(ARCHITECTURE) Requa, Richard S Architectural Details: Spain and the Mediterranean

(ARCHITECTURE.) Requa, Richard S. Architectural Details: Spain and the Mediterranean. 144 photographic plates in 12 fascicles. Folio, fascicles are original plain lettered wrapper, text booklet, wrappers; both laid into publisher's folding pictorial cloth case, spine ends and joints a bit tattered, one tie missing, the others fragile. Printed in San Diego by Frye & Smith. Los Angeles: The Monolith Portland Cement Company, (1926)

first limited edition. number 327 of 1000 copies of the special architect's edition. An important book by the major creator of what was to become "California style" architecture. Most of the pictures were taken by Requa himself as the first in-depth study of southwestern buildings, gardens, and design details with regard to creating a similar "logical and appropriate" style. The portfolio was issued one year before the trade edition and was presented to architects, schools, and libraries.