PERSPECTA 6
THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL
James Baker [Editor]
New Haven, CT: Departments of Architecture and Design, Yale University, 1960. Square Quarto. Perfect-bound and side-stitched stiff, printed French-folded wrappers. 98 pp. Text and illustrations. Designed by John Hill. Upper corner gently bumped, but a nearly fine copy housed in the original mailing mailing envelope with illegible New Haven mailing cancellation.
9.5 x 11.75 journal with 98 pages heavily illustrated with original artwork, photography, plans and diagrams with a few trade advertisements. Issue design and typography by John Hill. 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.
- Food for Changing Sensibility by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
- A Failure of Architectural Purism by Francois Bucher
- Hadrian's Villa by Charles Moore
- The Work of Charles Edouard Jeanneret: The Little Known Early Work of Le Corbusier (6 pages with 9 black and white illustrations)
- Some Aspects of Japanese Architecture by Walter Dodd Ramberg
- Machu Picchu by George Kubler
- Nineteenth Century Design by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- The Observatories of the Maharajah Sawai Jai Singh II: Photographs by Isamu Noguchi: 10 pages with 12 photographs
- Mykonos and Patmos by Paul Mitarichi and Robert Ernest
- The "Functional Tradition" and Expression by James Stirling
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."