THE PUBLISHERS’ PAGE
As announced in the March 20th issue of this journal, our next issue, that of April 20th, will be confined to the presentation of the Field Estate at Lloyd’s Neck, Huntington, Long Island. To adequately cover the architectural features of this private development of over 2, 000 acres and more than twenty buildings, it has been found necessary to increase the number of editorial pages beyond that comprising a regular issue. This has accordingly been done, and we are confident that our readers will find this issue one of unusual value and worthy of preservation for reference purposes. In preparing
this issue of The American Architect for publication, the office of John Russell Pope, architects of the Field Estate, has given our editorial department full co-operation and placed at our disposal all office documents and records that might be of value to other architects suddenly faced with a problem of such magnitude as that under consideration.
Estates of this type are not of the average run of architectural practice. The individual buildings, that compose the living and operating facilities, may not offer a problem that is out of the ordinary so much as the office and field organization required to carry forward the multitudinous details of designing and constructing a residential estate, necessarily developed and built at one time. Somewhat over three years were required to clear the heavily wooded tract for road, building sites, and agricultural purposes; to install service utilities; erect the various buildings; and complete the landscaping. Daniel P. Higgins of the office of John Russell Pope has prepared an interesting article covering “the problem. ” Numerous excellent photographs will be utilized to demonstrate the solution of this problem. A. C. Frank of the architects’ office, project manager of the Field Estate work, has written a valuable article describing the organization required to “run” a construction job of this character. Mr. Frank will also touch upon the service utility features of the estate and the analysis and solution of many individual problems that enter into the satisfactory conclusion of this type of residential development.
The publishers of this journal greatly appreciate the opportunity afforded through being given exclusive permission by Marshall Field to present this estate for the benefit of the architectural profession
through the medium of The AMERICAN ARCHI TECT. The confidence thus expressed we shall endeavor to justify.
Many of our readers look forward to the sketches and entertaining articles by Samuel Chamberlain that are regularly presented in our issues of the 20th of the month. Owing to the fact that the Field Estate will require the use of all the editorial pages in the April 20, 1928, issue of this journal, the publication of Mr. Chamberlain’s article, that would normally appear in that issue, will be deferred until our issue of May 5th. Mr. Chamberlain has forwarded to us a series of sketches of fountains in Viterbo, Italy, that are done in his usual inimitable style. The sketches and the article accompanying them will lose no interest through the slight delay in publication.
Universities and colleges throughout the country have in recent years found it necessary to embark upon extensive building programs. Perhaps few of these developments have equal architectural interest to that which has been done and is now being done at Yale University. We feel fortunate in being able to illustrate in this issue the recently completed William L. Harkness Hall, at Yale University, designed by Delano & Aldrich, architects.
In the May issue of House and Garden there will appear an advertisement setting forth the advantages of architectural service. This advertisement is being inserted by The AMERICAN ARCHITECT as concrete evidence of our desire to assist the architectural profession in every way within its power. The advertisement has been prepared with the idea of not only extending the more general use of the architect’s service, through emphasizing the value of such service, but also to clarify in the mind of the layman the architect’s position and relation to his client as an expert advisor in planning, designing
and construction. The AMERICAN ARCHITECT has ever sought to serve the architectural profession with every means at its command. In the present instance, which is more or less of an experiment, it has even gone outside of its own pages in a sincere attempt to be of practical service. We shall welcome comments upon this procedure and any evidence that will tend to show the value or weakness of the advertisement as inserted in a magazine widely read by those who should avail themselves of architectural service.
Please do us a favor. If your magazine does not come regularly on time, drop us a postcard or a letter. Address us—501 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
As announced in the March 20th issue of this journal, our next issue, that of April 20th, will be confined to the presentation of the Field Estate at Lloyd’s Neck, Huntington, Long Island. To adequately cover the architectural features of this private development of over 2, 000 acres and more than twenty buildings, it has been found necessary to increase the number of editorial pages beyond that comprising a regular issue. This has accordingly been done, and we are confident that our readers will find this issue one of unusual value and worthy of preservation for reference purposes. In preparing
this issue of The American Architect for publication, the office of John Russell Pope, architects of the Field Estate, has given our editorial department full co-operation and placed at our disposal all office documents and records that might be of value to other architects suddenly faced with a problem of such magnitude as that under consideration.
Estates of this type are not of the average run of architectural practice. The individual buildings, that compose the living and operating facilities, may not offer a problem that is out of the ordinary so much as the office and field organization required to carry forward the multitudinous details of designing and constructing a residential estate, necessarily developed and built at one time. Somewhat over three years were required to clear the heavily wooded tract for road, building sites, and agricultural purposes; to install service utilities; erect the various buildings; and complete the landscaping. Daniel P. Higgins of the office of John Russell Pope has prepared an interesting article covering “the problem. ” Numerous excellent photographs will be utilized to demonstrate the solution of this problem. A. C. Frank of the architects’ office, project manager of the Field Estate work, has written a valuable article describing the organization required to “run” a construction job of this character. Mr. Frank will also touch upon the service utility features of the estate and the analysis and solution of many individual problems that enter into the satisfactory conclusion of this type of residential development.
The publishers of this journal greatly appreciate the opportunity afforded through being given exclusive permission by Marshall Field to present this estate for the benefit of the architectural profession
through the medium of The AMERICAN ARCHI TECT. The confidence thus expressed we shall endeavor to justify.
Many of our readers look forward to the sketches and entertaining articles by Samuel Chamberlain that are regularly presented in our issues of the 20th of the month. Owing to the fact that the Field Estate will require the use of all the editorial pages in the April 20, 1928, issue of this journal, the publication of Mr. Chamberlain’s article, that would normally appear in that issue, will be deferred until our issue of May 5th. Mr. Chamberlain has forwarded to us a series of sketches of fountains in Viterbo, Italy, that are done in his usual inimitable style. The sketches and the article accompanying them will lose no interest through the slight delay in publication.
Universities and colleges throughout the country have in recent years found it necessary to embark upon extensive building programs. Perhaps few of these developments have equal architectural interest to that which has been done and is now being done at Yale University. We feel fortunate in being able to illustrate in this issue the recently completed William L. Harkness Hall, at Yale University, designed by Delano & Aldrich, architects.
In the May issue of House and Garden there will appear an advertisement setting forth the advantages of architectural service. This advertisement is being inserted by The AMERICAN ARCHITECT as concrete evidence of our desire to assist the architectural profession in every way within its power. The advertisement has been prepared with the idea of not only extending the more general use of the architect’s service, through emphasizing the value of such service, but also to clarify in the mind of the layman the architect’s position and relation to his client as an expert advisor in planning, designing
and construction. The AMERICAN ARCHITECT has ever sought to serve the architectural profession with every means at its command. In the present instance, which is more or less of an experiment, it has even gone outside of its own pages in a sincere attempt to be of practical service. We shall welcome comments upon this procedure and any evidence that will tend to show the value or weakness of the advertisement as inserted in a magazine widely read by those who should avail themselves of architectural service.
Please do us a favor. If your magazine does not come regularly on time, drop us a postcard or a letter. Address us—501 Fifth Avenue, New York City.