2010 Gordon Drake: An Annotated & Illustrated Bibliography Compiled and annotated by John Crosse Gordon Drake: An Annotated & Illustrated Bibliography (Uncorrected Proof – Not for Sale) Gordon Drake, circa 1950, Courtesy .Betsy Roeth Compiled, Annotated & Illustrated by John Crosse ©2010 modern-ISM Press 6333 Esplanade Playa del Rey, CA 90293
[email protected] 310-301-6339 Gordon Drake obituary, House & Home, March, 1952, p. 95. (From my collection). Introduction My introduction to Gordon Drake came through working on a book with Julius Shulman in which I plan to collect all of the covers his photos have appeared on. I have found over 800 to date. I spent many days in Shulman’s studio in his Raphael Soriano-designed home interviewing him and researching in his extensive studio archives of magazine tear sheets and compiled an annotated bibliography of 8,000 items resulting from his 7,000 assignments. Through this process it became clear that Shulman was a very close friend with Drake. Consequently, he spent much more time on his work for Drake and made full use of his editorial contacts to get Drake’s work published which helped garner numerous awards for the young architect beginning with his first project, his personal residence in Los Angeles seen on the cover of this bibliography. Shulman went on to complete seven assignments for Drake and collaborated on close to a hundred articles with him published all over the world. The partnership is a case study in the generation of publicity and use of marketing which benefited both men’s careers. The following is excerpted from my related blog post “The Post-War Publicity Partnership of Julius Shulman and Gordon Drake.” Gordon Drake burst onto the Los Angeles architectural scene in 1946 by winning Progressive Architecture's First Annual Award competition with his personal residence in Beverly Glen, his very first house.