MSA Presentation copy inscribed by Teige to Hilberseimer

MSA - Mezinárodní soudobá architektura. [MSA International Modern Architecture 1]. Prague: Odeon, 1929. 4to, 24x18.5cm. Edited by Karel Teige. Rebound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, inbound front cover with taped tears. Le Corbusier, Gustave Eiffel, Benjamin Backer, A. K. Burov, Krejcar, Linhart, Honzik, S. Gideon, Werner Gräff, Adolf Loos, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Mart Stam, Karel Teige. Captions in Czech, French and German. 176 pages. Cover and typo by Karel Teige. Inscribed by Teige to the architect Ludwig Hilberseimer (whose work is also featured in the book) in 1929, the same year the latter was appointed as a teacher of urban planning and architecture at the Bauhaus. Hilberseimer was brought in by Hannes Meyer, who had expanded the Bauhaus's focus on socially engaged architecture and urbanism. Hilberseimer's ideas aligned closely with Meyer’s Marxist-oriented vision for architecture as a tool for social reform. After the Bauhaus closed in 1933 under Nazi pressure, Hilberseimer emigrated to the United States in 1938 and joined Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he worked closely with Mies van der Rohe, continuing to develop urban planning models.