ABC/330 - The Architects' Year Book 1

ABC/330

The Architects' Year Book 1

1 volume

The first volume from a series of Year Books aimed to help and inspire architects by offering them a compilation of technical and aesthetic information on the contemporary architectural practices. It covers subjects such as: The Future of Architecture; Town Planning; Landscape Architecture in America; A Philosophy of Landscape; Housing; Planning for Industrial Buildings; Service Buildings; The Arts; The Present State of Design and its Relation to the Industrial System; Mural Painting; Exhibitions 1943-1944; The Architecture of Education; Some Contemporary American Buildings; The Relationship between Sciene and Architecture; The Co-ordination of Engineering Services; Structural Steelwork; Reinforced Concrete; Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning; Electrical Developments; Acoustics; Gas in the Post-war Home; Aluminium Alloys and the Architect; Cast Iron; The Use of Copper in Post-war Buildings; Flexible Roofings; Fibre Building Boards; Glass; Post-war Development of Lift Design; Some Notes on Plasterboard; Plastic and their place in post-war Building; Development in Timber. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Neighborhood unit for South Africa; Norris Boathouse; Garden at San Francisco World Fair; Taliesin West, Phoenix, Arizona; Koch Garden, Cambridge, Mass.; Garden of House by Walter Gropius; San Francisco, Valencia Gardens Housing Project; Cement Works Schemes; Wartime Housing; Garden City Development; New Town by Thos. Sharp; Mixed Rental Neighbourhood; Layout from Siemenstadt; Glass Walled Factory; Suspended Toilets; North Light Roof; Clerestory Roof; White Cement Floor; St. Pancras Station; Arnos Grove Station; Aerodrome Building, Ramsgate; Clubroom, London Gilding Club; Ipswich Airport; Composite Airport Building; Washinton National Airport; Westminster Hospital; National Hospital, Queen Square; Chichester Hospital; War Emergency Hospital; Mural Painting; Utility furniture; Regional divisions; Layout of an Industrial Site; The Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham; Village Colleges, Cambridgeshire; The Pattern of the medieval town; The Patter of the American grid town; Koch Garden, Cambridgeshire, Mass.; Plan of a Community Centre; Plan of Impington Village College; Garage at Saltdean; Science Block, Marlborough College; Burlington School for Girls; School at Villejuif; Nursery School, Cheshire; School at Altofts; School at Richmond; Koch House, Snake Hill; "Fortune Rock" House; House in Fellowship Park; House for Aubrey Watzek; Wartime housing, Pennsylvania; Channel Heights Housing; Hallawell Seed Company, San Francisco; Leather Goods Shop, N.Y.; Haberdasher's Shop, N.Y.; Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds; Station on the Stadtbahn; Messrs. Murex Factory; Vaster Bridge, Stockholm; Pithead at Hendrick; Factory at Nottingham; Bridge near Jena; Hangar for Air Ministry, Denmark; Hall for Postal Vans, Nuremberg; Flats in Denmark; Finsbury Health Centre; Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

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