MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA [Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects, 1949 – 1961]. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Press, 1961. Wolf von Eckardt [Editor]

MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA
Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects
1949 – 1961

Wolf von Eckardt [Editor], Philip Will, Jr. [foreword]

Wolf von Eckardt [Editor and introduction], Philip Will, Jr. [foreword]: MID-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA [Honor Awards of the American Institute of Architects, 1949 – 1961]. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Press, 1961. First edition. Quarto. Olive cloth titled in black. photo illustrated dust jacket. 254 pp. Approximately 375 black and white illustrations. Jacket lightly rubbed and worn, but a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book with 254 pages with approx. 375 black and white illustrations. Includes beautiful architectural photography by the likes of Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller and Hedrich-Blessing. From the book: "The battle for modern design in American architecture was finished and won about mid-century. Now that it has its place in the sun, what are our architects doing? What does their work look like?" The battle, but not the war?

• Office Buildings: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, William S. Beckett, Richard J. Neutra, Pereira & Luckman, Philip C. Johnson, I. M. Pei and Assoc. and Minoru Yamasaki among others
• Commercial Buildings: Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, Welton D. Becket, Victor D. Gruen, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Hellmuth, Yamasaki & Leinweber, Pereira & Luckman and Victor A. Lundy
• Hotels and Restaurants: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Victor A. Lundy and John Carl Warnecke among others
• Public Buildings: William Henley Deitrick, Pereira & Luckman, Rogers, Taliaferro & Lamb, Richard J. Neutra, Ralph Rapson and John Van Der Muhlen, Caudill, Rowlett, Scott & Assoc., Welton Becket & Assoc., Paul Thiry, Antonin Raymond & L. L. Rado, Eero Saarinen & Assoc., and Edward D. Stone among others
• Industrial Buildings: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Eero Saarinen and Assoc., Edward D. Stone, Pereira & Luckman and Philip Johnson among others
• Medical Buildings: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Milton Foy Martin and Yamasaki, Leinweber & Assoc. among others
• Religious Buildings: A. Quincy Jones & Frederick E. Emmons, Anshen and Allen, Antonin Raymond and L. L. Rado, Alden B. Dow, Philip Johnson, Pitro Belluschi, Victor A. Lundy, Hugh Stubbins and Assoc. and Wallace Neff among others
• Campus Buildings: Neutra and Alexander, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Eero Saarinen & Assoc., Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons and Minoru Yamasaki and Assoc. among others
• Schools: Donald Barthelme, John Carl Warnecke and Assoc., Ernest J. Kump, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Caudill, Rowlett & Scott, Minoru Yamasaki and Assoc. and Mario J. Ciampi among others
• Residences and Apartments: Fred Langhorst, Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons, Carl Koch and Assoc., Arthur T. Brown, A. Quincy Jones, Twitchell & Rudolph, Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., Mario F. Corbett, L. Morgan Yost, Raphael S. Soriano, Anshen & Allen, Richard J. Neutra, Carl Koch, Philip Johnson, Bassetti & Morse, Charles M. Goodman, Eliot Noyes, George Matsumoto, Thornton Ladd, Ulrich Franzen, John Carl Warnecke & Assoc. and Ralph Rapson among others
• Chronological Listing of Awards
• Biographical Notes
• Index