The covers are lightly rubbed, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 80 pages, please check with us for an accurate postage cost. Architectural Design, also known as AD, is a UK-based architectural journal first launched in 1930 as Architectural Design and Construction. "In 1975 Andreas bought the financially troubled Architectural Design (AD) magazine, and in 1977 published Charles Jencks's The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, which went through six editions. Jencks served as the entrée to a wealth of architectural talent in America and Japan as well as Britain. Both Architectural Design and Academy Editions continued to publish Post-Modern, Classical and Deconstructivist projects throughout the 1980s.....In 1990, Academy Group Ltd., along with Architectural Design and associated journals (Architectural Monographs, Art and Design and the Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts), was sold to VCH Germany." (Papadakis)