PERSPECTA 7
THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL
James Baker [Editor]
James Baker [Editor]: PERSPECTA 7: THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL. New Haven, CT: Departments of Architecture and Design, Yale University, 1961. Square Quarto. Perfect-bound and side-stitched stiff, printed wrappers. Publishers obi. 102 pp. Text and illustrations. Index for Perspectas 4, 5, and 6 and business reply envelope laid in. Design by Joe Watson. A fine copy preserved in the original mailing envelope with an undated postage cancellation.
9.5 x 11.75 journal with 80 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.
- Philip Johnson: 6 pages with 13 black and white illustrations of the Sheldon Art Gallery, a Benedictine Priory, a Pavilion for his New Canaan property and the Union Air Terminal Building at Idlewild
- Louis Kahn: 20 pages with 14 black and white text illustrations and 15 black and white illustrations of the Goldberg House (Rydal, PN), the American Consulate (Luanda, Portugese Angola) and a Unitarian Church (Rochester, NY)
- Eero Saarinen: 14 pages with 21 black and white illustrations of the World Health Organization Headquarters (Geneva, Switzerland), the Samuel F. B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Yale University and the John Deere and Company Administration Center (Moline, IL)
- John Johansen: Act and Behavior in Architecture
- Paul Rudolph: 14 pages with 26 black and white illustrations of Yale University Married Student Housing, Yale University Art and Architectural School Building and Milam House (St. John's County, Florida)
- The Future of the Past by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (includes work by Peter Behrens, Eero Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn
- Notes on American Architecture by James Gowan (includes work by Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Twitchell and Rudolph, R. M. Schindler, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn)
- The Exploded Landscape by Walter McQuade (includes work by Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, John Johansen and Louis Kahn)
- Form-givers: Peter Collins
- Open and Closed: Colin St. John Wilson (includes work by Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, Hugo Haering, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn
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."