Apartments and Dormitories: An Architectural Record Book

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962. Hardcover. vii, [1], 232 p.: illustrations, plans; 30 cm. Grey cloth with black spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Presents designs for apartment buildings that had previously appeared in Architectural Record in the past few years and for dormitories and other college housing. Includes articles on design and construction of housing in Vallingby in Stockholm; Brazil and Peru; and Park Forest, Illinois; as well as Castlemont Gardens in Oakland, California; the H. C. Price Tower, the only skyscraper by Frank Lloyd Wright ever built; Fordham Hill Apartments in the Bronx, NY; U.S. embassy staff housing in Tokyo; the Elkay Apartments in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles by Richard Neutra; the Brentwood Garden Apartments in Los Angeles, described as "apartments designed for single people"; the Bel Air Garden Apartments in Los Angeles by A. Quincy Jones, Jr.; housing at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, by Marcel Breuer; a cooperative dormitory at Vassar College, also by Breuer; and residence halls by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: slightly cocked; clean and tight. Near Fine. Item #010895

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