1941 Raphael Soriano ARCHITECTURAL FORUM Paul THIRY

THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM December 1941

Includes a Paul Thiry Church Design and a Raphael Soriano House

Howard Myer [editor]: THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM December 1941. New York City: Time, Inc. 1941 [Volume 75, Number 6]. A very good original magazine with perfect-binding and shelf wear including a cocked spine missing a small chip on the bottom. Interior unmarked and very clean.

9 x 11.75 perfect-bound magazine with approx. 150 pages of editorial content and an excellent assortment of vintage trade advertisements that espouse the wartime streamline aesthetic quite nicely. A magnificent snapshot of the still-blossoming modern movement in North America.

CONTENTS

• CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE LAKE: A contemporary design recaptures the spirit of the early churches [Paul Thiry, Architect; 5 pages with 10 b/w illustrations]
• HOUSES: The place of the custom-designed house in the defense program . . .
• HOUSES FOR DEFENSE: The 840-unit Government project at Bremerton, WA is a plug for the private architectural profession – an object lesson in large scale planning and design [includes a house by Raphael Soriano]
• AVERAGE HOUSE ANALYZED: A statistical analysis of the 160,000 one-family houses built under the FHA program last year
• MARITIME TRAINING STATION: Public Buildings Administration design at its best in an interesting St. Petersburg, FL defense project
• BUILDING FOR DEFENSE: Headway and Headaches – terse interpretations of significant developments of the month in priorities, prices and defense housing
• INDUSTRIAL DEFENSE PLANTS: Pictures, plans, detail drawings and descriptive data – three more in a series of industrial building case histories: Consolidated Aircraft Corp. in San Diego . . . Packard Motor Car Co.'s three Rolls-Royce aircraft engine factories in Detroit . . . Greenfield Tap and Die Corp. in Greenfield, MA
• CARDINAL HAYES HIGH SCHOOL: A Catholic secondary school for 3,000 boys makes the most of a difficult site
• STORE REMODELING: Eleanor LeMaire does a complete facelifitng for the men's department of Neiman Marcus store in Dallas. Two versatile firms turn a hand to glamorizing background's for Marshall Field's women's dresses
• MONTH IN BUILDING: $850 million architect retires . . . Parckchester IV for Virginia . . . Comments from four of Building's big conventions: realtors, savings and loaners, savings bankers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• FORUM OF EVENTS: The war-time face of civilian London . . . Portable overpass . . . Parking garage under a park . . . Announcements and awards
• BOOKS
• LETTERS

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