NEW PENCIL POINTS
March 1943
Kenneth Reid [Editor]
Kenneth Reid [Editor]: NEW PENCIL POINTS. East Stroudsburg, PA: Reinhold Publishing Company [Volume 24, Number 3] March 1943. Original edition. Slim quarto. Side stitched printed wrappers. 102 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Wrappers lightly rubbed and soiled with mild spine wear. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover design, layout and typography by Bernard Rudofsky. A very good copy.
8.75 x 11.75 original magazine with 102 pages and numerous illustrations. "Pencil Points," the forerunner of "Progressive Architecture" embraced the streamline moderne aesthetic in the arts.
- Letters to and from readers: Reaction to content and format, and an open letter to Congress on the subject of funds for the National resources Planning Board
- Products Progress: New products of interest to the profession
- The Invisible Client: Editorial by Kenneth Reid
- Cities Should be Places to Live In by Harry S. Churchill, AIA
- News: Not all Architecture, strictly speaking, but affecting architects
- Chicago Plans
- Chicago has prepared a human, livable scheme for rebuilding one of the great cities of the world. The comprehensive presentation was prepared jointly by the Chicago Plan Commission and the Editors of New Pencil Points [30 well illustrated pages]
- The Architecture of the Future -- Part 1 -- Postwar Design: Architecture of Democracy: First of a Series of Four Articles by Talbot F. Hamlin
- Discussions on Urbanism
- Selected Details: Work of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, Architects [2 illustrated pages of a Cantilevered Stairway]; Leon Barmache and Vinicio Paladini, Designers
- Manufacturers' Literature
- Competition Announcements
- Reviews: Including a Selected Bibliography on City Planning by Maurice Rotival; an Annotated Bibliography of Planning Literature by Margaret Greenough King, book reviews by Konrad Whitman and others
- General Advertising: an excellent assortment of vintage trade advertisments