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.
The seventh 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: The Architect as Universal Man; The Problem of the Past; Psychology, Archutect and Patron; Architecture and the Visual Arts; The Theme of CIAM 10; Contributions to CIAM 10; Atrium Houses; The Work of Auguste Perret; The Work of Gardella; Modern Architecture in Brazil; Recent Architecture in Finland; Two Exhibitions 1955; British Trade Fair 1955; Some Recent U.S. Design; Selected Equipment 2; Trends in Electrical Development; The Heat Pump; Natural Ventilation Systems; Current Architecture in Great Britain; Flats at Lambeth and Hammersmith; Houses at St. Pauls Cray and Leicester; Schools at Chaddesden, Catford, Royston, Putney and Paddington; Crystal Palace Development. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Le Corbusier, Chapel at Ronchamp, Vosges, France; Chapel at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Moroccan Housing, Block by ATBAT; Three Storey Flats at The Hague; Atrium Houses; Garage 51 Rue Ponthieu 1906; Theatre des Champs Elysees 1912; Esders Factory, Paris 1915; Notre Dame de Raincy, Sein-et-Oise 1923; Palais de Bois, Paris 1924; Tuberculosis Clinic, Alessandria 1936-38; Houses in Milan; Baths, Ischia; House at Lesa; Apartments, Alessandria; Gallery, Milan; Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro; The Casino at Pampulha by Oscar Niemeyer; Pedregulho, Rio de Janeiro; Belo Horizonte, the State Capital of Minas Gerais; Church of St. Francis, Pampulha; Flats in Tapiola, Helsinki; Detached Houses, Helsinki; Apartment Block, Turku; Apartment Block, Vaasa; Terrace House, Jollas, Helsinki; Apartment Block, Turku; Apartment Block, Vaasa; Terrace House, Jollas, Helsinki; Terrace Houses, Kotka, Sunila; Teerace Houses, Maunola, Helsinki; Private House, Muuratsalo; Villa, Kuusisto, Turku; Voldemar Baeckman's Villa near Tammisaari; Business Block "Rautatalo" Helsinki; Office Building, Voimatalo; Factory for ENSO, Gutzeit; Nuojua Power Station, Oulujoki; Power Station, Pohjolan Voima, Kemi; Water Tower, Riihimaki; Central Hospital, Jyvaskyla; Olympic Stadium, Helsinki; Annexe, Radium Treatment Home, Helsinki; Elementary School, Solf; Library for the Finnish University of Turku; Central Trade School, Jyvaskyla; Teacher's High School, Helsinki; Saynatsalo Municipal Buildings; Church in Salla; Church in Meilahti, Helsinki; Funeral Chapel in Turku; Sculpture Pavilion, Arnhem; Halsingborg Exhibition; H. 55 The '55 Bar with Stepped Terraces, General View from the Bridge and Typical Small Buildings and Courtyard; H. 55 Swedish Design Pavilion at the end of the Jetty; South Bank Exhibition, London 1951; Flats at Lambeth, London; Flats at Hammersmith; House at St. Paul's Cray, Kent; House at Leicester; School in Derbyshire; Catford Couty Secondary School, London; School at Royston, Hertfordshire; Mayfield School, Putney, London; School at Paddington, London.
