COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS
The Pencil Points Series — 1932–1935
Ralph Reinhold [foreword]
Ralph Reinhold [foreword]: COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS [The Pencil Points Series — 1932–1935]. New York: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1934/1935. Original Edition. Slim quarto. Publishers printed tongue binder with three brads. [126] pp. Fully illustrated with line art and halftone illustrations. Publishers offprint of collected architectural details for 1934 and 1935. Covers with edgewear and mild sunning. Textblock mildly thumbed, so a very good copy of this scarce collection.
8.25 x 11.25 collection of black and white architectural details published from 1934–1935 in”Pencil Points,” the forerunner of ”Progressive Architecture.”
Categories include:
- 1934: Door Hoods, Exterior Steps, Eaves and Gutters, Dormers, Chimneys, Second Story Overhangs, Interior Woodwork, Fireplaces, Radiator Enclosures, Residence Bars, and Fences and Gates Stone Textures.
- 1935: Gambrel Gables, Corner Cupboards, Exterior Doors—English, Bay Windows, Closets, Oriel Windows, Balconies, and Bookshelving.
Includes work by Dwight James Baum, George Pretice Butler, Charles H. Higgins, Electus D. Litchfield, William Platt, Lewis E. Welsh, Evans Moore & Woodbridge, Maximillian R. Johnke, Frank J. Forster, Davis & Walldorf, Patterson & King, Will Rice Amon & Thomas E. Graecen, Roger Bullard, William F. Dominick, Treanor & Fatio, Julius Gregory, Bernhardt E. Muller, Louis Bowman, Cameron Clark, John Russell Pope, Andrew J. Thomas, Almus Pratt Evans, Charles S. Keefe, R. A. Gallimore, Benjamin Betts, James C. Mackenzie, Jr., Francis Y. Joannes, Peabody Wilson & Brown, Edgar Williams, William F. Dominick, James W. O’connor, Hunter Mcdonnell, W. Stanwood Phillips, Eugene Lang, Grosvenor Atterbury, Ford Butler & Oliver, Aymar Embry, Pleasants Pennington, Perry Duncan, Walker & Gillette, Polhemus & Coffin, Ralph Walker, Joseph Urban, Henry Otis Chapman, Lawrence Loeb, James Bevan, Delano & Aldrich, Walter Bradnee Kirby, Waldron Faulkner, Robert Scannell, F. Burrall & Murray Hoffman, Melvin Pratt Spalding, Clark & Arms, Waldron Faulkner, Dwight James Baum, C. C. Wendehack, Godwinn Thompson & Patterson, Alfred Easton Poor, Bradley Delehanty, Hopkins & Dentz, Harris Lindeberg, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, William Dominick, Howard & Frenaye, Merrill Humble & Taylor, Henry Otis Chapman, Robert Perry, Geville Richard, Robert H. Dana, J. D. Tullis, Delano & Aldrich, Rodgers & Poor, H. Philip Staats, Mellor & Meigs, Eugene Lang, W. Pope Barney, and others.
The first issue of the legendary architecture journal Pencil Points appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of The Architectural Review, and merged with Progressive Architecture in 1943, Pencil Points became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It also established the agenda in architectural theory: multi volume pieces by John Harbeson, Talbot Hamlin, Hugh Ferriss, and others dealt with major issues that are still relevant today-architectural education and practice, small-house design and portable housing, city planning, and the influence (or not) of modernism. Items like George Nelson's series of reports from Europe in the early 1930s, H. Van Buren Magonigle's diatribes against modernism, and a glossary of Ecole des Beaux-Arts terms sit side-by-side with the best architectural drawings and photographs of the 20th century.