ABC/334 - The Architects' Year Book 5

ABC/334

The Architects' Year Book 5

1 volume

The fifth 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: Systems of Proportion; Space in Painting and Architecture; Walter Gropius, 70 Years; The Bauhaus Idea; On the Neighbourhood Idea; The Core and the City; An Urban Project; Chandigarh, Capital City; Dutch Architecture Today; Post-War Architecture in West Germany; Aspects of Contemporay Italian Architecture; Man, Matter and Space; American Architecture Comes of Age; Six Recent Buildings in the U.S.A.; Artificial Lighting; Recent Developments in Prestressed Concrete; Precast Concrete in Wall Construction; The Production of Precast Concrete Units; Modern Wood Windows; Bellrock Panels. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Palladio, Plan of Villa Thiene, Cicogna; Triangulation of Milan Cathedral; S. Petronio, Bologna; Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau; London, Charing Cross Road; Rotterdam, Suburb of 17,000 people; Norway, Tvetan; The Pattern of the Sunday PRomenade, Lund Humphries; Plan of New Capital Punjab; Prefabricated Houses in Enshede; Flat Block, Zuidplein, Rotterdam; Housing Scheme, Frankendael, Amsterdam; Flat Blocks at The Hague; Velp House, by Rietveld; Vaasen House, by Salomonson; Station at 's-Hertogenbosch; ESVEHA Building, Rotterdam; Office Building for the Royal Dutch Steel-works; Office Buildings, Ymuiden; Small Playground, Amsterdam; Typefoundry Amsterdam; Nederland Store 1952; Department Store in Amsterdam, 1951; Building Centre, Rotterdam 1948; Exhibition Rotterdam Ahoy 1950; Cinema 't Venster', Rotterdam 1949; Factory at rotterdam, 1951; Medical Centre for the Harbour of South Rotterdam; Restaurant in a Park, Emmen; Rowing and Sailing Club Building, Rotterdam; Church at Aalsmeer; Roman Catholic Church, Amsterdam 1952; Remington Factory, 's-Hertogenbosch; Early House of Schroder & Rietveld; Hispano-Suiza Factory, Breda; Block of Flats, Frankfurt-am-Main; Housing Scheme, Hamburg; House of the Glass Industry, Dusseldorf; Store, Stuttgart; Bank and Offices, Manheim; Private House and Office, Heidelberg; Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt-am-Main; House of German Parliament, Bonn; Exhibition Building, Hanover; Automobile Factory, Bremen; Village School, South Germany; Textile Factory, South Germany; Ward Willitt House, Highland Park; Midway Gardens, Chicago, Illinois; Sunken Garden Court, Spring Green, Wisconsin 1925; Hanna House, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Taliesin West, Maricopa Mesa, near Phoenix, Arizona; Administration Building, S. C. Johnson & Sons Inc, Racina, Wisconsin; Johnson Wax Research Tower 1949-50; V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Franciso, California 1949; St. Michael's, Charleston, Carolina; Customs House, Salem, Massachusetts; Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, 1867; ZCMI Building, Salt Lake City 1868; Sever Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Glessner House, Chicago; Dooley Block, Salt Lake City, 1891; Guaranty Building, Buffalo, N.Y.; Richardsonian Office Block of the 1890's, Minneapolis; Owatonna Bank, Minnesota 1916; Red Cross Building, San Francisco, California; United Nations Headquarters, New York; Lever House, New York; Graduate Centre, Harvard University, Massachusetts; General Motors Technical Centre; Farnsworth House, Chicago; Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago; Goods Shed, Bury St. Edmunds; Repair Shop, Utrecht; Barrack Dining Hall, Rome; Bus Garage, Bournemouth; Bus Garage, Sheffield; Fropax Factory, Lings Lynn; Northlight Shell Roof, Liverpool; Warehouse, Le Havre; London Airport Hangars; Girl's School, Minervastrasse, Zurich; Old Palace School, Bromley-by-Bow; Dunlop Building, Zurich.

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