THE AMERICAN HOUSE TODAY
Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas H. Creighton
Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas H. Creighton: THE AMERICAN HOUSE TODAY. NYC: Reinhold, 1951. First edition. Quarto. Red cloth stamped in black. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 240 pp. 380 black and white photographs and 120 plans of 85 houses. Jacket lightly offset and mildly soiled. A nearly fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket.
8.5 x 10.5 hardcover bookwith 240 pages, with 380 black and white photographs and 120 plans of 85 notable examples of American Housing as chosen by the editors of Progressive Architecture.This book is a veritable rosetta stone for people interested in postwar modernism that was produced under (often severe) budget constraints. No Kaufmann Houses here -- just thoughtfully planned and brilliantly executed modern housing.
This book 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. Along with Living Spaces by George Nelson, this book is one of the classic pictorial records of modern residential architecture in Post-war America.
Architects whose work appears in this volume include: Gregory Ain, Harris Armstrong, Paul Beidler, Pietro Belluschi, Walter Bognar, Marcel Breuer, Clark and Frey, Alexander Cochran, W. Danforth Compton, Mario Corbett, J. R. Davidson, Dewitt and Swank, Dickinson, Woodbridge and Lawrence Test, Alden Dow, Blaine Drake, Gordon Drake, Charles Eames, Joseph Esherick, John Funk, J. Glass, Charles Goodman, Harwell Hamilton Harris, David Henken, Henry Hill, Victorine and Samuel Homsey, Douglas Honnold, Victor Hornbein, E. H. Hunter Philip Johnson, A. Quincy Jones, Louis Kahn, Henry Kamphoefner and George Matsumoto, Kenneth Kassler, George Fred Keck, William Keck, Bernard Kessler, Alexander Knowlton, Fred Langhorst, William Lescaze, Robert Little, Maynard Lyndon, Mac Kie and Kamrath, Carl Louis Maston, Clarence Mayhew, Richard Neutra, Ernst Payer, Igor Polevitzky, L. L. Rado, Antonin Raymond, Carleton Richmond, Jan Ruhtenberg, Runnels Clark Waugh and Matsumoto, Schweikher and Elting, Raphael Soriano, Spaulding Sumner and John Rex, Stevens and Wilkinson, Edward D. Stone, Hugh Stubbins, Edgar Tafel, Lawrence Test, Paul Thiry, Thorshov and Cherny, Robert Vahlberg, Rodney Walker, William and Samuel Weiner, Wischmeyer and Lorenz, Wurster Bernardi and Emmons and L. Morgan Yost
Photographers include Hedrich-Blessing, Andre Kertesz (!), Ulric Meisel, Joseph Molitor, Arnold Newman, Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller and others.