DESIGN QUARTERLY nos. 68 – 83
12-Issue Bound Volume from 1967 - 1971
592 pages of the Stuff Dreams are Made of
Peter Seitz et al [Editors]: DESIGN QUARTERLY. Minneapolis; Walker Art Center; Issues No. 68 – 83, 1967 - 1971. [12] original editions from a non-circulating Arts Institution bound in library buckram with wrappers retained and bound in. Institutional stamps to wrappers and textblock edges. [592] pp. Articles fully illustrated in black and white. A very influential publication, quite uncommon.
[12] 8.5 x 11 softcover magazines with 24–76 pages -- all addressing the messy issues and fallout from the dream and lie of the utopian visions of the 1960s. Good Stuff indeed.
Highlights from this bound volume include Design and Light by György Kepes, a Gio Ponti Double Issue, the legendary Conceptual Architecture Double Issue, Making the City Observable by Richard Saul Wurman, and much more. Check out the contents for these 12 issues:
DESIGN QUARTERLY No. 68, 1967. Design and Light by György Kepes
- Contents: 32 pages and 93 black and white illustrations. In this special issue of Design Quarterly György Kepes carries on the pedagogical tradition of fusing art and science that his mentor Moholy-Nagy pioneered at the Bauhaus and in Chicago at the Institute of Design. The three illustrtaed essays presented here carry the torch first lit by Moholy-Nagy and Gropius in their Bauhausbücher series.
- Introduction by Peter Seitz
- Light as a Creative Medium
- Light and Color
- The Creative use of Light in Design and Architecture
- About the Author: Guest editor György Kepes chronicles a history of light, both its creation and perception, used for artistic expression. Having worked with László Moholy-Nagy in Berlin and having led the Department of Light and Color at the Institute of Design in Chicago, Kepes draws upon innumerable examples of experimental work with light. Artistic and scientific experiments with light came to the fore in the 1960s when its status a new medium of expression was evident in everything from liquid light shows at rock concerts to Dan Flavin’s signature use of fluorescent light tubes. The Walker would also host the exhibition Light/Motion/Space that same year, featuring the work of artists such as Otto Piene, Julio Le Parc, and the USCO collective.
- Includes work by Richardo Legometa, Moshe Sadfie, Norman Carlberg, David Smith, Y. Rechter & M. Zarhy, Hammel, Green & Abrahamson, Inc., Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gyorgy Kepes, Robert Preusser, Erwin Müller, Karl Gerstner, Julio Le Parc, Wurster, Meyer & Sandfield, Herbert Gesner, Goerge-Pierre Seurat, Otto Piene, William M. Murray, F. Stahly, Ervin Hauer, Paul Talman, Richard Lippold, Mies Van Der Rohe, Brinkman & Van Der Vlugt, Ashley Havinden, Sir Basil Spence, Heinz Waibl, Pier Luigi Nervi, George Kostritsky, William Lamb, William Wainwright, & Michio Ihara, Louis I. Kahn, Marcel Beuer & Hamilton Smith, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Philip Johnson as the Beaver.
DESIGN QUARTERLY 69 – 70, 1967. The Expression of Gio Ponti Double Issue
- Contents: 72 pages and 145 color and black and white illustrations.
- Introduction by Peter Selz; chronological list of works in design and architecture, 1925-1966, and exhibitions, p. 67-68; extensive bibliography of writings by and about Gio Ponti, including numerous periodical references. And did we mention the Foreword by Charles Eames?
DESIGN QUARTERLY 71, 1968. Mass Transit: Problem and Promise
- Contents: 40 pages fully illustrated in black and white. Published catalog for an exhibition of the same name assembled by Peter Seitz in 1968.
- Mass Transit: Problem and Promiseby Patricia Conway George
- Sections include:
- Transportation Between Cities [Washington to New York; New York to Boston]
- Transportation Within Cities [Japan's Tokaido Line; The Car Ferry Concept; Montreal's Metro; San Francisco; Washington D.C.; Updating Existing Systems]
- The Horizontal Elevator
- Advanced Transit Systems [Pneumatic Tubes; Ground effect vehicles; Small car systems; Monorails]
- The Automobile as Mass Transit
- Mass Transit and Urban Form
- List of Works
DESIGN QUARTERLY 72, 1968: Towards the Future by John McHale
- Contents: 36 pages and 34 black and white illustrations edited and art directed by Peter Seitz.
- From the introduction: "John McHale . . . is Executive Director for the World Resource Inventory, a study group concerned with the future utilization of man's resources. Various private, industrial and governmental study groups such as the World Resource Inventory are developing new materials and an ecological approach to the design of our cities and industrial outputs."
- Includes work by General Motors, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the U.S. Navy, American Submarine Co., International Hydrodynamics Co. and Westinghouse among others.
DESIGN QUARTERLY 73, 1969: Form Follows Fiction
- Contents: 32 pages and many black-and-white illustrations and three fold outs [Tony Shafrazi]: It may happen—and I believe we should encourage it—that the disciplines of tastemaking are replaced by a new discipline of seeing.
- Christopher Finch served as Curator and Editor and Andrew Rabeneck and Tony Shafrazi were Guest Editors for this issue that featured work by Le Corbusier, Robert Grovrenor, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Marcel Duchamp, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Morris, Tony Shafrazi, Richard Hamilton, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Eduardo Paolazzo, Bob Graham and Walter De Maria among others.
DESIGN QUARTERLY 74 – 75, 1969: Process and Imagination Double Issue
- Christopher Finch served as Curator and Editor
- Contents: 66 pages and many black-and-white illustrations and two fold outs.
- Introduction One: Christopher Finch
- Sant'elia
- Russia: The Radical Revolutionaries [includes work by Tchernikov, V. Tatlin, El Lissitzky and G. Barchin
- Hugh Ferriss
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Bruce Goff
- Paolo Soleri
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
- Frei Otto
- Archigram
- Introduction Two: Christopher Finch
- Claes Oldenburg: fire plugs
- E. T. & D. W. Bowen
- Barry Le Va
- Sia Armajani [two fold outs]
DESIGN QUARTERLY 76, 1970: Easy Come Easy Go
- Mildred Friedman served as Curator and Editor and Daniel Solomon contributed the essay “"Notes on Ephemera,” and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon designed the whole thing.
- Contents: 28 pages and many black-and-white illustrations, including work by Jensen-Lewis, Daniel Solomon and Barbara Stauffacher, Hirshen & Van der Ryn, François Dallegret, Ulrich Franzen, André Courreges, Christian Girard, Shigeo Tanaka, Paul Rudolph and Soichi Hata and Akira Saito among others.
- Originally conceived as an issue dedicated to the phenomenon of “supergraphics,” guest editors and designers Barbara Stauffacher Solomon and Daniel Solomon broadened that charge to consider architecture in an age of disposability and ephemerality. Stauffacher Solomon designed the issue, bringing her revolutionary architectural-scale typography of the supergraphic to bear on the small-scale real estate of the magazine page. Daniel Solomon, who penned the text, argues for architecture to embrace the contemporary conditions of the ephemeral and even the fashionable, drawing parallels to the world of modern industrial design such as the automobile and to experimental works of architecture like modular or plug-in living units that can be changed over time as well as the period’s call for more a systems-based architecture. The specter of environmental degradation, however, seems oddly downplayed in the issue which was published the same year as the first Earth Day.
DESIGN QUARTERLY 77, 1970: Projects for Urban Spaces by M. Paul Friedberg
- Contents: 36 pages fully illustrated in black and white.
- Introduction
- Private Space for Public Use
- Quasi-Public Spaces
- Public Space for Total Use
- New Priorities for Public Use
- Art for Public Use
- Planning for Communities
- Project Credits
DESIGN QUARTERLY 78 – 79, 1970: Conceptual Architecture Double Issue
- Edited by John S. Margolies.
- Contents: 68 pages and many black-and-white illustrations. "The overall theme of the issue will be related to the following concepts: the communications environment; the psychological environment; the entertainment environment.” Instead of arresting spreads, the magazine as a whole is an arresting object. Must be experienced.
- Peter Eisenman: opening essay on conceptual architecture [pages 1-5]
- Ant Farm [pages 6-10]
- Archigram [pages 11-16]
- Archizoom [pages 17-21]
- Francois Dallegret [pages 22-28]
- Haus-Rucker-Company [pages 29-33]
- Craig Hodgetts [pages 34-36]
- Les Levine [pages 37-41]
- Onyx [pages 42-46]
- Ed Ruscha [pages 47-53]: Five 1965 Girlfriends
- Super Studio [pages 54-58]
- Also a special section documenting the Minneapolis conference "Hennepin: The Future of an Avenue"
DESIGN QUARTERLY 80, 1971: Making the City Observable by Richard Saul Wurman
- Contents: 96 pages and and over 200 illustrations from photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams. “Making the City Observable is a catalogue of projects, ideas, books, guides, maps, advertisements and curricula that offer some means to a better understanding of rhe environment". It "explores some of the existing data systems which describe, in visual terms, various urban entities: transportation systems, roadways, public buildings, land patterns, [etc.].”
DESIGN QUARTERLY 81, 1971: Edward Larrabee Barnes' Walker Art Center Design
- Contents: 24 pages and many black and white illustrations devoted to Edward Larrabee Barnes Walker Art Center Design including floor plans, elevations, a statement by the architect, interior and exterior photographs, specifications and cost.
DESIGN QUARTERLY 82 – 83, 1971: Advocacy: A Community Planning Voice Double Issue
- Contents: 62 pages fully illustrated in black and white and edited by Mildred S. Friedman
- Introduction
- Advocacy: A Community Planning Voice
- Introduction
- Editor's Notes
- A Congressional View of Community Participation in the Planning Process by Senator Walter F. Mondale
- The CDC Story by Vernon Williams
- Education
- Harvard's Urban Field Service: A Retrospective View by Chester Hartmann
- The Black Architect at Yale by Richard Dozier
- Education for Community Action by Eugene Grigsby
- Projects
- Projects for Change or Changing Plans by Richard Ridley
- Young Great Society Building Foundation, Inc., Philadelphia
- Neighborhood Design Center, Baltimore
- A Legal View of Grass Roots Community Development by Cora Walker
- Cleveland Design Center
- Architects Workshop, Philadelphia
- Metro Link—A CDC in the South by Zachary Weiss
- Community Design Associates, Pittsburgh
- Urban Workshop, Miami
- Community Design Center of Minnesota
Design Quarterly began as Everyday Art Quarterly, published by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis starting in 1946. The editorial focus aimed to bring modern design to the masses through thoughtful examination of household objects and their designers. Everyday Art Quarterly was a vocal proponent of the Good Design movement (as represented by MoMA and Chicago's Merchandise Mart) and spotlighted the best in industrial and handcrafted design. When the magazine became Design Quarterly in 1958, the editors assumed a more international flair in their selection of material to spotlight.
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