SELECTED HOUSES FROM PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE
Thomas Creighton [foreword]
Thomas Creighton [foreword]: SELECTED HOUSES FROM PROGRESSIVE ARCHITECTURE. New York: Reinhold, n. d [circa 1955]. First edition. Quarto. Thick printed wrappers. Publishers plastic coil binding. 160 pp. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and details. Wrappers lightly chipped along binding perforations, otherwise a very good or better copy.
8.25 x 11 plastic coil bound book with 160 pages fully illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and details.
Postwar American residential architecture collection organized in five sections:
- The Single Family House
- Residential Design Solutions
- Residential Interior Studies
- House Structural Data Sheets
- Structural Experiment-Houses
SELECTED HOUSES spotlights some of the lesser-known structures of the period, thus supplying a more unique perspective than similar volumes that tend to showcase the iconic residences. Interior photography by Ezra Stoller, Bill Hedrich-Blessing, Joseph Molitor, Julius Shulman and others.
Includes residential designs, interiors and selected details by The Architects Collaborative [TAC x 2], Henry Hill [x 5], Eckbo, Royston & Williams, Martin Kermacy, Hugh Stubbins [x 3], Leland L. Evison, Conrad E. Green [x 3], W. F. Severin, League, Warren & Riley, Jan Ruhtenberg, A. B. Swank, Roger Lee, Leinweber, Yamasaki & Hellmuth, Edgardo Contini, Robert E. Buchner, Robert Carroll May, Fehr & Granger, David T. Henken [x 2], Eliot Noyes, Abraham Geller, Bertrand Goldberg, A. L. Aydelott & Associates, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, Swanson Associates, Jens Risom, Edward Durell Stone [x 4], Lippincott & Margulies, George Nemeny & Abraham W. Geller, Martin Glaberson, Bolton White & Jack Hermann, A. L. Aydelott, C. E. Stousland, J. R. Davidson, Pietro Belluschi, James F. Jones, Vernon Sears, Confer & Ostwald, Dan Cooper, Campbell & Wong, Victor Gruen, Arthur Louis Finn, Gordon Drake, Richard S. Colley, Craig Ellwood, Roger Lee, Arthur F. Deam, James M. Hunter, J. P. Trouchard [x 2], Ernst Payer, Richard Neutra, Igor Polevitzky, Alfred Bush, and others.