ABC/332 - The Architects' Year Book 3

ABC/332

The Architects' Year Book 3

1 volume

The third 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: Frontispiece; Editor's Foreword; The Architect and his Time; Architecture and Democracy; The Visual Arts; Notes on the Life and Work of L. Moholy-Nagy; Ciam at Sea; New Towns; The Social Context of the New Towns; Planning and Housing in Warsaw; Town Planning Problems of Stockholm; A New City in Brasil; Recent South American Building; House in the Desert; House near Copenhagen; Swiss Architecture, Yesterday and Today; New Work in Italy, Building and Furniture; West Coast U.S.A.; Danish Furniture Design; Furniture for a Design Centre; Indoor and Exhibition Planting; District Heating; Stramit Building Board; Prestressed Concrete. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Stevenage New Town; Plan for the New Town of Harlow; Layout Plan for a Residential Group in the Kolo District; Road Layout for Farsta, Stockholm; The Plaza and Cathedral, Quito, Ecuador; National University, Bogota, Colombia; Private House, Calle Bazton, Santiago, Chile; Factory, Bogota, Colombia; Private House, Rocas de S. Domingo, Chile; Private House, La Dehesa, Chile; Private House, Calle E. Muzard, Santiago, Chile; Private House, Avda Pocuro, Santiago, Chile; Argentine Automobile Club Headquarters Building, Buenos Aires; Apartment House, Buenos Aires; Studio House, Buenos Aires; House in Martinez, Buenos Aires; House in the Colorado Desert; House at Rungsted, near Copenhagen; Administration Building, "Hoffmann-Laroche" in Basel 1936; Primary School, "Felsburg", Lucerne 1947-48; New University of Fribourg 1940-1; Church in Altstetten, Zurich 1939-41; Additional Storey of the Mechanical Laboratory of the Swiss Federal School of Technology, Zurich 1947; Church at Uzwil 1934-34; Congress House, Zurich 1938-39; Small House in Zurich 1943-44; Zuka Exhibition 1947; Dwelling House at Fino Mornasco, near Como; Establishment at Ivrea; Flat Block at Genoa; Skiers Hotel at the Lago Nero; Monument to Italians who died in German Concentration Camps, at the Milan Cemetery; Fur Shop in Milan; Bookshop in Milan; Exhibition building at the Milan Fair; Showroom of Cosmetic Institute, Milan; Living Room, Bar Corner, Bedroom and Music Room in different Houses in Milan; The Colonia Piaggio, San Stefano d'Aveto, Liguria Appennini Mountains; U.S. Navy Ordnance Building, San Francisco; House by Joseph Allen Stein; Hirshfield House, Berkeley, California; Terrace and Pool, by Eckbo, Royston and Williams; City BAckyard, by Thomas Church.

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