Architectural Record 1942-1967
Subtitle: Chapters from the history of an architectural magazine
By: Phoebus Ilias Panigyrakis
Contributors: Technische Universiteit Delft
Series: A+BE Architecture and the Built Environment -- 2020/11; A+BE Architecture and the Built Environment -- 2020/11
Publisher: BK Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Delft
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789463663014
Subjects: Architecture; Periodicals; Modern movement (Architecture); Architectural practice; Architectural Record
Other titles: Chapters from the history of an architectural magazine
Description: The Architectural Record' during its midcentury years of 1942 to 1967, was a riveting centre of architectural journalism following and participating in the changing development of the architectural profession. Through the Second World War and the Korean War that brought functionalist modernism to the foreword and through the emerging consumer market of the 1950s, the magazine's editors' mission was one of 'helping this new-born architectural infant to learn to walk, talk, and attain his full power'. Through archival research, this study deals with the particular history of the Record editors, publishers and contributors along the course of US midcentury modernism and the developing image of the architect
Notes: Doctoral dissertation, Delft University of Technology, 2020

Includes bibliographical references