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Architectural Forum: the Magazine of Building, October 1951 BER 1951 ARCHITECTURAL FORUM THE MAGAZINE OF BUILDING m HOUSES ISSUE Arch/fecf & C//en' E/even oufsfanan juses, /nc/uding.- -Farnsworth house by Mies von der Rohe fp. 156; Second-sfory house by Miifon Ryan fp. J62; Portfolio of work by Harwell Harris (p. 166) Architect & Builder Five outstandirig houses, /"nc/uding.- Coogon's $6,850 design by Parker (p. 209) Eichler's $13,000 house by AnzhenS. Allen (p. 212) LevUfs' new $9,990 design fp. 217) Low-cost ways to improve low-cost houses (p. if6) Small house floor plans (p- 198) New ideas for better kitcher)s (p- 202) Builder round-up—plans for '52 (p- 206) Two new magazines for the industry (p. 153) ARCHITECTURAL FORUM THE MAGAZINE OF BUILDING OCTOBER 1951 NEWS 35 Published by TIME Incorporated LETTERS 83 EDITOH-IK-CBIEF Henry R. Luce PHEaiMjiT Roy E. Urten BEHIND THE BLUEPRINTS EDITORIAI. OniECTOR John Shaw Billings 130 REVIEWS Architectural Forum 140 THE MAGAZINE OF BUILDING EDITOR AND PUBLISHER EDITORIAL—Two new magazines for the industry 153 P. I. Prentice EXECUTIVE EDITOR HOUSES—Architect and Individual Client Joseph C Haiea. Jr. 155 ARCHITECTURAL EDITOR • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Farnsworth house in Fox River, III. Douglaa HaakelJ. AIA 156 ART DIRECTOR Milton Ryan, second story house in San Antonio. Tex. Paul Crotx 162 ASSOCIATES: Peter Blake, Cumey Breckenfeld, Louise Harwell Harris, three houses in Southern California Cooper, Mary Jane Lighlbown, Walter McQuade, Carl 166 Norcroaa, Boyce P. Price, Amnon Rubinstein, Richard Saunders (Washington). Madelaine Thatcher. (In mili• tary service: Wilson Dizard; Harry J. Middlelon.) Nemeny & Geller, three houses in Suburban New York ASSISTANTS: RoMlind KJein BerUn, Linn Ericaon, 175 Marilyn Grayboff, Henry T. Martin, Alice O'Connor, Nina Rabinowitx, Chloelhiel Woodard Smith (South Robert Kennedy, small house in Hingham, Mass. America). 184 MARKET RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Arthur S. Goldman. CONSULTANTS: Milea L. Colean, Ruth Goodhue. Twitchell & Rudolph, house on stilts in St. Petersburg, Fla. GENERAL MANAGER: Robert W. Chaateney. Jr. 186 CIRCULATION MANAGER: Walter F. Grueninger. Breger &. Salzman, house of tile in Brooklyn, N. Y. PRODUCTION MANAGER: Uwrenco W. Meater. 190 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR George P. Shutt HOUSES—Architect and Builder 195 ADVERTISI.NG MANAGER Richard N. Jones Low-cost Ways t« Improve the Low-cost House The Editors' Suggestions Architeilural Forum, THE MAGAZINE OF BUILDING i. published monthly by TIME Inc., Time & Life Building, •) Rockefeller Plaza. New York 20. N. Y. Yearly aub- The Architects' Suggestions Hcriptinn imyable in advance. To individuals or firmn 197 (and their employes) engaged in Building—deaiun. construction. Gnance. realty; material distribution, pro• duction or manufacture; government agencies and super• Better Floor Plans 198 visory employes; commercial and industrial organization^- with a building program and their executives; teachers and students iif architecture and engineering; libraries, pro Better Kitchens fessional clubs, societies and trade associations connected 202 with the building industry; advertisers and publishers; USA. Possessions and Canada. t^.SO; Pan American Union and the Philippines, $9.00; elsewhere (12.00. Builders' Plans for 1952—A Round-up 206 those not connected with the Building Industry; USA, Possessions and Canada, $9.00; elsewhere, 517.50. Single copies, if available, S2. All copies mailed flat. Copy• Thomas Coogan's $6,850 Houses in Miami, Fla. 209 right under International Copyright Convention. All rights Alfred B. Parker, Architect reserved under the Pan American Copyright Convention. Keentered as second class matter May 24, 1951 at the Post Office at New York. N. Y.. under the act of March 3. Joseph Eichler's $13,000 Houses in Palo Alto, Calif. 212 1879. Copyright 1951 by TIME Ine. Anshen &. Allen. Architects Zuckerman & Morris' $15,000 Houses in Burbank. Calif. TiMi INC. alno publishes TIME, LITE and FORTUWK. Chair• 214 Allen G. Siple. Architect man. Maurice T. Moore; President. Roy E. Lanten: Execu• tive Vice President and Treaaurer. Cbarlea L. Stiilman; Executive Vice President for Publishing. Howard Black; Levitt & Sons' $9,990 Houses for Levittown, Pa. 217 Vice Presidonta. Allen Grover, Andrew Heialtell. C. D! Alfred Levitt. Designer Jackson. J. A. Linen, P. 1. Prentice; Vice President and bocrotary. D. W. Brumbaugh; Comptroller and Assis- Jere Strizek's $9,950 Houses in Sacramento, Calif. tant Secretary, A. W. Carlson; Producer, THE MABCH OF 220 John W. Davis. Designer TiMK, Ui. hard de Rochemont. HOUSES—Architect and Prefabricator 224 VOLUME 95. NUMBER 4 TODAY S TYPICAL HOUSE—An HHFA survey 274 PRODUCT NEWS—Materials and equipment for the house 288 TECHNICAL LITERATURE 302 Cover: Fariuteorlh Hiiute; Photographer: Hedrich-BUising BEHIND THE BLUEPRINTS LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROME, 68. \%<>rl<i-fani. (•erman-born architect, designed his first hf in Berlin in 1907, his best known house, Tnghendhat. in 1930, and a successor to the lal the Farnsworth House (p. 156), last year, nowned for his brilliant handling of space materials, and for the absolute, almost asc purity of his design. Van der Robe has achi« his international reputatinn without formal at tectural training. He is, nevertheless, a gi teacher, is former Director of the Bauhaus current head of Illinois Tech's Departmen Architecture. I'..rty-~ix year old MILTON RYAN is an archi button started sans architectural degrees. Born in Rockc Texas, he earned a degree in Business Adn stratiftn at Texas University and promptly a bookkeeping job with a San Antonio lur coinfiuny. From the ledgers to the drafting t was a short jump and in a few years Ryan w a revolution rr-i~|(T<-(l arcliilrcl. Thai -aiiu- \rar. IV.MS opened his present office in San .-Vntonio, devo it largely to the design of simple, fum ii houses well suited to his native southwest, such slnic'liin- is piiblisluMl this numlh (p. 1 HARWELL HAMILTON HARRIS, newly-appoi architectural dean of Texas University, is a designer who couples originably with war turns out houses in the best tradition of Amer woodcraft. Son of an architect, Harris was 1 in California in 1903 and educated at Pon College and the Otis Art Institute. Though n a registered architect in his native state. Hi won countless awards for superlative design 1 his Los Angeles office. In the best Harris ; are the group of houses (p. 166), published month. Corncll-l rained architects GEC NEMENY (40) and A. W. GELLER | were partners in a diversified York practice from 1947 to 1 In addition to 50 handsome cou houses like the group featured month (p. 175), they designe community of 300 modern homes for a specul, builder, an FHA 608 rental project, plus a quota of nonresidential structures. Eai Geller bad worked for William Lescaze Marcel Breuer, Nemeny for Emery Roth Allx-rt Mayer. Harvard alumni WILLIAM NOR BREGER (31| and STANLEY R. S MAN (28) were scholarship stud at the Graduate School of Des have won three coveted prizes s forming their New York partner in 1946. Prior to the present allia Breger worked for Walter Gropius and Salzi for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Though dominantly residential designers with a spe flair for adroitly-planned suburban homes SCHLAOE 190). they have also done recreational des beach clubs, swimming pools and night cl SCHLAGE LOCK COMPANY and more recently, school planning. Both Bayshore Blvd. Empire Stale BIdg. rently teach architectural design at New Yc San Francisco New York Pratt Institute. 1. p. IS6 HOUSES- -Architect & Client The seven architects who have designed these 11 houses for individual clients 2. p. >M have shown great inventiveness in working out ideas that builders, owners and other architects will borrow. Moreover, these architects have clearly manifested in their work the wide divergencies of basic attitude with which a mature modern architecture can meet an industrial civilization. Here are some of the innovations: 3.p. IM The house on stilts variously provides breezy upstairs living, or a usable open basement or clear air-born architectural form (House Nos. 1, 8 & 10). The central service core frees the valuable periphery of the house, concen• trates mechanical equipment (1, 7 & 11). The associated idea of the rede• IIIIII 4.P- signed roof lets daylight into these central areas, while it enriches the design with picturesque roof structures (3) or pleasant geometric patterns (7). The middle buffer zone gives expanded scope alternately to children or parents, to indoor or outdoor activities (7 & 11). And the architects have created a whole new range of kitchens (see es• 5.P. 172 pecially 1 & 4). The use of that rare and historical material, steel, in some cases is only auxiliary: to help out in a wood house with problems of spanning or align• ment (9); in other cases it is radical: to create an entirely new vocabulary 6.p. 174 of house architecture (1 & 8) beautifully classical or elegantly functional. More important is the diversity in the architects^ basic orientation. Mies van der Robe's house (1) is modern and classical; he has embraced industry, translated the steel skeleton frame into a house '^language," pro• vided impersonal but beautiful space to be personally arranged by those 7. P. 177 willing to live in the modern equivalent of the Doric order. Harwell Harris (2, 3 & 4) is modern and romantic, serving above all the individual client in an individual landscape, climate, and tradition; he softens industry with a wood carpentry which is none-the-less strongly modular in 8. p. 180 rhythm, fitted to the power saw and stock sizes. Robert Kennedy (9) is modern and colloquial: his polite house carries its high breeding without ostentation and, like a well cut suit, has a wide appeal and makes a high degree of sophistication in design appear casual. 9. p. 184 Milton Ryan (8) is modern and functional: compared to Mies his use of steel is that of a sensitive engineer rather than a modernized mason, and accordingly fresh, airy and delightful.
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