only minor shelf wear.
