PERSPECTA 11
THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL
Peter de Brettevile and Arthur Golding [Editors]
Peter de Brettevile and Arthur Golding [Editors]: PERSPECTA 11: THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL. New Haven, CT: Departments of Architecture and Design, Yale University, 1967. Quarto. Perfect-bound and side-stitched limp printed silver-coated plastic wrappers [!]. 228 pp. Text and illustrations. Trivial rubbing to the plastic wrappers. Beautifully preserved copy housed in the original, matching mailing box. A fine copy of this early issue of the influential journal.
9.5 x 11.75 journal with 228 pages heavily illustrated with original artwork, photography, plans and diagrams with a few trade advertisements. Limited circulation and uncertain financial backing have combined to make the early issues of Perspecta notoriously difficult to locate. A significant piece of American architectural history.
- Forewords
- An Interview with Robert Theobald by the Editors
- Now and Then by Peter Millard
- Monumentality by Neil Welliver
- Plug It in, Rameses and See if it Lights up by Charles W. Moore [12 pages with 22 black and white illustrations including work by Paul Rudolph, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi and Donlyn Lyndon]
- Portfolio: 4 Sculptors [10 pages with 8 black and white illustrations of work by Don Judd, Dan Flavin, Claes Oldenberg and Robert Morris]
- Conversation on Urbanism by Shadrach Woods and Roger Vailland
- Vision '65: Summary lecture by R. Buckminster Fuller [6 pages, no illustrations]
- Questions by John Cage [7 beautifully typeset pages]
- Sixties Art: Some Philosophical Perspectives by Sheldon Nodelman [18 pages with 11 illustrations, 1 in color (Kenneth Noland) including work by Kenneth Noland, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Mark Rothko, Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline and Frank Stella]
- Conversation with James Stirling [2 pages, no illustrations]
- Portfolio: Complex Form by Matt Sharp [8 pages with 5 black and white illustrations of work by Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, Paul Georges, Neil Welliver and Fairfield Porter]
- 3 Projects by Robert Venturi [9 well-illustrated pages include the FDR Memorial Competition (Architecture and landscape); Fountain Competition, Philadelphia Fairmount Park Competition (Architecture and sculpture); and, Copley Square Competition (Architecture and city planning)]
- Re:Vision by Stan Vanderbeek
- World Dwelling by John McHale
- Amazing Archigram: A Supplement [24 pages with 18 of the pages well-illustrated]
- Democratic Planning by Paul Davidoff
- The Invisible Environment: The Future of an Erosion by Marshall McLuhan [7-page article]
- On Art and Architecture by Al Held
- Obsolescence by George Nelson [6-page article]
- Portfolio: Architecture [41 pages with 28 projects including work by Kenzo Tange, John Andrews, James Stirling, SOM, Kiyoshi Kawasaki, A. & P. G. Castiglioni, Airstream, Inc., Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Moishe Safdie, Charles Moore, George Nelson & Company, Noriaki Kurokawa, Le Corbusier, G. Komatsu Industrial Design Associates, Office of Earl P. Carlin, Robert Venturi and the Office of Max O. Urbahn among others
Founded in 1952, Perspecta is the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the United States and the first that devoted its pages to the artistic, historical and theoretical aspects of architecture. From its earliest issues, essays published in Perspecta changed the way people thought about architecture. Highly recommended for both form and content.
"The publication of Perspecta marked the beginning of a new kind of critical discourse about architecture," said Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. "Although Perspecta was never a mass-market publication, its impact on the field has belied its numbers. The journal was -- and continues to be -- an intellectual showpiece for the Yale School of Architecture and an important presence in the design community."