Architects on Architecture: New Directions in America

Paul Heyer. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, $39.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-442-01751-4

This revised edition includes 700 b & w photos, line drawings and interviews with I. M. Pei, Frank Lloyd Wright, LeCorbusier and others. (Mar.)

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