Pencil Points Reader: Selected Readings from a Journal for the Drafting Room, 1920-1943 Book

	Editors' preface
	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	1920	2
	Introductory : early issues of pencil points	4
	Prize award in pencil points cover design competition	5
	Notes on drafting	6
	The men who know	9
	1921	10
	What is ahead?	12
	Three stages of a rendering	13
	The study of architectural design : the beaux-arts method	17
	The broad view	21
	Finding out what the client wants	23
	Taking Hold	24
	The study of architectural design, the "analytique" or order problem, part V	26
	New Worlds	34
	Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola	35
	The B.A. in architecture	36
	The study of architectural design, class B. plan problem	37
	1922	46
	Twelfth-night in Mr. Goodhue's office	48
	Architectural training	55
	A vocabulary of atelier French	56
	Architecture and the community	63
	1923	64
	Specifications and personality	66
	Zoning and the envelope of the building	68
	The study of architectural design, the measured drawing	71
	Wanted	76
	The study of architectural design, the psychology of success	77
	The making of an architect	80
	How to bind your pencil points	81
	Visualization	84
	A complete body of architecture	85
	1924	86
	System?	88
	Architectural humanities	89
	The sketch problem, part IV	91
	Selling architecture	101
	Master draftsmen, V - Francis H. Bacon	102
	Ships as architecture	113
	The designer and the "practical man"	118
	English for students of architecture	119
	1925	120
	Living architecture	122
	Temperament	123
	Roman lettering from "exempla scripturae epigraphicae Latinae"	124
	Looking backward - and foreword	126
	Thumbnail sketches	127
	The architect's opportunity	137
	1926	138
	What do we owe each other?	140
	Giovanni-Battista Piranesi	142
	Draw, draw, draw!	151
	The genesis of measured drawings	152
	The relationship between the architect and the draftsman	160
	1927	162
	The city of the future ... steel, advertisement	164
	Planning methods for large institutions	165
	Planning methods for large institutions, II	166
	In the library	168
	Ramblings	171
	Architecture in motion pictures	174
	Architecture - the sick profession	184
	Strike a blow for the profession of architecture!	188
	Painless extraction	190
	Honesty	193
	1928	194
	Whittlings	196
	"Modern architecture," poem	200
	An experiment in architectural teaching	201
	1929	204
	Thoughts on modern, and other, ornament	206
	An exhibition of contemporary American art	218
	A champion wanted	221
	Here and there and this and that	222
	1930	224
	The architect, the draftsman, and 1930!	226
	Design in modern architecture, I - what is modern?	228
	Design in modern architecture, II - the modern plan	236
	Design in modern architecture, III - the city to tomorrow	244
	Design in modern architecture, IV - the modern interior	252
	The story of an architect	258
	Five disorders of architecture, cartoon	266
	Highlights of architecture, Pharaohs architect makes a mistake, cartoon	267
	The road from rome	268
	A small modern apartment	274
	Modernism	279
	1931	282
	Modernism is still in the making	284
	Impressions of modern architecture, 1 - the search for a direct manner of expression in design	286
	Don't come to New York for work	295
	The rockefeller building project in mid-town New York	296
	1932	298
	A decorative alphabet of initials	300
	The cultural advantages of unemployment	302
	Functional aesthetics and the social ideal	305
	Here and there and this and that, the spizzerinktum	309
	The approach to design	311
	Traveling double	314
	Traveling double, part 2	317
	"My Daxian," poem	320
	Christmas, 1932 model	321
	1933	322
	A new era?	324
	Here and there and this and that	325
	The whole extent of architecture in Cleveland at this time, cartoon	326
	Changes in architectural education	327
	Why not a central school?	329
	1934	330
	A half century of architecture, 1	332
	A half century of architecture, 2	336
	A half century of architecture, 3	340
	A half century of architecture, 4	344
	A half century of architecture, 5	348
	A half century of architecture, 6	351
	A half century of architecture, 7	354
	"The upper ground," I - the role of critic	357
	"The upper ground," II - U.S. architecture is a regional affair	361
	"The upper ground," IV - campus architecture : why gothic?	364
	"The upper ground," V - craftsmanship and composition	366
	"The upper ground," VI - wake up!!	370
	"The upper ground," VII - rehabilitate the profession	373
	H.A.B.S.	376
	1935	378
	To wish you all a happy New Year	380
	"The upper ground" - architectural education	381
	"The upper ground" - competitions	388
	"The upper ground" - modern and modernistic	392
	"The upper ground" - architectural journalism	398
	"The upper ground" - the architect and engineer	402
	Architects of Europe today 5 - LeCorbusier, France	406
	"The upper ground" - draftsmanship	412
	"The upper ground" - draftsmanship, II	416
	Architects of Europe today 7 - Van Der Rohe, Germany	420
	"The upper ground" - modernism	428
	"A conscientious artist," H. Van Buren Magonigle, F.A.I.A., 1867-1935	434
	1936	436
	To stimulate renovization	438
	Greenbelt planning	441
	Symposium upon dietetic design	461
	1937	466
	Architectural education	468
	The aesthetics of efficiency	470
	The "city of more abundant life"	472
	Craftsmanship	473
	The future of American design	475
	1938	480
	A contemporary American style	482
	Throw that legacy away	489
	Rome prize competition of 1938	491
	Of houses as places to live	493
	Competitions	501
	Pen and ink drawings of architectural monuments	510
	Bedlam and confusion	512
	1939	514
	Architecture, people and the Bauhaus	516
	Ah, jobless youth	524
	Built-in furniture, comparative details	526
	Challenge to the architect	534
	Is architecture going to the Bauhaus	540
	Architecture of the TVA	544
	Bridge rails, comparative details	556
	1940	558
	To the readers of pencil points	560
	Architecture in nineteen-sixty?	561
	The Washington National Airport	568
	1941	576
	Critical youth wields the flail : what the student expects/what the critic expects	578
	Critical youth wilds the flail : romance is not dead	579
	Yeast from the West	580
	Reaction under pressure	581
	1942	582
	We must look ahead	584
	The business of war has no future	586
	Portable housing	587
	Peace can gain from war's forced changes	596
	Battle of planning	609
	1943	610
	Today we produce to destroy, but tomorrow we will produce to build	612
	Furniture	616
	The invisible client	619
	Cities should be places to live in	620
	The architecture of the future, part 1 - postwar design : architecture of democracy	622
	The architecture of the future, part 2 - techniques, materials, and design	628
	Notes on patios	633
	The architecture of the future, part 3 - architectural practice after the war	636
	Who is American?	640
	The American house	641
	Index	643