Architectural Design. A collection of 22 issues published between March 1970 + June 1977

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London, The Standard catalogue Co., 1970-1977

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Architectural Design. Volume XL

London: The Standard catalogue Co, 1970. Numbers 3, 5 + 6.

3. March issue. Jasia Reichardt – Lilian Lijn. Cosmorama – Holiday Home 1,2,3 – Paper House 1,2 + 3 – Trick recyclist by Rupert Spade - Kafkas Castle by Peter Hodgkinson - a 2 page contribution by ANT FARM - Changes in Form by Christopher Alexander…..; Hans Hollein’s Feigen gallery by Kenneth Frampton; Kuwait sports center competition winners; Valencia fair by Atelier Jullian; Renzo Piano by martin Pawley; Zip-up enclosures by R and S rogers; Maximum-space house by John Hix; Sector, Books, Buildings, Developments. Cover: A sand fantasy by Adrian George inspired by the Kuwait sports center by Kenzo Tange and Frei Otto.

5. May issue. Jasia Reichardt – She. Cosmorama – ‘Exploration’ by Farooq Hussain, a short text by Peter Cook on the Monte Carlo competition – Ant Farm strikes again – Shelter suits – ideal Home dome Foster Associates. Olsen Passenger Terminal and Olsen Operations and Amenity Centre, Millwall Docks, London, Computer Technology Research and Development Centre, Hemel Hampstead, Herts, Sector; Books, Buildings, Design. Cover: fantasy by Adrian George inspired by the Olsen Amenity Center.

6. June issue. Jasia Reichardt – Kitaj’s pictures from an exhibition. Cosmorama – an illustrated ABC on the Osaka ’70 expo…. Architecture v. The Movies. An interpretation of Expo ’70. Osaka, by Martin Pawley; The pavilions how they got that way; The movies: how they got that way; The image as a structural system; Dancing android or tomorrow’s slave; Nine Japanese pavilions; The most magnificent; The most advanced; The most surprising; The most ambitious; The most grandiloquent; ; The most integrated; The most cumbersome; The most delightful; The most disappointing; Tokyo in 24 hours buy J. Street-Porter; Books, Sector, Buildings. Cover drawing by Adrain George inspired by Expos ’70 images.

 

Architectural Design. Volume XLII.

London: The Standard catalogue Co, 1971. Numbers 1- 6.

1. January issue. Cosmorama – Lach mit Kamerad! But the joke is on you by Martin Pawley – Exhibitions Don Judd, Leger and Purist Paris, Bernhard & Hilla Becher; Boston Government Center. Its evolution described by Charles Hilgenhurst. Appraisal by Henry Millon; Le Corbusier a la mode by Peter Papademetriou; Cedric Price supplement No. 2. ; Map Guide: Hector Guimard in Paris. Selection by Francine Haber; Secor. Living in urban space time. Hyde park for London Airport. A sleight of analysis; Books; Buildings; Things; Hardware by Alexander Pike; Odds and… Sunderland Civic Centre. Letters. Calendar. Cover: Adrian George takes a look out of AD editorial office window during the festive season.

2. February issue. Cosmorama. Exhibitions – Living in your allotment and the neurological lifestyle by David Greene – Inner Space by Farooq Hussain – Exhibitions: Multiples - Three tube buildings. Eventstructure Research Group. Foster associates. Arup associates; The pursuit of ordinariness. St Hilda’s garden Building, Oxford. Alison and Peter Smithson; Garbage housing by Martin Pawley; Liberty communes by Brand Griffin; Map guide: Brussels by Francis Strauven; Summer session: a letter to Warren Chalk by Peter Cook; Sector. Peter Cowen, Peter Smith, Roy Landau. Buildings; Projects – Venturi and Rauch; Books; Things; Hardware by Alexander Pike; Odds and…. Letters. Cover: Garbage Hall by Adrian George.

3. March issue. Cosmorama. Meal service that is outasight – As modern as 1948 – Exhibitions Etnography – John Martin - Vienna secession – Morandi - Some American history. Frei Otto at Work. Sector by Peter McCleary Structural Clarity. Books. Think Matric. Pavilllion Design Competition. Odds and…. Letters. Cover: Frei Otto redesigned by Philip Castle

4. April issue. Cosmorama – Vacuumatics – Pneumatics – Exhibitions: Andy Warhol, Art in Revolution; SEJPIT: Jerusalem’s not so golden plan. Points from the Master Plan. Planning for Change by Ari Avrahami; TET Center, Houston by Bill Cannady; Summer Session, 1970 by Alvin Boyarsky; Sweet disorder and the carefully carelss by Robert Maxwell; The noble savage and his primitive hut by Thomas Stevens; LA: the structure behind the scene by Reyner Banham; Arcadia by Peter Cook; Large enclosures by Albert G.H. Dietz; Catalogue; Sector by M. van Emden. Odds and…; Letters. Cover: Summer Session, 1970 by Richard Yeend.

5. May issue. Cosmorama – Emergency housing Peru by Giles Marking; Exhibitions: Conceptual Walls, Gunther Uecker… Catalogue: Operating theatre package, Chairs. Papa Ponti and the Italian boom, Miscellaneous; Polemic of a structural revolution, edited by Lionel March, Marcial Echenique, Peter Dickens; The City Scale. An approach to urban studies by Marcial Echenique; A model of the urban spatial structure by Marcial Echenique. Data bank for urban models by Richard Baxter; Testing the model by David Crowther; Using models for new town design by Walton Lindsay; using models for structural plans by Robert Cheeseman and Martha Porzecanski. The Intermediate Scale. The modeling of day to day activity patterns. The simulation of university activities; the timetable as a model of schedule activities; Dairy surveys; Patterns of student activities; A simple optimizing model of site location. The Building Scale. A set theoretic description of built form; An environmental model: computer representation; An environmental model as an experimental apparatus; Evaluating circulation performance by Tom Willoughby; Structures of organization; The analysis of a comlex web of associations; Electrical networks and mosaics of rectangles by L. March and P. Steadman. Odds and.. Cover by Derek Boshier.

6. June issue. Cosmorama – Arctic cities. Notes towards the definition of wall by Robin Evans; personal rapid transport by Brian Richards; The Super Sensualists by Charles Jencks; Wittgenstein’s building Vienna by Bernard Leitner; A&PHoT by Reyner Banham; Cedric Price supplement 3, edited by Pater Murray; Map guide: J.B. Neumann by Michael Levey; Sector; Catalogue; odds.. ; Exhibitions; Calendar. Cover buildings at home by Adrian George.

 

Architectural Design. Volume XLIII.

London: The Standard catalogue Co, 1973. Numbers 3, 9.

3. March issue. Summaries/French. Cosmorama – Dams – Russian News – Flying tanker; Eco-tech: Revolutionary housing – the ecology of housing – technology for an alternative society – purely precast; Purely precast by Andrew Rabeneck; Books. Sector. Capsules by Kisaburo Kawakami Stirling University; Briefing: Theatres by Peter Moro; Patterns of Renewal by Gunther Nitschke; Carib housing by Peter Kloos; Round-up; Product guide; Catalogue. Feedback. Summaries/German. Cover: Stirling University visualized by Trevor Sutton.

9. September issue. Summaries/French. Cosmorama. Ten impressions of a three week visit to Los Angeles by Jenny Lowe and Nigel Coates. The LA connection: pushing freeways by Peter Plagens. Sanctuaries by Bernard Tchumi. Mickey Mouse the great dictator by Roy Landau. Ersatz in LA by Charles Jencks. Fitch – guide to US architecture by Reyner Banham. Services. Round-up. Summaries/German. Cover: photomontage by Gunther de Graaff.

 

Architectural Design. Volume XLIV.

London: The Standard catalogue Co, 1974. Numbers 1, 4, 8, 9, 11 + 12. 

1. January issue. Summaries/French. Ideas (henceforth replaces ‘Cosmorama’) - Woodhenge. Capsules, Information City. A cybernetic approach. Natural Architecture. Marine cities; Pick of the projects: fifth announcement; Free University, Berlin by Manfred Schiedhelm; Solar Energy part II by Colin Moorcraft; Briefing: Centres for storage and distribution by Jolyon Drury; Interactions and transformation: urban structure and urban form by Peter Smithson; Toronto notebook by Gerry Foley; Planning; Round-up; Letters; Check list; catalogue. Summaries/German. Cover: solar power collage by Tony Vesely.

4. April issue. Summaries/French. Ideas – House of the Century. Biotecture; Pick of the Projects; Participation workshops by Barbara Goldstein; To embrace the machine by Peter Smithson; China: the road to wisdom has no end… Housing and people; Aerolande; Reptiles; National monuments by Melvin Charney; CEBG versus national needs by Robert Drew; B&B factory – piano & rogers; DRS/DMG 1973 – Gianni Scudo critique; Planning. Round up. Catalogue. Letters. Summaries/German. Cover: drawing by Adrian George.

8. August issue. Summaries/French. Proposal for a Manhattan Skyline by Alan Wexler; Letters. Books; Fantasy. Charles de Gaulle Airport (Paris) at Roissy. Photo report by Monica Pidgeon; Norwegian house buyer options by Andrew Rabeneck; Planning and transportation. Euroharbour. Revivalist meeting with Mayer Hillman; Exhibitions; Central Milton Keynes; Round-up. Adaptable building a la Yona Friedman; Summaries/German. Cover. The heart of Milton Keynes.

9. September issue. Summaries/French. Security’s big rip-off; urban Impasse; Letters; Books; Suburbs, toys, lumps + seaside, rural calm. Five situations offered by Pater Cook…; Mat-building: how to recognize and read it. Alison Smithson presents…; Solar house at Rickmansworth. Graham Stevens discusses…; Energy conservation policy. Robert Drew reviews a Dutch report on national energy policies….; CUPID – a computer game. Krishna Mathur has devised a computer…; Planning. Maida Vale redevelopment; Housing; Round-up. RIBA awards; Arts Dadd as a precedent. Black Box Theatre. Summaries/German. Cover. Collage by Peter Cook. Photo by Sandra May .

11. November issue. Summaries/French. Death of a Community. David Hamilton-Eddy, a psychologist..; The Alexander Pike Autonomous House; Peter harper’s Directory of ‘Alternative technology’. User design. Yona Friedman has been able to put some of his theories into practice….; Briefing: The university campus.; Collective design: collective quality. This is the fifth in the series by Alison and Peter Smithson; Street smarts. Lars Lerup, Roberto Brambilla and Gianni Longo demonstrate the potential of the street’ as a potential part of a rich urban life; Letters. Books. Energy pandemonium. Costis Stambolis reviews….; Land; Round-up. Arts. Seiichi Niikuni and concrete poetry. Automobile art. Art into landscape. Live in Dubuffet. Five young architects. British Art/Old boy network; Summaries/German. Cover. Susan Coe visualizes the idea of ‘university.

12. December issue. Summaries/French. SHIME: Binding/Unbinding. An investigation by Gunther Nitschke…; Play net. Mark Fisher describes the AA Nice Ideas unit’s project for a play-net for and adventure playground in N. London; Students’ self-build home in Portsmouth. Trevor James and Andrew Rabeneck contribute a third article in their series on forms of housing ..; Planning; Round-up. Meta communication. Converting a bus. Evolution of lines….Arts. Germany in London. Stained glass by the M2. Jasper Johns. Chile in London. Summaries/German. Cover. From the first cosmos to the cosmogenic mode….

 

Architectural Design. Volume XLV.

London: The Standard catalogue Co, 1975. Numbers 1, 2, 7, 11.

1. January issue. Summaries/French. Asian games. James Stirling takes a tongue-in-cheek look at a congress of star architects in Persepolis.; Housing Problems Limited: desperate measures in the boardroom. A parable by Martin Pawley, with drawings by David Widmer; Letters. Books; Solar buildings in the Pyrenees. Ian Hogan, of Low Impact Design, describes the houses of the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique…; American Alternatives. Last summer Alain Gerrand, of Low Impact Design, made a trip round the US…; The Space between. Walter Menzies explores the space between work and culture and the space between the houses in a residential area…; Folie de grandeur.; Making buildings and communities which really live. The Centre for Environmental Structure, founded by Christopher Alexander, is currently involved in a project to control the present deterioration of Spanish tourist areas…; Housing Case study in Brazil !!: Vila 31 de Marco, Belo Horizonte. David Gosling describes the history and progress…; Disaster housing: a case study of Managua. Ian Davis has been conducting research…; A changing view on Change. Thomas Gilmore continues discussion..; GLC Housing competition for the Royal Mint Square; Planning and transportation; Housing; Arts. Christo’s spontaneous commentary. Poules de luxe; Round up; Summaries/German. Cover. Pumping windmill in the sunset photographs by Alain Gerrand.

2. February issue. Summaries/French. Feedback; Books; Opportunity Dockes. Guest editor Nicholas Falk. Past / Present / Futures / Action; ‘t Hool…by architects van den Broek and Bakema; Computers in architectural design; Round up. Bil Howell. Solar House. Solar Energy…; Arts. La Defense. Stonehenge. 20^th Century; Publications received; Summaries/German. Cover. Docklands, visualized by Graham Whatley.

7. July issue. Protest. David Wild tilts at architectural education; Letters. Books; Creation, creativity ad Architecture. Frei Otto’s address to the UIA Congress in Madrid; Megastructures. P. Reyner Banham, at the UIA congress…; Bofill Taller de Arquitectura; Willis, Faber & Dumas: Ipswich Centre. Foster associates are the..; Newcastles in the air; De-architecturization: the iconography of disaster. James Wines, American architect, explores; How to divert the course of architecture in cartoon form. Chris Fawcett meditates on ‘irony’ and ‘image’ and the architectural urge towards ‘no form’..; Alternative technology; Housing; Planning; Round up. Alternatives for Les Halles. UIA congress material..; Arts Kenneth martin. Shakers Claes Oldenburg. Cover. Photomontage by Trevor Sutton on the work of the Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

11. November issue. Letters. Books. Originators. Lydia Kahn…is interviewed by Barbara Goldstein; Housing by people. The third of seven essays by John F. Charlewood Turner; Skopje rebuilt; Team 10 at Royaumont, 1962. The text of this meeting, edited by Alison Smithson, is published here for the first time…; Developments in urban transport: Japan; Roosevelt Island housing competition; Consumer comforts; Garbage housing in North London; Housing. Tom Woolley reviews the state of play of the squatting movement in England; Round up; Arts. Jasia Reichardt reviews the sculpture of George Rickey and Nat Goodde. Cover. Trevor Sutton visualizes the Team 10 Conference at Royaumont in 1962.

 

Volume 47 1/77.

6.June issue. Letters. Books. FLW’s Usonian Houses..; AD PROFILES 6: AMERICA NOW. Robert Stern guest edits this issue of AD; Drawing Towards a More Modern Architecture; The Necessity for Drawings: Tangible Speculation. Michael graves describes…; Selected Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Selected drawings to the Drawing Center; Richard B Oliver deals with the role of drawings as an atmospheric visual language of design…; Planning; Structures.

All quarto’s,  illustrated throughout in black and white and in color + numerous advertisements. All issues in fine or near fine condition.