RECORD HOUSES OF 1959
The Architectural Record, Mid-May 1959
Architectural Record [Editors]
The Staff of Architectural Record: RECORD HOUSES OF 1959. New York: F. W. Dodge Corporation, The Architectural Record, Mid-May 1959. A very good or better perfect-bound and side-stapled magazine in lightly-worn and spotted wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.625 x 11.5 perfect-bound magazine with 222 pages devoted to "20 of the Year's Finest Architect-Designed Houses Shown in 205 Photographs, Plans and Drawings" Generously illustrated in b&w (some color) photographs, floor plans, elevations and drawings of construction details; index of designers & firms in the issue accompanied by small portrait photos of each contributor and their address. Advertisements of the day throughout - primarily for home building materials and supplies.
In 1956, Architectural Record began an annual tradition of a special "Mid-May" issue: RECORD HOUSES -- a practice still in place today. Each issue was devoted to showcasing twenty "exceptionally fine houses", newly built that year. This publication is the fourth of these special issues.
The Twenty Houses of 1959, their designers, the clients and the locations:
- Jose Luis Sert: Architect/Owner, Cambridge, MA
- Paul Rudolph: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. F. A. Deering, Owners, Casey Key, FL
- Bolton And Barnstone: Architects. Mr. & Mrs. David Lindsay, Owners, Houston, TX
- Victor Lundy: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Dudley, Owners, Sarasota, FL
- Richard L. Dorman And Associates: Architects. Encino, CA
- William J. Conklin And Davis, Brody & Wisniewski: Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Bowen Sterling, Owners, Peeskill, NY
- A. L. Aydelott & Associates: Architects. Mrs. George Goldsmith, Owner, Helena, AR
- Eliot Noyes And Associates: Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bernhard, Owners, Port Chester, NY
- Robert Billsbrough Price: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. T. Harbine Monroe, Owners, Tacoma, WA
- Gyo Obata Of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum: Architect and owner. St. Louis, MO
- Goetz And Hansen: Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Goetz, Owners, Lafayette, CA
- Edward Larrabee Barnes: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Donald Miller, Jr., Owners, Chappaqua, NY
- Curtis & Davis And Associated Architects And Engineers: Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Julian Steinberg, Owners, New Orleans, LA
- Grider And La Marche: Architects. Builder House for Ralph Sherman, Boise, ID
- Ulrich Franzen: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. George Weissman, Owners, Rye, NY
- Joseph N. Smith: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Uricho, Owners, Miami, FL
- Craig Ellwood: Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Victor Hunt, Owners, Malibu, CA
- Hugh Stubbins & Associates: Architects. Rhode Island
- Ralph Rapson & Douglas Baird: Professor & Mrs. W. G. Shepherd, Owners, St. Paul, MN
- The Architects Collaborative: Architects. Mr.& Mrs. Carl Murchison, Owners, Provincetown, MA
The fourth year of the famed RECORD HOUSES annual issue. Fantastic, scarce volume of mid-century modern architecture featuring 20 exceptional houses, shown in photographs, plans and drawings. Features great 1959 modern design, interiors and furniture photographed by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, and others.