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At the beginning of the 1930s the protagonists were searching for a name for the new architecture. On the advice of Le Corbusier, Alberto Sartoris replaced the term ‘rational’ with ‘functional’ architecture in the title of his 1932 book: Gli Elementi dell’Architettura Funzionale. The other name for modernist architecture, ‘The International Style’, was part of the title of another important book from 1932, that of Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson. The book was the catalogue of an exhibition at the MoMA in New York. Sartoris’ first edition was also internationally oriented, with works by more than 150 architects from 25 countries, with a total of 676 photographs. The second edition from 1935 is even more extensive, with more than 200 architects from 29 countries, and in addition to the 687 photographs also many floor plans. The Peeters house was represented with three photographs.
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The Eysselinck archive contains floor plans of the Peeters house, which were drawn after its competion, most likely with a view to publication.
The 1935 edition of Sartoris’ book contains only one colour print: an axonometric projection of Jean Saladin van Berchem’s villa-studio in Paris. The architect’s design dates from 1930 and shows the east and south façades.
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