Title & Author:
Pencil points reader : a journal for the drafting room, 1920-1943 / edited by George E. Hartman and Jan Cigliano ; introduction by John Morris Dixon.
Publication:
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
Description:
xxv, 654 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
Series:
Princeton Architectural Press classic reprint series
Notes:
Includes index.
"Re-publishes the most important essays from the journal's twenty-three years"--Editor's pref.
Introduction / John Morris Dixon -- 1920 -- Introductory : early issues of pencil points -- Prize award in pencil points cover design competition -- Notes on drafting / Oliver Reagan -- men who know -- 1921 -- What is ahead? -- Three stages of a rendering / Hugh Ferriss -- study of architectural design : the beaux-arts method / John F. Harbeson -- broad view -- Finding out what the client wants / Francis S. Swales -- Taking Hold -- study of architectural design, the "analytique" or order problem, part V / John F. Harbeson -- New Worlds -- Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola -- B.A. in architecture -- study of architectural design, class B. plan problem / John F. Harbeson -- 1922 -- Twelfth-night in Mr. Goodhue's office -- Architectural training -- vocabulary of atelier French / Raymond M. Hood -- Architecture and the community -- 1923 -- Specifications and personality / John Vredenburgh Van Pelt -- Zoning and the envelope of the building / Harvey W. Corbett -- study of architectural design, the measured drawing / John E. Harbeson -- Wanted -- study of architectural design, the psychology of success / John E. Harbeson -- making of an architect -- How to bind your pencil points / C.W. Branson -- Visualization -- complete body of architecture -- 1924 -- System? -- Architectural humanities / William Emerson -- sketch problem, part IV / John F. Harbeson -- Selling architecture -- Master draftsmen, V -- Francis H. Bacon / Francis S. Swales -- Ships as architecture / Francis S. Swales -- designer and the "practical man" -- English for students of architecture / Karl O. Thompson -- 1925 -- Living architecture -- Temperament -- Roman lettering from "exempla scripturae epigraphicae Latinae" -- Looking backward -- and foreword -- Thumbnail sketches / Arthur L. Guptill -- architect's opportunity -- 1926 -- What do we owe each other? -- Giovanni-Battista Piranesi -- Draw, draw, draw! -- genesis of measured drawings / Kenneth Clark -- relationship between the architect and the draftsman / Irving K. Pond -- 1927 -- city of the future ... steel, advertisement -- Planning methods for large institutions / George R. Wadsworth -- Planning methods for large institutions, II / George R. Wadsworth -- In the library / Walter H. Judell -- Ramblings / F.W. Fitzpatrick -- Architecture in motion pictures / Harold Miles -- Architecture -- the sick profession / Charles Kyson -- Strike a blow for the profession of architecture! -- Painless extraction / Charles Kyson -- Honesty -- 1928 -- Whittlings -- "Modern architecture," poem / H.A. Kennison -- experiment in architectural teaching / Seward Hume Rathbun -- 1929 -- Thoughts on modern, and other, ornament / Rayne Adams -- exhibition of contemporary American art -- champion wanted -- Here and there and this and that -- 1930 -- architect, the draftsman, and 1930! -- Design in modern architecture, I -- what is modern? / John F. Harbeson -- Design in modern architecture, II -- the modern plan / John F. Harbeson -- Design in modern architecture, III -- the city to tomorrow / John F. Harbeson -- Design in modern architecture, IV -- the modern interior / John F. Harbeson -- story of an architect / Anonymous -- Five disorders of architecture, cartoon / J.H. Bell -- Highlights of architecture, Pharaohs architect makes a mistake, cartoon / Arthur F. Baer -- road from rome / John A. Frank -- small modern apartment / John Vassos -- Modernism / W. Francklyn Paris -- 1931 -- Modernism is still in the making / Wells Bennett -- Impressions of modern architecture, 1 -- the search for a direct manner of expression in design / William Ward Watkin -- Don't come to New York for work / Robert D. Kohn -- rockefeller building project in mid-town New York -- 1932 -- decorative alphabet of initials / Ezra C. Stiles -- cultural advantages of unemployment / William Williams -- Functional aesthetics and the social ideal / George Howe -- Here and there and this and that, the spizzerinktum / Charles A. Miller -- approach to design / Albert H. Kahn -- Traveling double / Sylvia Starr Wertz -- Traveling double, part 2 / Sylvia Starr Wertz -- "My Daxian," poem / William Adams Delano -- Christmas, 1932 model -- 1933 -- new era? -- Here and there and this and that -- whole extent of architecture in Cleveland at this time, cartoon / Arthur F. Baer -- Changes in architectural education / E. Raymond Bossange -- Why not a central school? / Lloyd Morgan -- 1934 -- half century of architecture, 1 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- half century of architecture, 2 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- half century of architecture, 3 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- half century of architecture, 4 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- half century of architecture, 5 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- half century of architecture, 6 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- half century of architecture, 7 / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground," I -- the role of critic / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground," II -- U.S. architecture is a regional affair / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground," IV -- campus architecture : why gothic? / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground," V -- craftsmanship and composition / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground," VI -- wake up!! / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground," VII -- rehabilitate the profession / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- H.A.B.S. / Alexaner Carl Guth -- 1935 -- To wish you all a happy New Year -- "The upper ground" -- architectural education / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground" -- competitions / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground" -- modern and modernistic / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground" -- architectural journalism / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground" -- the architect and engineer / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- Architects of Europe today 5 -- LeCorbusier, France / George Nelson -- "The upper ground" -- draftsmanship / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "The upper ground" -- draftsmanship, II / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- Architects of Europe today 7 -- Van Der Rohe, Germany / George Nelson -- "The upper ground" -- modernism / H. Van Buren Magonigle -- "A conscientious artist," H. Van Buren Magonigle, F.A.I.A., 1867-1935 / Francis P. Sullivan -- 1936 -- To stimulate renovization / Bloodgood Tuttle -- Greenbelt planning / John Dreier -- Symposium upon dietetic design / Katherine Stanley-Brown -- 1937 -- Architectural education / Ralph Walker -- aesthetics of efficiency / Ralph Walker -- "city of more abundant life" -- Craftsmanship / Ralph Walker -- future of American design / Theodore Crane -- 1938 -- contemporary American style / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Throw that legacy away / Robert L. Anderson -- Rome prize competition of 1938 / Erling F. Iversen -- Of houses as places to live / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Competitions / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Pen and ink drawings of architectural monuments / Frederick H. Kock -- Bedlam and confusion / Robert L. Anderson -- 1939 -- Architecture, people and the Bauhaus / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Ah, jobless youth / Eugene Raskin -- Built-in furniture, comparative details / Richard J. Neutra, C. Coggeshall, Savery Scheetz, Gilmour, Edward D. Stone, Carl Koch and Vahan Hagopian / Hays, Simpson and Hunsicker -- Challenge to the architect / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Is architecture going to the Bauhaus / Eugene Raskin -- Architecture of the TVA / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Bridge rails, comparative details -- 1940 -- To the readers of pencil points / Kenneth Reid -- Architecture in nineteen-sixty? / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Washington National Airport / John Stuart -- 1941 -- Critical youth wields the flail : what the student expects/what the critic expects / Richard M. Bennett -- Critical youth wilds the flail : romance is not dead / Paul Pippin -- Yeast from the West / Kenneth Reid.
Reaction under pressure / Kenneth Reid -- 1942 -- We must look ahead / Arthur B. Holmes and Joseph Hirsh -- business of war has no future / Don Graf -- Portable housing / Carroll A. Towne -- Peace can gain from war's forced changes / Richard J. Neutra -- Battle of planning / Kenneth Reid -- 1943 -- Today we produce to destroy, but tomorrow we will produce to build / Charles M.A. Stine -- Furniture -- invisible client / Kenneth Reid -- Cities should be places to live in / Henry S. Churchill -- architecture of the future, part 1 -- postwar design : architecture of democracy / Talbot F. Hamlin -- architecture of the future, part 2 -- techniques, materials, and design / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Notes on patios -- architecture of the future, part 3 -- architectural practice after the war / Talbot F. Hamlin -- Who is American? / Kenneth Reid -- American house / Kenneth Reid.
Dust jacket.
Summary:
"Pencil Points Reader republishes the most interesting essays from the seminal journal's twenty-three years and offers an insider's introduction by John Morris Dixon, the last executive editor of Progressive Architecture. Chronicling the growth of a journal for the drafting room to an international architectural review, this brand collection samples an era of architectural history and maintains the journal's founding claim, something for everyone in the architectural professions."--Jacket.
ISBN:
1568983522
9781568983523
Subject:
Pencil points (East Stroudsburg, Pa. : 1920)
Architectural drawing United States.
Architectural design United States.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Design architectural États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architectural drawing.
Architecture.
Architecture United States 20th century
Architecture, Modern 20th century
United States.
Form/genre:
Essays.
History.
Added entries:
Hartman, George E.
Hartman, Jan Cigliano.
Cigliano, Jan
Dixon, John, 1933-
Princeton Architectural Press classic reprint series.
Holdings:
Location: Library main 231190
Call No.: NA2706.U6 P4 2004
Status: Available
