Progressive Architecture; Volume LVII, No. 4, April 1976
Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. Format is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. 124 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Illustrations (many with color). This issue as a focus on Philadelphia. Contents include Editorial: Philadelphia Perceived; Philadelphia Story: Twenty-five years (almost) after the Chinese Wall; From sodhouses to PSFS; Philadelphia's Phantom School' Philadelphia '76; Of Transitions; New crystal palace: Interior architecture: From the people who brought you good taste; Specifications clinic: The architectural representative; and Open and shut. An architecture graduate of MIT, John Morris Dixon, FAIA, left the drafting board in 1960 for architectural journalism, eventually becoming editor-in-chief of Progressive Architecture (P/A) from 1972 to 1996. He has chaired the AIA’s national Committee on Design, on which he remains active, and is involved in preservation of modern architecture as a board member of Docomomo New York/Tri-State. Progressive Architecture began in 1920 as Pencil Points. It was first published as Progressive Architecture in 1945 (with early issues titled Progressive Architecture Pencil Points), and continued the volume numbering of the earlier version. It ran until 1995. The editors of Progressive Architecture magazine hosted the first Progressive Architecture Award jury in 1954, with a jury of Victor Gruen, George Howe, Eero Saarinen, and Fred Severud. Progressive Architecture magazine ended the awards in 1987. In 1997, Hanley Wood, owner of Architecture magazine, restarted Progressive Architecture Awards. In 2007, Architecture folded, and the awards were inherited by a new publication, titled ARCHITECT. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Architecture, Philadelphia, Crystal Palace, City Planning, Urban Renewal, Sodhouses, Robert Coombs, Walter Kidney, Bicentennial, Penn Mutual, Louis Sauer, Office Tower, Beaux-Artrs, Door Manufacturers
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