TY - BOOK ED - Architectural Record TI - 82 distinctive houses from Architectural Record: Distinctive houses from Architectural Record U1 - 728 ARC PY - 1952/// CY - New York PB - F.W. Dodge Corporation KW - American architecture - 20th century - Residential houses KW - Architect-designed buildings KW - Architectural drawings KW - Architecture, Domestic - Designs and plans - U.S.A KW - Architecture, Domestic - United States KW - Single-family houses - Design and plans - U.S.A N2 - This collection severs useful purpose by bringing together as it does so mnay significant examples of good modern work.In this collection of houses selected for publication in Architectural Record over the past five years. These houses show a greater appreciation by contemporary architects of the hospitality of the out-of-doors. These houses are more direct, simple and natural. There is much use of local wood an dmasonry, with little ornamentation. Space is lightly divided, with rooms seprated from gardens, tress and lawns by thin panels of galss. There is greater flexibility of of plan and use - and escape from the closed box and restricting tradition ER -