MEXICAN HOUSES A Book Of Photographs & Measured Drawings - 1st Ed ., Signed By Oscar-winning Set Designer -

Los Angeles: Architectural Book Publishing. Good. 1930. 1st edition. Signed by Oscar-winning set designer Walter Scott . 1st ed, folio, black cloth, gilt titles. Xv [3] 173 pp. A look at the architecture and landscape architecture of early Mexico. Fro m 1925-1929, Garrison and Rustay set out to record a select numbe r of examples of the 'minor domestic architecture' of Mexico. The y recorded a limited number of individual buildings through a mix ed presentation of photographs, perspective and measured drawings , elevations, floor plans and details to produce a highly useful tool for architects designing Hispanic buildings. Profuse photogr aphic plates, line drawings, and plans. While the book is still i n print, the first edition is difficult to find. Ex Libris the li brary of Oscar winning set designer Walter M. Scott, with his sig nature on the half-title page. Scott was a set decorator who work ed on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and television shows as varied as Batman, Lost in Sp ace. He enjoyed a spectacular career in Hollywood, working on ove r 280 films and dozens of television series. He won six Academy A wards for set decoration, and was nominated for an additional fif teen. . d one 8x10 photo of Casa Adobe, the Southwest Museum in Los Angel es. The cards re ex libris research library Twentieth Century -F ox. ##### . as of light, damp-staining to covers. [Because of reflection, it looks worse in the photo than it is. ]Light spottint to half-titl e and fep, front gutter lightly cracked. In original publisher†™s dustjacket which is in poor condition; only the front and back panels are present, several large tears, numerous smaller tears. .