ABC/333 - The Architects' Year Book 4

ABC/333

The Architects' Year Book 4

1 volume

The fourth 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; On Constructive Realism; Painting and Architecture; The Social Basis of Town Planning; New Towns for Old; The Evolution of Present Day Italian Architecture; South American Architecture; Three Buildings on the West Coast; New School in Britain Architectural Education in Britain; Industrial Buildings; The Contemporary Staircase; Insulation and Thermal Conductivity; Welding and the Architect; Housing Folio; Unite d'Habitation; The Royal Festival Hall; Festival Hall Structure and Construction; Festival Hall Acoustic Tests. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Ten-Storey Block of Flats in Mark Hall North, Harlow; Harlow New Town, Essex; Housing in Via Accuino, Milan; Factory in Barlassina, near Como; House in the country near Milan; Society of Jesus Church, Cusco, Peru; Machupichu Ruins, Peru; Society of Jesus Church, Quito, Ecuador; Primitive type of House, Tumaco; Colonial House, Colombia; Torretagle Palace, Lima, Peru; Small Houses, Bogota; Weekend House by Alvaro Ortega; Eames Residence; V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, California; School at Hitchen; Primary School, Hughes Fields, Greenwich; School at Cheshunt; Impington Village, College Cambridge; Primary School, Clapham Park; Primary School, Essendon; Secondary School, Stevenage; Hugh Middleton School; Church School, Windmill Street, Picadilly; Primary School at Abingdon, Berks; Model of New Technical College, Basle; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Brynmawr Rubber Factory; Factory at Gillingham; Factory for Sigmund pumps at Gateshead; Factory at Duxford; Aircarft Assembly Hall, at Filton for Bristol Aeroplane Company; Bristol Aeroplane Co.; Holland-America Line, Disembarkment Building, Rotterdam; Compressorhouse and Planthouse, Petroleum & Carbon Ltd., Parkington Industrial Estate, Cheshire; Cinema in Milan by Cavalle; "Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau", Le Corbusier, Marseilles; External Stair, House in Connecticut, by Breuer; The Extension to Goteborg Town Hall by Asplund; Swiss Travel Bureau, London; Concrete Stair in Bredenberg Store, Stockholm; Sollerod Town Hall, Denmark; Exhibition Building, Frankfurt; Bishop's Bridge Road Housing Scheme, Paddington; Housing Scheme, Cromer Street; St. Pancras Way Housing Scheme, London; Flats at Lewisham; Flats in Rosebery Avenue, Finsbury, London; Flats at Gentofte, Copenhagen; Terrace Houses at Ditchingham, Norfolk; House at Sutton, Surrey; Cottage at Beaconsfield, Bucks; Houses at Cowley Peachey; House No.2, Birdham, Sussex; Cottage at West Drayton; Studio House in Zurich; House at Asserbo, Denmark; The Royal Festival Hall.

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