The evolution of an architect. txt
Edward Durell Stone.
- 288 p. ill. ;photo. ;plans. ; 27 cm. book
Include index
Akron, Downtown Redevelopment, Akron, Ohio, 1957 -- Civic Center and Pedestrian mall (page 198) -- All Souls Unitarian church, Schenectady, New York, 1958 -- Sanctuary and principal façade (206) Plan (207) Altschul Library, Stamford, Connecticut, 1939 -- South façade (66) -- Library interior and plans (67) -- Bay Roc hotel, Montego Bay, Jamaica, BWI, 1952 -- lounge area (74) -- aerial view and site plan (75) -- typical guest house atrium, guest houses and guest house plan (76) -- dining tent (77) -- Beckman auditorium, California Institute of technology, Pasadena, California, 1960 -- cutaway perspective of interior, aerial view and plan (240) -- Carlton house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1961 -- perspective and plan (243) -- Carmelita cultural center, Pasadena, California, 1960 -- aerial view and plan (197) -- Celanese house, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1958 -- entrance facade and living room (216) -- entrance hall and dining room (217) -- Central American states pavilion, 1964 world's fair, New York, 1962 -- perspective and plan (256) -- Chatham Motor hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1962 -- courtyard detail and plan (272) -- aerial view (273) -- Christian science building, 1964 world's fair, New York, 1962 -- aerial view and plan (259) -- Collier's house of ideas, Rockefeller Center, New York City, 1940 -- exterior view (100) -- exterior view, plans and living room (101) -- El Panamá hotel, Panamá City, Canal Zone, 1946 -- south facade and typical floor plan (68) -- main floor plan and loggia (70) -- covered terrace (71) -- corridor, typical room, guest room terrace and typical room plan (72) -- guest room (73) -- Ford Foundation Theater, 1961 -- model: exterior and interior (227) -- Four-hundred South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida, 1962 -- perspective and plan (274) -- water garden (275) -- Fulbright furniture, 1945-1946 -- stool, chairs, table and sofa (103) -- Gallery of modern art, including the Huntington Hartford collection, New York City, 1958 -- plans and section (204) -- facade, Columbus circle (205) -- Goodyear house, Old Westbury, Connecticut, 1938 -- south façade (60) -- terrace and plan (62) -- living room and gallery (63) -- master bedroom and gallery (64) -- dining room (65) -- Graf house, Dallas, Texas, 1956 -- garden façade (176) -- plans and entrance facade (177) -- living room and second floor terrace (178) -- dining room and swimming pool (179) -- Grant house, greenwich, connecticut, 1948 -- south facade and plan (111) -- enclosed court and living room (112) -- detail of enclosed court (113) -- Greenfield house, philadelphia, pennsylvania, 1953 -- entrance hall (132) -- site plan, entrance hall and main entrance (133) -- recreation room (134) -- Hartford pavilion, central park, new york city, 1960 -- perspective from park, plan and aerial view (226) -- Hospital of social security for employees, lima, peru, 1950 -- entrance facade and nurses' dormitory (80) -- aerial view (81) -- Hunt & winterbotham store, new york city, 1939 -- interior views (86) -- International college, beirut, lebanon, 1961 -- aerial view of site (232) -- classroom building: elevation, plans. Section (233) -- student union building. Aerial view, section and plan (234) -- International trade mart, new orleans, louisiana, 1959 -- perspective (199) -- Jones house, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1954 -- entrance facade, plan and garden terrace (131) -- Kimmel house, Westchester county, New York, 1947 -- garden facade and entrance façade (104) -- entrance facade, plan and view of living room from terrace (105) -- Knoll house, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1948 -- west façade (114) -- view of deck and plan (115) -- Koch house, cambridge, massachusetts, 1936 -- cloistered garden (52) -- plans, entrance facade and living room (53) -- Kowalski house, mount kisco, new york, 1934 -- west facade and plans (46) -- east facade, master bedroom and dressing room (47) -- Liebman house, mount kisco, new york, 1937 -- aerial view and plan (54) -- Life magazine row housing, 1958 -- aerial view site plans: conventional development and row house development (194) -- row house plans (195) -- Linder house, scranton, pennsylvania, 1948 -- entrance porch and garden façade (116) -- living room and plan (117) -- Luce plantation, moncks corner, south carolina, 1936 -- entrance and plan (48) -- typical guest house living room and guest houses (49) -- serpentine wall and stable group (50) -- main guest house (51) -- Maduro house, great neck, new york, 1947 -- entrance facade and plan (106) -- entrance gate and living room (107) -- Mandel house, mount kisco, new york, 1933 -- south façade (42) -- plans (43) -- south façade (44) -- living room and dining room (45) -- Metropolitan museum of art, contemporary american industrial art exhibit, new york city, 1940 -- dining room and chair (102) -- Mosque for pakistan international airways, karachi, pakistan, 1962 -- early solution (206) -- aerial view (261) -- Mudd college, claremont, california, 1958 -- view of courtyard (262) -- classroom and administration building and site plan (263) -- Museum of modern art, new york city, 1937 -- entrance façade (55) -- garden façade (56) -- sculpture gallery, auditorium lounge, auditorium and plans: third floor and basement (57) -- members' penthouse lounge, library, main stair and plans (58) -- National cultural center, washington, d.c., 1959 -- aerial view (201) -- plan (211) -- interior of grand salon (212) -- model and perspectives (214) -- model and plan (215) -- National football hall of fame, new brunswick, new jersey, 1961 -- perspective, plan and section (244) -- interior of great hall (245) -- National geographic society office building, washington, d.c., 1961 -- perspective and floor plan (252) -- National presbyterian church, a proposal, washington, d.c., 1959 -- exterior perspective (222) -- section and main floor plan (224) -- sanctuary interior (225) -- North carolina legislative building, raleigh, north carolina, 1960 -- aerial of model (228) -- section and plan (229) -- North jersey music center, englewood, new jersey, 1960 -- entrance facade and plan (235) -- Office building, new york city, 1962 -- perspective (270) -- exterior wall section and plan (271) -- Our lady of mepkin abbey, moncks corner, south carolina, 1958 -- aerial view (208) -- plan and aerial view (209) -- Pakistan institute of nuclear science and technology, islamabad, pakistan, 1961 -- Aerial view (246) -- site plan (247) -- perspective: main entrance (248) -- detail: reactor building (249) -- Palo alto libraries, palo alto, california, 1956 -- main library facade and plan (172) -- main library reading room (173) -- branch library children's room, plan and facade (174) -- Palo alto hospital and stanford medical center, palo alto, california, 1955 -- entrance facade and palo alto pavilion (168) -- plan (169) -- entrance facade (170) -- Paterno house, north salem, new york, 1959 -- entrance courtyard and garden terrace (218) -- garden room and plan (219) -- Peninsula community hospital, carmel, california, 1959 -- entrance facade and plan (276) -- entrance court (277) -- inner court from lobby (278) -- exterior detail and bedroom plan (280) -- solarium (281) -- Perpetual savings and loan association, los angeles, california, 1961 -- exterior and plan (254) -- branch: exterior and plan (255) -- Phoenicia hotel, beirut, lebanon, 1954 -- facade on Mediterranean (166) -- loggia and plan (167) -- Ponce museum of art, ponce, puerto rico, 1961 -- aerial view and plan (264) -- galleries, roof lifted (265) -- Popper house, white plains, new york, 1949 -- garden façade (120) -- living room. Study and plan (121) -- Radiological laboratory for indian atomic energy department, trombay, india, 1960 -- aerial perspective and plan (231) -- Rayburn house, white plains, new york, 1949 -- exterior view (108) -- plan, dining room and living room (109) -- Reef point hotel, laguna beach, california, 1961 -- aerial view (250) -- plan (251) -- Robinson house, harrison, arkansas, 1953 -- entrance facade and plan (128) -- guest houses (130) -- Rosenberg house, englewood, new jersey, 1950 -- upper level entrance and lower level façade (124) -- plans and living room (125) -- Sales office for pakistan international airways, rawalpindi, pakistan, 1962 -- preliminary studies (266) -- aerial view (267) -- San salvador hotel, el salvador, central america, 1952 -- aerial view and plans 78 -- Sherwood apartments for the elderly, asheville, north carolina, 1961 -- perspective and plan 257 -- Sigma nu fraternity house, university of arkansas, fayetteville, arkansas, 1951 -- main entrance and plan (126) -- chapter room and living room (127) -- Simon & schuster offices, new york city, 1939 -- office exterior and interior, corridor and plan (79) -- Smart house, pine bluff, arkansas, 1948 -- entrance facade and plan (119) -- Spiegel apartment, new york city, 1959 -- Study (220) -- entrance gallery and dining room (221) -- State university of new york albany center, albany, new york, 1962 -- aerial view (282) -- view from south and detail of dormitory (284) -- site plan (285) -- elevation and view of main entrance (286) -- Stech house, armonk village, new york, 1947 -- exterior view, plan and living room (110) -- Stone, edward durell -- frontispiece -- Stone town house, new york city, 1956 -- Façade (180) -- living room from gallery (181) -- gallery (182) -- library and covered terrace (183) -- Stuart company, pasadena, california, 1956 -- plan and entrance façade (184) -- detail: entrance façade (185) -- atrium (186) -- garden pavilion (187) -- Thurnauer house, englewood, new jersey, 1949 -- entrance facade and plan (122) -- terrace, atrium and plan (123) -- Tulsa civic center, tulsa, oklahoma, 1960 -- entrance facade of auditorium and arena and site plan (200) -- aerial view (201) -- United states embassy, new delhi, india, 1954 -- facade (colorplate) (3) -- entrance facade and site plan (160) -- water garden (162) -- chancellery plan aluminum mesh detail (163) -- staff quarters and servants' quarters (164) -- detail: facade (165) -- United states naval academy, annapolis, maryland, 1961 -- aerial view of academy (236) -- barracks: model and plan (238) -- science building: model and plan (239) -- United states pavilion, brussels, belgium, 1957 -- principal façade (188) -- detail: principal façade (190) -- and site plan interior of exhibition hall and roof detail (191) -- theater interior (192) -- theater foyer (193) -- university of arkansas, fine arts center, fayetteville, arkansas, 1949 -- sculpture garden (82) -- plan and exterior view (83) -- concert hall and library (84) -- exhibition gallery (85) -- University of arkansas, married students' housing, fayetteville, arkansas, 1957 -- facade and plan (196) -- University of chicago, center for continuing education, chicago, illinois, 1959 -- facade and plan (230) -- University of south carolina library, columbia, south carolina, 1957 -- facade and plan (175) -- victoria theater, new york city, 1949 -- theater interior and aluminum mesh detail (118) -- wapda house, lahore, w. Pakistan, 1962 -- loggia and plan (268) -- aerial view (269) -- West side apartments, urban renewal, new york city, 1961 -- perspective and plan (242) -- windham college, putney, vermont, 1961 -- aerial view (258) -- yardley of london, inc., totowa, new jersey, 1958 -- entrance façade, courtyard and plan (202) -- entrance hall (203) --
In this monumental volume, one of the most important architects of our time gives us his own life story, and reveals the development of his work in several hundred magnifcent photographs, plans and drawings. When the publisher told Edward Durell Stone that The New York Times called him "one of the most controversial architects in America today," he replied, "I'd rather be universal than controversial." Readers of this book will discover that he is both. The fascinating story of Edward Durell Stone's career spans over sixty years of American life, and he tells it with unforgettable warmth and wit. Beginning with an idyllic childhood in an atmosphere of serenity and affluence, he describes the town of his youth, the "hot bed of tranquility in the Ozarks, and then takes us in rapid scenes to Boston, New York, Washington and Europe. It is on a morning in New York that the visual miracle occurs: We see precisely how the seeds of architecture take root in his imagination, and we witness the flowering of the talent that has created an incredible variety of romantically beautiful structures-houses, churches, hotels, universities, buildings of every description celebrated throughout the world. The story of Edward Stone's career parallels the story of modern architecture. In the early Thirties he designs the famed Mandel and Goodyear houses and the Museum of Modern Art among others. In the Forties, he produces an enormous number of exquisite residences, varying from small houses to large estates - and moves with an incomparable surge of creativity into the Fifties to design some of the most widely discussed buildings in the world: the United States Embassy in India (hailed for its lyrical beauty by Frank Lloyd Wright), the Brussels World's Fair Pavilion, the El Panama hotel (virtually without corridors and doors-a design which has since been imitated in resort hotels allover the world), the Graf House in Dallas, the Yardley building in New Jersey and the Stuart building in Pasadena, the Stanford Medical Center, etc., etc. Now, in the Sixties, the most important creations of Edward Stone's inventive genius are under way around the globe- a series of apartment buildings and hotels in New York, Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Pittsburgh, etc., the Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art in New York, a new campus for Beirut, a mosque and a new atomic institute for Pakistan, the National Cultural Center for Washington, a revolutionary skyscraper for New York, a great number of others- among them the largest project of his fantastically productive career, a complex of buildings to form an entirely new campus for ten thousand students at State University of New York in Albany. Mr. Stone's personal life is intertwined as one with his creative career and so we discover many revealing passages of friendship and family life: delightful sketches of his parents, his formidably relaxed uncles, his imaginative architect brother; there are wonderful recollections of Frank Lloyd Wright; and, above all, the moving account of his meeting with the fascinating girl, Maria, who was to become his wife and the inspiring force in his life- a life which may be said to be in itself an American work of art. -- from dust jacket.