PERSPECTA 4
THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL
Marshall Meyers [Editor]
Marshall Meyers [Editor]: PERSPECTA 4: THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL. New Haven, CT: Departments of Architecture and Design, Yale University, 1957. Square Quarto. Perfect-bound and side-stitched stiff, printed wrappers. 68 pp. Text and illustrations. Design by Elton Robinson. Wrappers lightly worn and lower corner bumped, but a very good or better copy housed in the original mailing envelope with an 8-cent postal cancellation.
9.5 x 11.75 journal with 68 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. An excellent opportunity to acquire a significant piece of American architectural history.
- Toward a Redefinition of Style by Vincent Scully, Jr.
- Regionalism in Architecture by Paul Rudolph
- Design and Technology in Hagia Sophia by William MacDonald
- Realism Reconsidered by Ben Shahn: includes a 5 panel fold-out of a sketch for a 48' X 8' mosaic mural to be installed in the New Brady High School, Brooklyn, NY
- The Pliable Plane; Textiles in Architecture by Anni Albers
- Eric Mendelsohn: From His Writing and Sketches (8 pages with 7 black and white illustrations)
- Richard Neutra: Notes to the Young Architect (8 pages with 8 black and white illustrations)
- Louis Kahn: Order in Architecture (8 pages with 10 black and white illustrations) in association with Anne W. Tyng.
- Henri Matisse: A Letter
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."