OUD,J.J.P. Hitchcock Jr.,Henry Russell. — J.J.P. Oud.

Paris, Éditions "Cahiers d'art", [1931]. [8] pp. 45 b./w. plts (incl. portraits & plans). Orig. stiff paper printed wrappers. - Spine repaired & spotted. Endpapers foxed.(Les maitres d'architecture d'aujourd'hui. Collection publiée sous la direction de Christian Zervos. / Les Cahiers d'architecture contemporaine, vol. 2). Copy of the first monograph on the Dutch architect Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J. J. P. Oud (9 February 1890 - 5 April 1963). His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement. Oud was born in Purmerend, the son of a tobacco and wine merchant. As a young architect, he was influenced by Berlage, and studied under Theodor Fischer in Munich for a time. He worked together with W.M. Dudok in Leiden, which is where he also met Theo van Doesburg and became involved with the movement De Stijl. In 1930, Oud received a visit from architect Philip Johnson and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Both were particularly impressed by Oud's homes in Hoek van Holland. Hitchcock wrote this first monograph on J.J.P. Oud, and Johnson earned him a place of honor in the exhibition The International Style: Architecture since 1922 at the MoMA in 1932, which established his name in the United States as one of the pioneers of new architecture.