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Edward Durell stone discusses how the Conger Goodyear House came to be and how its design took shape.

Let us not confuse outward show, however impressive, with an essential truth which is still indistinct in the whirlpool of an epoch in the full tide of evolution.

Architectural Record has asked me to state both what troubles me most and what pleases me most in the status of architecture in the United States.

I have been asked by The Architectural Record to write a few words about my new task as professor in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Leopald Eidlitz had more of a lasting impact through his writings than through his architecture.

Mr. Burnham used to trace, to the World's Fair at Chicago the beginning of the American city-planning: His own experiences with that enterprise taught him the lesson that cooperation among artists was absolutely essential in order to produce a really great result.

In truth, one who visits the Blackwell's Island and the Manhattan Bridges finds great matter for wonder and admiration at the enormous artistic advance they show upon the older bridges across the East River.

The American people had and largely still have a natural environment which is unsurpassed in both scale and variety. But only within the last decade or so have they begun to view it as anything other than an inexhaustible storehouse of material wealth-of minerals, timbers, and furs.

The irreducible requisite of any successful planning is that the forms developed will direct the flow of energy in the most economic and productive pattern.