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RECOMMENDED READING ON MODERN DESIGN
DESIGN IN THE UNITED STATES | | New York. Museum of Modern Art. Organic Design in
Home Furnishings, by Eliot F. Noyes. 48 p. illus. New York,
Museum of Modern Art, 1941. | | | Detroit. Institute of Arts. an exhibition for modern living.
101 p. illus. Detroit, 1949. Edited by A. H. Girard and W. D. Laurie, Jr. Articles by
John Kouwenhoven and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. | | | New York. Museum of Modern Art. Prize Designs for
Modern Furniture, by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., 77 p. illus.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1950. | | | Interiors. New York. Periodical published by Whitney Publications, Inc., 18
East 50th Street. $5.00 annually. 62nd year of publication. | | | Everyday Art Quarterly. A Guide to Well Designed Products.
Minneapolis, Minn. Periodical published by the Walker Art Center, 1710
Lyndale Ave. South. $1.00 annually. 5th year of publi-
cation. | | | Current Design. Boston. Periodical published by the Institute of Contemporary
Art, Department of Design, 138 Newbury Street. $10.00
annually. Publication begun Spring, 1950. |
DESIGN IN EUROPE | | Aloi Roberto. L'Arredamento Moderno. 4. serie. 34 p. plus
820 illus. Milano, U. Hoepli, 1949. | | | Raben Hans, ed. Det Moderna Hemmet. Inredningskonst i
Sverige och andra länder. 383 p. illus. Stockholm, Bokför-
laget Natur och Kultur, 1942. 588 illustrations, 24 color plates. | | | Domus. Rivista mensile di architettura, arredamento, arte.
Milan. Periodical published by la Editoriale Domus, via Monte
di Pietà, 15. 23rd year of publication. | | | Form. Svenska Slöjdföreningens tidskrift. Stockholm. Periodical published by the Svenska Slöjdföreningen.
46th year of publication, English summaries. | | | Werk. Schweizer Monatsschrift für Architektur, Kunst und
künstlerisches Gewerbe. Winterthur, Switzerland. Periodical published by the Bund Schweizer Architekten.
37th year of publication. | | | Design. A Monthly Journal for Manufacturers and
Designers, London. Periodical published by the Council of Industrial Design,
Tilbury House. Publication begun January 1949. | | | Dansk Kunsthaandvaerk. Nyt tidsskrift for kunstindustri.
Copenhagen. Periodical. 23rd year of publication. | | | Tvar Prague. Periodical published by the Central Office of Popular and
Art Manufacture, Praha II, Národná 36. 10 issues yearly,
English summaries. 3rd year of publication. |
THEORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF
MODERN DESIGN | | Pevsner Nikolaus. Pioneers of Modern Design from William
Morris to Walter Gropius. 151 p. illus. New York, The
Museum of Modern Art, 1949. Revised edition of 1936 publication. | | | New York. Museum of Modern Art. Bauhaus 1919-1928.
Edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, Ise Gropius.
224 p. illus. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. | | | Read Herbert. Art and Industry, the Principles of Indus-
trial Design. 143 p. illus. London, Faber & Faber, 1934. | | | Kepes Gyorgy. Language of Vision. 228 p. illus. Chicago,
Paul Theobald, 1944. Prefaces by S. Giedion and S. I. Hayakawa. | | | Moholy-Nagy László. Vision in Motion. 371 p. illus. Chi-
cago, Paul Theobald, 1947. | | | Moholy-Nagy László. The New Vision . . . and Abstract of
an Artist. 80 p. illus. New York, Wittenborn, 1946. (Docu-
ments of Modern Art) Third revised edition of 1928 text issued in 1929 as "Von
Material zu Architektur." | | | Giedion Sigfried. Space, Time and Architecture, the Growth
of a new Tradition. 665 p. illus. Cambridge, Harvard Univer-
sity Press, 1949. Revised edition of 1941 publication. | | | Giedion Sigfried, Mechanization Takes Command, a con-
tribution to anonymous history. 743 p. illus. New York,
Oxford University Press, 1948. | | | Murrford Lewis Sticks and Stones, A Study of American
Architecture & Civilization. 238 p. New York, W. W.
Norton, 1924. | | | Mumford Lewis. Technics and Civilization. 495 p. illus.
New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1934. |
ARCHITECTURAL SOURCES OF MODERN DESIGN | | Wright Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. 561 p. illus. New
York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. | | | Sullivan Louis H. Kindergarten Chats (Revised 1918) and
Other Writings. 252 p. illus. New York, Wittenborn,
Schultz, Inc., 1947. (Documents of Modern Art) | | | Le Corbusier ( C. E. Jeanneret-Gris). Towards a New
Architecture. 289 p. illus. New York, Payson & Clarke, 1927. | | | New York, Museum of Modern Art. Mies van der Rohe,
by Philip C. Johnson. 207 p. illus. New York, The Museum
of Modern Art, 1947. | | | New York. Museum of Modern Art. Aalto, Architecture
and Furniture. 48 p. illus. New York, The Museum of
Modern Art, 1938. Texts by S. Breines and A. L. Kocher. | -32- | |
