Title: Progressive Architecture – Houses & Schools
Vol. XL No. 11, November 1959
Publication Information: Published monthly by Reinhold Publishing Corp.
Additional Information: 254 pages. Illustrated. Ads. Original covers are on issue.
Summary: Contents Include:
Cover: Site Plan by Ladislav L. Rado
Practice Of Architecture
It’s the Law by Bernard Tomson and Norman Coplan
What’s Wrong With the Schools? by Frederick L. Langhorst
Specificafions Clinic by Harold J. Rosen
Mechanical Engineering Critique by William J. McGuinness
Views: “New Sensualists” Respond
P/A News Report
Architect’s Business Expected to Rise 20% in 1960
Guggenheim Museum Holds Long-Awaited Opening
Expanding Plastic Airrhoid Boosts Wood River Dome
Curtain-Wall Research Develops Improved Program and Services
Reynolds Building Has “Disappearing” Screen
Montreal Center Planned by Pel
Architectural Bulletins
Exciting Embassy by Saarinen Opens Under Fire
Washington Column by Frederick Gutheim
New Products
Manufacturers Data
Houses
The Architect’s Family as Client
Ladislav L. Rado, Chappaqua, Armonk, New York
Anthony Ellner, Jr., Long Island, New York
Cecil A. Alexander, Atlanta, Georgia
Eric C. Sorensen, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Schools
Automation in Schools by Frank G. Lopez
Two Elementary Schools
Warson Woods School: Warson Woods, Missouri. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Architecfs
Island Park School: Mercer Island, Washington. Bassetti & Morse, Architects
Materials and Methods
Has School Air Conditioning Arrived? by Henry Wright
Acousfo-Electronic Auditorium by Harry F. Olson
Selected Details
Skylight, Alexander House
Skylight, Island Park School
Interior Design Data
Remodeled Kitchen/Dining Area by Barbara J. Melnick. Seattle, Washington. Keith R. Kolb, Architect
Reviews: Plastic Design in Steel
Jobs and Men
Advertiser’s Directory
P.S.: Why Not More Good Average Work?
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