ABC/336 - The Architects' Year Book 9

ABC/336

The Architects' Year Book 9

1 volume

The ninth 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: Adolf Loos, 1870-1933; A note on Holland House; Metropolitan Centres; Berlin and the 'Hauptstadt Berlin' Competition; Behind the Bamboo Screen; Louis Kahn; Centrality and Symmetry in Wright's Architecture; The Future was not to be Seen at Brussels; School in Nagele, Holland; Three Buildings; The Engineer and the Architect; New Developments in Industry and the Training of Designers; The Revolution Finished Twenty years ago; Heating, 1900-1980; Recent Developments in Shell Concrete Construction; Distribution and Control of Electricity; Wiring Systems, Conduits, and Ducts; Space Heating by Electricity; Electric Space Heaters; Lighting for Work; Lifts; Telephone Systems; A note on E.D.A. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Tobacconist's Shop, 1898; Shop Interior of Men's Outfitter, Vienna; House on the Shore of Lake Geneva, 1904; Shop Entrance, Vienna, 1907; Steiner House, Vienna, 1910; House on the Michaelerplatz, Vienna, 1910; Scheu House, Vienna, 1912; Project for Worker's Maisonettes, Vienna; Project for Grand Hotel Babylon, French Riviera, 1923; Tristan Tzara House, Montmartre, Paris; Knize Luxury Tailor's Shop, Champs Elysees, Paris, 1928; Moller House, Vienna 1928; Country House in the Austrian Alps, 1930; Karntner Bar, Vienna, 1907; Stock Exchange, Amsterdam; Diamond Workers Federation Buildings, Amsterdam; Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo; Kroller-Muller House, The Hague; Holland House; Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas; San Francisco Skyline from Freeway; Plan of Brasilia; Plan of Chandigarh; A.E.G. Turbine House, Beusselstrasse; Siemensstadt Siedlung; Stalinallee, Berlin; Alexanderplatz, East Berlin; Former Protestant Cathedral and Reichspalast; Ruins of Franzosischer Dom; Radio and Television Building in Peking; Institute of Geology of the University of Chang-Choun; Motorcar Factory in Chang-Choun; Housing in the Suburbs of Shanghai; Pavilion and Summer Palace near Peking; Rock-Garden in the Temple of the Azure Clouds, near Peking; Main Hall of a Ming Emperor's Tomb, near Peking; A Typical Small Courtyard House in Peking; Imperial Palace, Peking; Medical Research Building, University of Pennsylvania; Norristown House, Penn, 1950; State Capitol Project, Arizona, 1957; Monona Terrace PRoject, Wisconsin, 1955; Gordon Strong Planetarium Project; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943-1957; Beth Sholom Synagogue, Philadelphia 1954; Christian Science Church, Bolinas, California, 1957; Greek Orthodox Church, Milwaukee, 1956; World Fair at Brussels 1958 with different pavilions; Three Schools in Nagele (n.e. Polder, Holland); Gavea Neighborhood Unit, Rio de Janeiro; Community Theatre in the Marechal Hermes District, Rio de Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro; Hangar at Limestone Air Force Base; St. Louis Municipal Airpoirt; Workshop Block at the New Technical College, Kingston-upon-Hull; Town Hall in Albuquerque; Exhibition Halls in Belgrade; Hangar at Marignane Airport; Hangar for the Air Ministry, R.A.F. Transport Command, Abingdon, Berks; Factory of Modern Engineering, Bristol; North Light Factory at Gossau, Switzerland; Herdez Factory, San Bartoli; CIBA Laboratories in Mexico City; Department Store in Denver; Garage of the Lincolnshire Motor Co. in Lincoln; Assembly Hall of the Kingbrook Infants School, Bedford; Philips Pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition; Proposed Mausoleum of Jinnah in Pakistan; A Factory in Bonn; Assembly Hall of the Knappsack Griesheim A. G.; Factory at Memmingen; Assembly Hal of Two Saints School, Southwark; Synagogue of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; St. Rochus Church in Dusseldorf; Belgian Civil Engineering Exhibit, Brussels 1958; Covered Market at Royan; Pannier Market, Plymouth; Exhibition Palace of the National Centre of Industries and Technology, Paris; Celestino's Warehouse, Mexico; Cabero's Warehouse, Mexico; Tulcancingo Wool Mill, Tlaxcala, Mexico; Lederle Laboratories, Mexico.

Good condition, Spine slightly loose