Progressive Architecture December 1974. Text in English. Cover: detail view, southeast elevation of St. Bede's Abbey Worship Assembly building in Peru, III. by Mitchell/Giurgola Associates. Photo: Rene Burri.
Design and planning
-Editorial: Architecture for export
-Between culture and context
A college music building and a abbey monastery, with similar cultural
concerns, result in widely different design solutions.
Two recent buildings by Mitchell/Giurgola illustrate a pair of widely
divergent design solutions stemming from essentially the same
architectural considerations. With floor plans.
St. Bede's Worship Assembly Building
Swarthmore College music building
-Fashion with style
Everything from the Bottega Glaseia's facade to dress labels to match
books reflects the unified image given it by the architect.
From matchbooks to dress labels, a totally designed boutique creates
a unified image and allows the merchandise to be the most important
visual statement
-Pilgrims with painted faces - Visual conservation in Portsmouth, N.H.
A small, nonprofit organization working on a shoestring budget is helping
to bring about visual renaissance of Portmouth, N.H.
-On the road to Jedda - Mecca Conference Center by Walter Theim
*Overcoming severe obstacles, the first suspension structure is completed
in the Middle East: a conference center outside Mecca.
*A response to severe climate and programming problems, the new conference
center outside Mecca includes first suspension structure in Middle East.
*Floor Plan and selected technics details.
-In the Swink -Howard Swink Advertising In., Office Building, Marion, Ohio
A small office building, considered noteworthy at its inception
(P/A Citation, 1972) bears witness to the fact in its completed form.
In a small Ohio town, Architects Don M. Hisaka & Associates have added
a piece of minimal architecture whose form emerged directly from the
program.
Technics
-Specifications clinic: Sealants, part 1 - by John P. Cook
A brief response to architects' requests for more information on sealants.
As the reader will soon discover, specifying sealants is a precise art.
-The capture of the sun in California by Gruen Associates
Technics: Wells Fargo Bank Building
A new office building in Oakland effectively combines sensitive design
and a high performance fluocarbon metal coating to tame the sun.
Floor Plan
-The Aluminum peacock
A discussion of the high performance aluminum coatings as compared to
their alternatives, anodized and enameled aluminum finishes.
-Selected details: "Kafess" and skin used in Mecca conferences center.
Ring marks near bottom of cover.
132 pages