STUDENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN: 1958

A Student Publication of the School of Design, North Carolina State College

Experience and Theory in the Pirelli Building by Prof. Dr. Ing. Arturo Danusso; Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Mark Tobey, Emerson Woelffer, and C. S. Price

Eugene Lowry, Henry Menzies [Editors]: STUDENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN. Raleigh, NC: A Student Publication of the School of Design, North Carolina State College, Volume 8, number 2, Summer 1958. First edition. Square quarto. Thick illustrated wrappers. 40 pp. Illustrated articles with period correct design and typography. Wrappers lightly rubbed with several faint creases to the rear panel, but a very good or better copy. 

8.5 x 8.5 softcover publication with 40 pages of nicely designed and illustrated content from the School of Design at North Carolina State College, circa 1958. 

Contents:

• The Development of Model Research in Italy: Prof. Dr. Ing. Guido Oberti
• Experience and Theory in Builder’s Technics: Prof. Dr. Ing. Arturo Danusso. Four-page essay on the engineering of the Pirelli Building in Milan. In 1950, Alberto Pirelli, president and owner of the giant Pirelli tyre company, ordered that a skyscraper be built in the area where the corporation's first factory was located in the 19th century. The project was developed by architect Gio Ponti, with the assistance of Pier Luigi Nervi and Arturo Danusso. Construction of the tower began in 1956 when Italy was experiencing an economic boom. The tower was to be surrounded by low lying buildings on a pentagonal plot of land. Upon its completion in 1958, it became a symbol not only of Milan, but also of the economic recovery of Italy after the devastation of World War II.
• The Aesthetics of Plenty: James Marston Fitch
• The Gift of Dr. William R. Valentiner: paintings by Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Mark Tobey, Emerson Woelffer, and C. S. Price.
• Parapyschology: An Associate Researcher
• The New Landscape: Sylvia Crowe
• Excerpts: Auguste Rodin

From the North Carolina State University College of Design website: "The Student Publication began as a tribute to Matthew Nowicki after his untimely death in 1950 at the age of 40. His influence and inspiration as head of the Department of Architecture inspired the students to create The Student Publication in his honor, and so the first issue focused on Nowicki’s contributions to the College, the University and the field. Through the process, students realized the potential and importance of such a publication and collection of voices, that they continued the effort, focusing on timely and important issues in the field and inviting some of the most important and influential designers of the day to contribute letters, projects and articles. Such luminaries included Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Buckminster Fuller and Richard Saul Wurman."

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