A typology of technical constructions. The very hard to find original edition, 4to, hard cover, bound in publisher's blue cloth board panels with pictorial dust jacket. 4 pages text in German followed by 194 b&w full page photographs by the German couple Hilla and Bernd Becher, reproduced in photogravure. An important photographic study of the development of form dictated by function rather than aesthetics. Dust jacket is clean and fine, slightly browned to spine and around borders on both panels, book condition is mint. Very fine+ copy. Ref. amongst others Parr&Badger.