Global Architecture (GA): Towns and Villages (Full Run of 10 Issues)

FUTAGAWA, Yukio (ed. & photog.). Global Architecture (GA): Towns and Villages. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1973–1975. 10 vols.

Quarto. Ten softcover issues, each housed in its own card slipcase. Profusely illustrated throughout with photography by Futagawa, together with architectural drawings, plans, and maps. Text in Japanese. First edition. Complete set of ten volumes, comprising a photographic and architectural survey of traditional towns and vernacular settlements across the Aegean, Morocco, and other regions.

Yukio Futagawa (1932–2013) was, across a sixty-year career, one of the most significant architectural photographers and publishers of the twentieth century. Trained at Waseda University in Tokyo and profoundly influenced early in his career by Yoshio Watanabe's photographs of traditional Japanese architecture, Futagawa established the Edita Tokyo publishing company in 1970 and, through it, the Global Architecture (GA) series, a sustained, decades-long publishing project that would eventually encompass GA, GA Houses, GA Document, and GA Architect. He collaborated over his career with figures including Philip Johnson, Kenneth Frampton, and Christian Norberg-Schulz.

This listing includes the full ten-volume run of GA's Towns and Villages serialisation, published between 1973 and 1975. Each volume in the series was produced in collaboration with significant contemporary architects and historians, including, in the case of the opening Aegean Sea volume, the celebrated Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, later a recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Very good throughout. Shelf wear to slipcases with some wear to edges and corners of a few. Volumes internally fine. Spines a touch marked here and there. Covers bright and glossy.

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Catalogue Number: HH000712