ABC/331 - The Architects' Year Book 2

ABC/331

The Architects' Year Book 2

1 volume

The second 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: A Note on Science and Art; Painting, Sculpture, and Modern Architecture; The Arts; A Philosophy of Landscape II; The Middlesborough Experiment; Rovaniemi, a Finnish Reconstruction Project; Kampala Town Planning; Town Planning in South Africa; "Ascoral"; Housing Equipment for Machinist Society, Le Corbusier; Recent Swedish Architecture, Bertil Hulten; Some Recent Danish Buildings (Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen Broadcasting House, Church at Frederiksberg, School at Emdrup, School at Utterslev, House at Ordrup Krat); Architectural Education, Alfred Roth; Architectural Education in America; Some Work from three English Schools of Architecture; Competitions (Pimlico Flats, Holiday Camp, Crystal Palace); Shell Concrete Construction; Timber, some Structural Properties and Uses; The External Facing of Buildings; Materials and Equipment (Asphalt, Holco Blocks, Rubber, Patent Floors, Myko Floor, Solid Fuel Appliances, Woodwool Building Slabs, Zinc Pigments). The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: S. Maria dell'Arena, Padua; The Painted Hall, Greenwich; House in Utrecht, by Schroder & Rietveld; S. Maria Novella, Florence; The Sistine Chapel, Rome; Yacht Club, Pampulah, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Caryatides at Highpoit II, Architects Tecton; Landscape Treatment at Knutsford; North Ormesby Replanned; Christianborg Castle; Three-storey Flats, Lidingo; Danviksklippan, Stockholm; "Point" House, Danviksklippan; Approach to Vasterbron, Stockholm; Plan of Museum of Shanghai; Gymnasiums in Chelsea; House in Hampstead; Model of Library; Stepney Rehousing Scheme; Grosvenor Road; Plywood Factory at Lydney; Market Hall, Frankfurt-on-Main; Covered Market at Vevey, Switzerland; Paris-Austerlitz Station; Works Canteen in essex; Fronton Recoletos, Madrid; Hippodrome, Madrid; Store Building at Tertre; Bus Garage at Wythenshawe; Domed Market Hall, Algeciras; Market Hall, Leipzig; Market Hall, Basle; Canteen, Cardiff; St. Peter's, Rome; Dolan Creek, Coast Highway, California; School at Richmond, Yorks.; Primary School, Zurich; Hostel for Girls, Gower Street; Congress House, Zurich; Houses, Coventry; Cottages, Somerset; Flats, Clydebank; Office Blocks, Maidstone.

Spine a bit loose. some loose pages