RECORD HOUSES OF 1961
The Architectural Record, Mid-May 1961
Architectural Record [Editors]
The Staff of Architectural Record: RECORD HOUSES OF 1961. New York: F. W. Dodge Corporation, The Architectural Record, Mid-May 1961. A very good or better perfect-bound and side-stapled magazine in lightly-worn, creased and spotted wrappers. Previous owner inked hash marks next to several entries on tha table of contents, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.625 x 11.5 perfect-bound magazine with 180 pages devoted to "20 of the Year's Finest Architect-Designed Houses Shown in 185 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 sixth of these special issues.
The Twenty Houses of 1961, their designers, the clients and the locations:
- Roy Sigvard Johnson: House For Mr. & Mrs. Eliot Erwitt, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY. Interior Photographs By Magnum's Eliott Erwitt.
- Richard Neutra: House For Henry Singleton, Los Angeles, CA
- Edward J. Seibert: House For T. H. Mitchell, Sarasota, FL
- Norman F. Carver, Jr.: House For Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Rogers, Mr. & Mrs. Bowers, And Mr. Starring, Kalamazoo, MI
- Marcel Breuer: House For Arthur V. Hopper, Baltimore, MD
- Paul Hayden Kirk: Wood Research House, Bellevue, WA
- John L. Field: House For Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Alter, Los Altos Hills, CA
- Robert B. Browne: House For Mr. & Mrs. John R. Vereen, Coconut Grove, Miami, FL
- Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum: House For John L. Wilson, Ladue, MO
- Jules Gregory: Architect And Owner, Lambertville, NJ
- Buff, Straub & Hensman: House For Mr. & Mrs. Porter Jared, Los Angeles, CA
- Joan & Ken Warriner: Architect And Owner, Sarasota, FL
- Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon: House For Mr. & Mrs. Hoffberger, Washington, DC
- Merrill, Sims & Roehrig: House For Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Roehrig, Honolulu, HI
- Frank Schlesinger: Architect And Owner, Doylestown, PA
- The Architects Collaborative: House In Norton, MA
- Gunnar Birkerts & Frank Staub: House For Mr. & Mrs. Alan Schwatz, Northville, MI
- George Matsumoto: House For Mr. & Mrs. Kirkwood F. Adams, Roanoke Rapids, NC
- Sam B. Short & G. Ross Murrell: House For Mr. & Mrs. Clyde Shaw, Baton Rouge, LA
- Meathe, Kessler & Associates: House For Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Beckwith, Franklin Hills, MI
The sixth 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 1961 modern design, interiors and furniture photographed by Morley Baer, Ernest Braun, Norman F. Carver, Jr., Eliott Erwitt, Art Filmore, Balthazar Korab, Robert Lautman, Bill Margerin, Frank Lotz Miller, Joseph Militor, Marc Neuhof, Ben Schnall, Julius Shulman, and Williams Photography of Honolulu.