RECORD HOUSES OF 1958
Architectural Record Mid-May 1958

The Staff of Architectural Record: RECORD HOUSES OF 1958. NYC: F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1958. First edition (Architectural Record Mid-May 1958). A very good perfect-bound magazine in lightly-worn wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

8.625 x 11.5 perfect-bound magazine with 226 pages devoted to "20 of the Year's Finest Architect-Designed Houses Shown in 308 Photographs, Plans and Drawings, Plus Products for the House." Generously illustrated in b&w (some color) photographs, floor plans, elevations and drawings of construction details; index of designers & firms in the issue accompanied by small portrait photos of each contributor and their address. Advertisements of the day throughout - primarily for home building materials and supplies.

In 1956, Architectural Record began an annual tradition of a special "Mid-May" issue: RECORD HOUSES -- a practice still in place today. Each issue was devoted to showcasing twenty "exceptionally fine houses", newly built that year. This publication is the third of these special issues.

The Twenty Houses of 1958, their designers, the clients and the locations:

  • A Controlled Environment. PHILIP HISS, Designer/Owner, Sarasota, Florida
  • The Formal House in the Country. JOHN E. PEKRUHN, Architect. Mr. & Mrs. George Foster, Owners, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Bold Interplay of Forms. VICTOR LUNDY, Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Herron, Jr., Venice, Florida
  • A House Around an Atrium. GEORGE T. ROCKRISE, Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter, Owners, Medford, Oregon
  • A Pavilion For Living. ULRICH FRANZEN, Architect. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Beattie, Owners, Rye, New York
  • A House of Linked Pavilions. AECK ASSOCIATES, Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Howard Callaway, Callaway Gardens, Georgia
  • Adobe Shields a Congenial House. KNORR-ELLIOTT ASSOCIATES, Designers. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hilmer, Owners, Atherton, California
  • A Windowless Courtyard House. LAWRENCE, SAUNDERS AND CALONGNE, Architects. Dr. & Mrs. Ben Freedman, Owners, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Slated: The Curtain Wall. KECK AND KECK, Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Walter D. Gray, Owners, Olympia Fields, Illinois
  • In The Tropical Tradition. ROBERT B. BROWNE, Architect. Mr. & Mrs.Kenneth McClave, Owners, Key Biscayne, Florida
  • In The Northwest Tradition. PAUL A. THIRY, Architect. Mrs. Allison T. Wanamaker, Owner, Seattle, Washington
  • Compact Delight. CHARD F. WEBB, Architect/Owner, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
  • Accent On Vertical Space. GEORGE NELSON AND DON CHADWICK, Architects. Mr. & Mrs. James T. Kirkpatrick, Owners, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • A Small Lot Well Used. KILLINGSWORTH-BRADY-SMITH, Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Opdahl, Owners, Long Beach, California
  • Economy in Court House Design. NEUHAUS AND TAYLOR, Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Harwood Taylor, Owners, Houston, Texas
  • Order On An Irregular Site. WILLIAM FLETCHER, Architect/Owner, Portland, Oregon
  • Disciplined Romanticism. JOHN MACL. JOHANSEN, Architect, Connecticut
  • A Four-In-One. Scheme. RICHARD E. BARINGER, Architect. Dr. & Mrs. Stanford R. Gamm, Owners, Highland Park, Illinois
  • Variations On Space. BURK, LEBRETON AND LAMANTIA, Architects. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Hale, Owners, Lake Charles, Louisiana
  • A High-Flying House. MARCEL BREUER, Architect. Mr.& Mrs. Robert J. Starkey, Owners, Duluth, Minnesota

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