The Architectural Review
A Magazine of Architecture and Decoration
February 1937
J. M. Richards [Editor]
London: The Architectural Press, Vol. LXXXI, No. 483, February 1937. Original edition. Folio. Perfect bound and stitched printed wrappers. 48 [lxxix] pp. Illustrated articles and period trade advertisements. Wrappers edgeworn with spine chipping and soiling to both panels. A couple of early advertisements clipped, otherwise textblock clean and bright. A good example of a rare suvivor.
11 x 14-inch magazine with 128 pages of illustrated articles and period trade advertisements. The Architectural Review’s generous size refused to simply be tucked under your arm and read while commuting, instead it demands to be read while perhaps relaxing in a Model B3 chair away from your desk. The bold text commands your attention—but there isn’t too much of it—while the cover illustrations were relevant to the content inside—and thus gave a teasing glimpse into the world of Modernist Architecture. Visually the Review positioned itself as a periodical that made statements so you wanted to keep on your fitted bookcase (or perhaps in your Penguin Book Donkey) so that you can refer back to this bible of good taste in the future.
CONTENTS:
PROPHETS OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT. by Nicolette Gray
TWO AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALS: Mercy Hospital, Melbourne, and Gloucester House, Sydney.
Stephenson and Meldrum, Architects
FLATS AT DOLDERTAL, ZURICH. Alfred and Emil Roth and Marcel Breuer. (London) Architects. The Doldertal Apartment Houses in Zurich are iconic modernist buildings designed by Marcel Breuer alongside cousins Alfred Roth and Emil Roth between 1935 and 1936, and commissioned by art historian and CIAM figure Sigfried Giedion. Built as a manifesto for the "New Building" (Neues Bauen) movement in Switzerland, the flats featuring open floor plans, large balconies, and abundant natural light.
BUNGALOWS AT WHIPSNADE. Lubetkin and Tecton, Architects. The Tecton bungalows at Whipsnade are two pioneering modernist twin residential buildings constructed between 1933 and 1936 adjacent to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE AS STRUCTURE AND PRECEDENT. by P. Morton Shand
CURRENT ARCHITECTURE:
1. The new hospital at Scarborough. Wallace Marchment, Architect.
2. Athenaeum Court, Piccadilly. Adie, Button and Partners, Architects.
3. New Showroom in Bond Street, London. Oliver Hill, Architect.
ANTHOLOGY
4. New Council Offices, Welwyn Garden City. Elsom and Stone, Architects
5. New Showrooms in South Audley Street, London. Stanley Hall and Easton and Robertson, Architects
“BRITISH ARCHITECTURE:” Exhibition at the R.A. By J. M. R.
BOOKS
BOOK OF THE MONTH: Machine- age Primitives. by James MacQuedy
Handbook on Heating. by J. K. Winser
PANORAMIC WALLPAPERS
DECORATION—THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW SUPPLEMENT
THE TRUE PHOTO-MURAL: A NEW TECHNIQUE OF DECORATION
BULLETIN OF STANDARD DESIGNS
COLOUR AND METHOD by Amedee Ozenfant
MARGINALIA
TRADE AND CRAFT
Trade News and Reviews. By Brian Grant.
The Architectural Review was founded as a monthly magazine, the Architectural Review for the Artist and Craftsman, in 1896 by Percy Hastings, owner of the Architectural Press. In 1927 his third son, Hubert de Cronin Hastings, became joint editor (with Christian Berman) of both the Architectural Review and the Architects' Journal, a weekly. Together they made substantial changes to the aims and style of the review, which became a general arts magazine with an architectural emphasis. Contributors from other artistic fields were brought in, among them Hilaire Belloc, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Nash, Nikolaus Pevsner, P. Morton Shand, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh. John Betjeman was an assistant editor from 1930 to 1934. The editorial board included Pevsner, Hugh Casson, Osbert Lancaster and James Maude Richards. The design of the review was innovative, with bold use of layout, typefaces and photographs; graphic elements were commissioned from Eric Gill and Edward Bawden. The articles on European Modernist architecture by P. Morton Shand published from July 1934 were among the earliest in Britain on the subject. By about 1935 the magazine had acquired a leading position in the discourse surrounding Modernism. The journal was influential after the Second World War in raising awareness of "townscape" (urban design), partly through regular articles by assistant editor Gordon Cullen, author of several books on the subject.
The Architectural Review
A Magazine of Architecture and Decoration
February 1937
J. M. Richards [Editor]
London: The Architectural Press, Vol. LXXXI, No. 483, February 1937. Original edition. Folio. Perfect bound and stitched printed wrappers. 48 [lxxix] pp. Illustrated articles and period trade advertisements. Wrappers edgeworn with spine chipping and soiling to both panels. A couple of early advertisements clipped, otherwise textblock clean and bright. A good example of a rare suvivor.
11 x 14-inch magazine with 128 pages of illustrated articles and period trade advertisements. The Architectural Review’s generous size refused to simply be tucked under your arm and read while commuting, instead it demands to be read while perhaps relaxing in a Model B3 chair away from your desk. The bold text commands your attention—but there isn’t too much of it—while the cover illustrations were relevant to the content inside—and thus gave a teasing glimpse into the world of Modernist Architecture. Visually the Review positioned itself as a periodical that made statements so you wanted to keep on your fitted bookcase (or perhaps in your Penguin Book Donkey) so that you can refer back to this bible of good taste in the future.
CONTENTS:
PROPHETS OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT. by Nicolette Gray
TWO AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALS: Mercy Hospital, Melbourne, and Gloucester House, Sydney.
Stephenson and Meldrum, Architects
FLATS AT DOLDERTAL, ZURICH. Alfred and Emil Roth and Marcel Breuer. (London) Architects. The Doldertal Apartment Houses in Zurich are iconic modernist buildings designed by Marcel Breuer alongside cousins Alfred Roth and Emil Roth between 1935 and 1936, and commissioned by art historian and CIAM figure Sigfried Giedion. Built as a manifesto for the "New Building" (Neues Bauen) movement in Switzerland, the flats featuring open floor plans, large balconies, and abundant natural light.
BUNGALOWS AT WHIPSNADE. Lubetkin and Tecton, Architects. The Tecton bungalows at Whipsnade are two pioneering modernist twin residential buildings constructed between 1933 and 1936 adjacent to Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE AS STRUCTURE AND PRECEDENT. by P. Morton Shand
CURRENT ARCHITECTURE:
1. The new hospital at Scarborough. Wallace Marchment, Architect.
2. Athenaeum Court, Piccadilly. Adie, Button and Partners, Architects.
3. New Showroom in Bond Street, London. Oliver Hill, Architect.
ANTHOLOGY
4. New Council Offices, Welwyn Garden City. Elsom and Stone, Architects
5. New Showrooms in South Audley Street, London. Stanley Hall and Easton and Robertson, Architects
“BRITISH ARCHITECTURE:” Exhibition at the R.A. By J. M. R.
BOOKS
BOOK OF THE MONTH: Machine- age Primitives. by James MacQuedy
Handbook on Heating. by J. K. Winser
PANORAMIC WALLPAPERS
DECORATION—THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW SUPPLEMENT
THE TRUE PHOTO-MURAL: A NEW TECHNIQUE OF DECORATION
BULLETIN OF STANDARD DESIGNS
COLOUR AND METHOD by Amedee Ozenfant
MARGINALIA
TRADE AND CRAFT
Trade News and Reviews. By Brian Grant.
The Architectural Review was founded as a monthly magazine, the Architectural Review for the Artist and Craftsman, in 1896 by Percy Hastings, owner of the Architectural Press. In 1927 his third son, Hubert de Cronin Hastings, became joint editor (with Christian Berman) of both the Architectural Review and the Architects' Journal, a weekly. Together they made substantial changes to the aims and style of the review, which became a general arts magazine with an architectural emphasis. Contributors from other artistic fields were brought in, among them Hilaire Belloc, Robert Byron, Cyril Connolly, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Nash, Nikolaus Pevsner, P. Morton Shand, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh. John Betjeman was an assistant editor from 1930 to 1934. The editorial board included Pevsner, Hugh Casson, Osbert Lancaster and James Maude Richards. The design of the review was innovative, with bold use of layout, typefaces and photographs; graphic elements were commissioned from Eric Gill and Edward Bawden. The articles on European Modernist architecture by P. Morton Shand published from July 1934 were among the earliest in Britain on the subject. By about 1935 the magazine had acquired a leading position in the discourse surrounding Modernism. The journal was influential after the Second World War in raising awareness of "townscape" (urban design), partly through regular articles by assistant editor Gordon Cullen, author of several books on the subject.
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