WHAT IS MODERN ARCHITECTURE?
WHAT IS MODERN DESIGN?
WHAT IS MODERN INTERIOR DESIGN?
Elizabeth Mock, John McAndrew, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.: WHAT IS MODERN DESIGN? NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1950. First edition (Introductory Series to the Modern Arts 3). A very good softcover book in stiff, printed wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 7.5 x 10 book with 32 pages, and 70 photographs of modern design objects from the ever-growing collection of the Museum of Modern Art, circa 1950. This booklet was a precursor to the Good Design exhibits of the 1950s. Includes sections on furniture, glasswear, fabrics, kitchen utensils and decorative glass.

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.: WHAT IS MODERN INTERIOR DESIGN? NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. First edition (Introductory Series to the Modern Arts 4). A very good softcover book in stiff, printed wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 7.5 x 10 book with 32 pages, and 57 photographs of modern interior design selected by the mandarins of MoMA, circa 1953.

With the Introductory Series to the Modern Arts, Alfred Barr and his associates at the Museum of Modern Art set out to impress their own vision of the avant-garde on the rest of America. Terence Riley noted that the early tastemakers at MoMA understood their job was to separate "the wheat from the chaff." Few people rose to that challenge with more vigor than Philip Johnson, the young head of the Department of Architecture and Design. Barr's insistence on including Architecture and Design as a fully functioning department within MoMA was a radical curatorial departure, which seems only obvious today.

Designers represented in WHAT IS MODERN DESIGN? include: Alvar Aalto, Finn Juhl, Bruno Mathson, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Mies van der Rohe, JJP Oud, Eero Saarinen, George Nelson, Anni Albers, Marianne Straub, Marianne Strengel, Dorothy Liebes, Stanislaus V'Soske, Antonin Raymond, June Groff, Florence Forst, Bernard Leach, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, Elis Bergh, Vera liskova, Billy Baldwin and William Machado, Eva Zeisel, Jon Hedu, Otto Natzler, Josef Hoffmann, Isamu Noguchi, Peter Pfisterer, Josef Frank, Kurt Versen, Poul Henningsen, Gino Sarfatti, A. D. Copier, Gunnel Nyman, Edvin Ohrstrom, Josef Frank, Paavo Tynell, and others.

Designers represented in WHAT IS MODERN INTERIOR DESIGN? include: Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Durrell Stone, George Nelson, Marcel Breuer, Finn Juhl, Florence Knoll, H. H. Richardson, Alexander Girard, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Mart Stam, Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Charles Eames, Russel Wright, William Lescaze, George Howe, Walter Bognar, Richard neutra, Harwell Hamilton Harris, etc.

WHAT IS MODERN ARCHITECTURE? List of Illustrations:

• Frontispiece - REINHARD & HOFMEISTER, CORBETT, HARRISON & MacMURRAY, HOOD & FOUlLHOUX: Rockefeller Center, New York, 1931-1940.
• ELIEL and EERO SAARINEN; PERKINS, WHEELER and WILL. Crow Island School. Winnetka, III., 1940. Extenor; Isometric view of classroom unit; Classroom boys; Classroom.
• LE CORBUSIER and JEANNERET: Swiss Dormitory. Paris, 1930-32. Plan; North facade; South facade, Drawing; Terrace.
• WALTER GROPlUS: Bauhaus. Dessau. Germany. 1925-26. Airview; Exterior; Workshop and technical school; Bauhaus, Dessau Drawing; Exterior.
• GROPIUS and BREUER: Breuer House, Lincoln, Mass., 1939.
• RICHARD J. NEUTRA, V.L.D. Research House, Los Angeles, Calif. 1932. Bell Experimental School, Los Angeles, Calif., 1935. Plan; Outdoor classroom.
• HOWE and LESCAZE: Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building, Philadelphia, Pa., 1932.
• ERIC MENDELSOHN: Schocken Department Store, Chemnitz, Germany, 1928.
• LUBETKIN and TECTON: Highpoint Flats, London, 1935; Penguin Pool, London Zoo, 1933.
• FRANCIS JOSEPH McCARTHY: McPherson House. Berkeley, Calif., 1939. Bedroom.
• BEAUDOUIN and LODS, Open.or school, Suresnes, France, 1935-36 Airview.
• EDWARD D. STONE, Goodyear House, Old Westbury, Long Island, 1939.
• HARWELL HAMILTON HARRIS, Hawk House. Los Angeles, Calif., 1939.
• WILLIAM MUSCHENHEIM, De Liagre vacation house, Woodstock, N. Y., 1937.
• FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY, Experimental Plywood House. Madison, Wis.
• PHILIP L. GOODWIN and EDWARD D. STONE: Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1939. Members' Rooms; Library; Auditorium.
• IGNAZIO GARDELLA and LUIGI MARTINI: Tuberculosis clinic, Alessandrio. Italy, obout 1938. Sun terrace.
• L. MIES VAN DER ROHE, Model House, Berlin Building Exposition, 1931. Plan. Model House. Views of living space. German Building, Barcelona World's Fair. 1929. Interior.
• OSCAR STONOROV: Charleston Playhouse, near Phoenixville, Pa., 1939.
• SERGE CHERMAYEFF: Own House, Sussex, England, 1937.
• ALVAR and AINO AALTO: Newspaper Plant, Turku, Finland, 1929. Pressroom; Finnish Building, World's Fair, Paris. 1937, Interior court. Entrance; Diagram of reinforced wood columns; Loggia; Central Court.
• FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: Johnson Wax Factory, Racine, Wis., 1937. Administration Building, truck entrance. Kaufmann House, Bear Run, Pa., 1937. View from the stream; General view; Guest House, 1939; House Plan.
• LUCIO COSTA and OSCAR NIEMEYER SOARES, with PAUL LESTER WEINER: Brazilian Building, New York World's Fair, 1939. Restaurant.
• JOHN YEON and A. E. DOYLE and associates, Watzek House, Portland. Ore., 1938.
• CARL S. KOCH, JR.: Own House. Belmont. Mass. 1940. Living Room; Exterior. House Plan; Entrance from living room; Office.
• JOHN FUNK: Heckendorf House, Modesto, Calif., 1939. View from garden; Living room. House Plan; View from street.
• BRINKMAN and VAN DER VLUGT: Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam. Holland, 1927-28. In construction; Rear facade; View from Street.
• RAYMOND M. HOOD and JOHN MEAD HOWELLS: Daily News Building, New York, 1930.
• FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: Burton D. Cairns and Vernon Demars, architects: Farm Workers' Community. Yuba City, CoIif.. 1940; House-rows, south side.
• TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY: Roland A. Wank, Principal Architect; Theodore C. Parker. Chief Engineer. Dam and Powerhouse. Hiwassee. Tenn., 1940.

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