RECORD HOUSES OF 1962
The Architectural Record, Mid-May 1962
Architectural Record [Editors]
The Staff of Architectural Record: RECORD HOUSES OF 1962. New York: F. W. Dodge Corporation, The Architectural Record, Mid-May 1962. 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 170 pages devoted to "20 of the Year's Finest Architect-Designed Houses Shown in 180 Photographs, Plans and Drawings" Generously illustrated in black and white and (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 is devoted to showcasing "exceptionally fine houses", newly built that year. This publication is the ninth of these special issues.
The Twenty Houses of 1962, their designers, the clients and the locations:
- Robert Damora: An Architect’s Answer to the Pre-Fab Tract House Problem. Development House for New Seabury. Cape Cod, MA.
- Paul Rudolph: Contemporary in the Grand Manner, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Ligget, Tampa, FL.
- Charles W. Moore & Richard C. Peters: Powerful Design Sets Tract Pace, Development House for Rey K. Hubbard, Corral De Tierra, CA.
- Ulrich Franzen & Associates: An Interplay of Pavilion Shapes Gives Residences Change of Pace, Residence in New London, CT.
- Kramer & Kramer: Modern to Fit a Traditional Code, Residence in Teaneck, NJ.
- Robert B. Browne: Casual Retirement House Gets Big Space with Folding Walls, Mr. R. S. Barrows, Marathon Shores, Key Vaca, FL.
- Roger Lee Associates: Tract House in Bay Region Style, Residence in Berkeley, CA.
- John Terence Kelly: A Modern House Reflects its Tudor Neighborhood, Dr. and Mrs. Harold McDonald, Gulf Farms, Elyria, OH.
- Elroy Webber Associates: $15,500 Buys Civility and Comfort, Dr. Virginia Galbraith, South Hadley, MA.
- Bassetti & Morse: Three-Part Plan Gives Good Scale, Stephen P. Wertheimer, Mercer Island, WA.
- George Fred Keck & William Keck: Curving House Design for Sweeping Design, Mrs. Frank E. Payne, Pleasant Valley, Bucks County, PN.
- Newton E. Griffith: Architect and Owner, Urbanity and Rusticity are Skillfully Combined, Edina, MN.
- Philip Johnson: Glass Living Pavilion Tops View, Residence on Lloyd’s Neck, Long Island, NY.
- Norman F. Carver, Jr.:Art and Craft Combined in Simple Structure, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Probasco, Kalamazoo, MI.
- Kuhn & Drake:Builder House of Concrete Offers Budget Luxury, Residence for R & S Builders, South Plainfield, NJ.
- James Edgar Stageberg: Designed for a Hilltop View, Dr. Roger Ewert, Minneapolis, MN.
- George S. Lewis:Artful Union of Size and Simplicity, Mr. and Mrs. David Hall Faile, Green Farms, Westport, CT.
- Ladd & Kelsey:Tract House in Good Modern Design, Development House for Laguna Niguel Corporation, South Laguna, CA.
- Robert Ernest:Architect and Owner, A Multi-Level House with Service Towers, Atlantic Beach, FL.
- George Matsumoto: Space Serves Both Art and Function, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thrower, Sedgefield, NC.
- Also includes sections on kitchens and bathroom, an index of the designers and photographers and estimated costs for the year’s Record Houses.
The ninth 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 1962 modern design, interiors and furniture photographed by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, and others.