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.
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.
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.
