PERSPECTA 1 - 7
THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL

Norman Carver, Charles Brickbauer, Marshall Meyers,
Edwin Close II, James Baker, Warren Cox, et al [editors]

7 [9.5 x 11.75] journals from 1952-1961 ranging from 56-102 pages per issues. Heavily illustrated with original artwork, photography, plans and diagrams with a few trade advertisements. Limited circulation and uncertain financial backing have combined to make the early issues of Perspecta notoriously difficult to locate. An excellent opportunity to acquire a significant piece of American architectural history.

Founded in 1952, Perspecta is the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the United States and the first that devoted its pages to the artistic, historical and theoretical aspects of architecture. From its earliest issues, essays published in Perspecta changed the way people thought about architecture. Highly recommended for both form and content.

"The publication of Perspecta marked the beginning of a new kind of critical discourse about architecture," said Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. "Although Perspecta was never a mass-market publication, its impact on the field has belied its numbers. The journal was -- and continues to be -- an intellectual showpiece for the Yale School of Architecture and an important presence in the design community."

PERSPECTA 1 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL [Summer 1952; 56 pages]

• Training for the Practice of Architecture by George Howe
• The Evolution of Wright, Mies and Le Corbusier by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Church for the First Unitarian Church of Madison, Wisconsin (2 pages with 3 b/w photographs)
• New Directions of
• Paul Rudolph: 7 pages with 9 b/w illustrations of the Eugene Knotts Residence and the Kate Wheelan Cottages
• Philip Johnson: 3 pages with 6 b/w illustrations of the House on the Hudson
• Buckminster Fuller: 9 pages with 7 b/w illustrations of The Standard of Living Package
• Michelangelo's Fortification Drawings: A Study in the Reflex Diagonal
• The Architecture of American Commerce
• Monumental Architecture by Henry Reed, Jr.

PERSPECTA 2 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL
[n. d.; 68 pages]

• Some Experiments and Observations of an Elderly Architect by George Howe
• Rome Ruined? By Carroll L. V. Meeks
• Toward a Plan for Midtown Philadephia by Louis I. Kahn: 18 pages with 27 illustrations, 4 in color
• The Cardboard House by Buckminster Fuller: 8 pages with 6 b/w illustrations
• Rhythmic Integration of Panel Elements by Harwell Hamilton Harris
• On the Responsibility of the Architect: A Discussion including Philip Johnson, Pietro Belluschi, Louis Kahn, Paul Weiss and Vincent Scully
• Antonio Gaudi: A Photographic Essay on his Casa Mila with photos by Herbert Brooks Walker and text by Rober J. Schoelkopf

PERSPECTA 3 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL [1955; 80 pages]

• Architecture and Craftsmanship 3 articles establishing a historic frame of reference:
• Environment and Anonymous Architecture by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
• Architecture in Japan by Walter Gropius
• The Conscious Stone by Christopher Tunnard
• 4 articles dealing with recent works of the following men:
• George Nakashima: Actuality (8 pages with 8 illustrations of his house in New Hope, PN)
• Henry Pfisterer: An Engineering Problem
• Philip C. Johnson: The Seven Crutches of Modern Architecture (Remarks from an informal talk to students of Architectural Design at Harvard, December 1954; includes 3 photos by Ezra Stoller of The Wiley House including a half-page color insert)
• Louis I. Kahn: Order and Form (22 pages with 22 illustrations, 1 in color and 1 on onion skin paper of the Yale Art Gallery and Design Center, the de Vore House and the Adler House)
• A concluding pictorial essay to show the part that craftsmanship, in its fullest sense has played in significant works of contemporary architecture

PERSPECTA 4 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL [1957; 68 pages]

• Toward a Redefinition of Style by Vincent Scully, Jr.
• Regionalism in Architecture by Paul Rudolph
• Design and Technology in Hagia Sophia by William MacDonald
• Realism Reconsidered by Ben Shahn: includes a 5 panel fold-out of a sketch for a 48' X 8' mosaic mural to be installed in the New Brady High School, Brooklyn, NY
• The Pliable Plane; Textiles in Architecture by Anni Albers
• Eric Mendelsohn: From His Writing and Sketches (8 pages with 7 b/w illustrations)
• Richard Neutra: Notes to the Young Architect (8 pages with 8 b/w illustrations)
• Louis Kahn: Order in Architecture (8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations)
• Henri Matisse: A Letter

PERSPECTA 5 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL [1959; 80 pages]

• Architectural Coxcombery or the Desire for Ornament by Edgar Kaufman, Jr.
• The Engineer and the Artist by Mario G. Salvadori
• The Design Process by Edward Larabee Barnes
• A Letter by Mathew Nowicki
• Notes on Architecture Today: King Lui Wu (7 pages with 10 b/w illustrations and a fold-out of the Dorothea Rudnick House, New Haven, CT)
• Indian Vernacular Architecture: Wai and Cochin by William Wurster and Catherine Bauer
• The Client and the Architect: A Series of Humorous Illustrations by Robert Osborn
• Design for Tomorrow by Paul Nelson
• An Experimental Theatre by George Izenour
• Louis Sullivan's Architectural Ornament: A Brief Note Concerning Humanist Design in the Age of Force by Vincent Scully, Jr.

PERSPECTA 6 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL [1960; 98 pages]

• Food for Changing Sensibility by Henry-Russell Hitchcock
• A Failure of Architectural Purism by Francois Bucher
• Hadrian's Villa by Charles Moore
• The Work of Charles Edouard Jeanneret: The Little Known Early Work of Le Corbusier (6 pages with 9 b/w illustrations)
• Some Aspects of Japanese Architecture by Walter Dodd Ramberg
• Machu Picchu by George Kubler
• Nineteenth Century Design by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
• The Observatories of the Maharajah Sawai Jai Singh II: Photographs by Isamu Noguchi: 10 pages with 12 photographs
• Mykonos and Patmos by Paul Mitarichi and Robert Ernest
• The "Functional Tradition" and Expression by James Stirling

PERSPECTA 7 - THE YALE ARCHITECTURE JOURNAL [1961; 102 pages]

• Philip Johnson: 6 pages with 13 b/w illustrations of the Sheldon Art Gallery, a Benedictine Priory, a Pavilion for his New Canaan property and the Union Air Terminal Building at Idlewild
• Louis Kahn: 20 pages with 14 b/w text illustrations and 15 b/w illustrations of the Goldberg House (Rydal, PN), the American Consulate (Luanda, Portugese Angola) and a Unitarian Church (Rochester, NY)
• Eero Saarinen: 14 pages with 21 b/w illustrations of the World Health Organization Headquarters (Geneva, Switzerland), the Samuel F. B. Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Yale University and the John Deere and Company Administration Center (Moline, IL)
• John Johansen: Act and Behavior in Architecture
• Paul Rudolph: 14 pages with 26 b/w illustrations of Yale University Married Student Housing, Yale University Art and Architectural School Building and Milam House (St. John's County, Florida)
• The Future of the Past by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (includes work by Peter Behrens, Eero Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn
• Notes on American Architecture by James Gowan (includes work by Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Twitchell and Rudolph, R. M. Schindler, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn)
• The Exploded Landscape by Walter McQuade (includes work by Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, John Johansen and Louis Kahn)
• Form-givers: Peter Collins
• Open and Closed: Colin St. John Wilson (includes work by Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, Hugo Haering, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn

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