A. QUINCY JONES: THE ONENESS OF ARCHITECTURE
PROCESS ARCHITECTURE No. 41
Inscribed by Elaine K. Sewell Jones
A. Quincy Jones: A. QUINCY JONES: THE ONENESS OF ARCHITECTURE [PROCESS ARCHITECTURE No. 41]. Tokyo: Process Architecture Publishing Co., 1983. First edition. Text in English and Japanese. An uncirculated Ex-University Library copy with a single "withdrawn" stamp to title page and a small sticker remnant. Gift inscription by Elaine K. Sewell Jones on title page. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Other than the minimal exlibris marks, a nearly fine copy with a nice association.
Warmly inscribed to Houston architect Karl Kamrath and his wife Gardinia by Elaine K. Sewell Jones, a publicist for Herman Miller and renowned advocate of Californian Design who was also married to Architect A. Quincy Jones. During her lengthy career, Jones handled public relations for T&O, the short-lived Textiles & Objects Shop in New York City.
8.75 x 11.75 perfect-bound magazine with 164 pages profusely illustrated in color and b/w -- a richly illustrated comprehensive monograph on important post-war Los Angeles architect A Quincy Jones - filled with plans, renderings and photographs (including many by Julius Shulman).
Includes the Town & Country Center, Palm Springs; the Nordlinger Houses; the Emmons House; U.S. Gypsum Research Village House, Barrington, Illinois; Eichler Steel House X-100; Palm Springs Tennis Club Addition; Nordlinger House; Hvistendahl House; Case Study House No. 24; and many other projects.
Archibald Quincy Jones, FAIA, (1913 - 1979) was a prolific Los Angeles-based architect and educator known for innovative buildings in the modernist style and for urban planning that pioneered the use of greenbelts and green design. From 1939 to 1940 he worked for the renowned architect, Paul R. Williams. Next he worked for Allied Engineers, Inc. of San Pedro from 1940 to 1942, where he met the architect Frederick Emmons, with whom he would later partner. Jones was responsible for the development and layout of Roosevelt Base in San Pedro and the Naval Reserve Air Base in Los Alamitos.
Jones also participated in John Entenza's Case Study House program. The December 1950 issue of the magazine Architectural Forum featured a 'Builder's House of the Year' designed by A. Quincy Jones. The same issue also awarded the innovative Palo Alto building magnate Joseph Eichler 'Subdivision of the Year.' Eichler then invited Jones to tour the Palo Alto development he had just completed where he suggested to Jones that the Builder of the Year team with the Architect of the Year. This relationship continued until Joseph Eichler's death in 1974.
The Eichler commission prompted Jones to form a partnership with his prewar acquaintance, the architect Frederick Emmons. The Jones and Emmons partnership lasted from the early months of 1951 until Emmons' retirement in December 1969. Their efforts and designs are reflected in some 5,000 of Eichler's homes by Emmons' estimate. Jones and Emmons were awarded national AIA Firm of the Year in 1969.
Jones raised the tract house in California from the simple stucco box to a logically designed structure integrated into the landscape and surrounded by greenbelts. He introduced new materials as well as a new way of living within the built environment and popularized an informal, outdoor-oriented open plan. More than just abstractions of the suburban ranch house, most Jones and Emmons designs incorporated a usable atrium, high ceilings, post-and-beam construction and walls of glass. For the postwar moderate-income family, his work bridged the gap between custom-built and developer-built homes.