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1955. The Museum of Modern Art, 1955. Cloth, dj., small quarto, 288 pp., with 235 illus. Dj chipped along top-edge and stained. Book is Very Sound. (Subject: Architecture & Urban Design. )

ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN, by Arthur Drexler. 288 pp., 255 plates. Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Distributed by Simon and Schuster. Original $6.50 on DJ flap. THE ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN, a lavishly illustrated survey of Japanese buildings and gardens from early pit dwellings to contemporary houses, by Arthur Drexler, Curator 0f the Museum's Department of Architecture and Design, will be published by the Museum of Modern Art on July 15. illustrated with fine photographs, THE ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN is for people interested in Japanese culture and history and in modern Western art as well as for professionals who will find the carpenters' details, cross sections of roof framing, plans and other unusual material of special interest. As Mr. Drexler points out in the preface, the importance of Japan's architectural tradition to contemporary Western building is well known, but only recently has the West developed effects common to Japanese architecture at least since the eighth century. 288 pp. pp. securely bound no unwanted marks unclipped DJ showing $6.50