4th Biennial HUD Awards for Design Excellence

Washington, DC: Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1971. Softcover. Good+ (Tight and mostly clean but looking a tad age-weary, although with no chips, tears or major flaws. Light soiling to covers, remnants of an old label on front cover, and very edges of lower front corner (cover/pages) lightly bent.). Oblong, bw illustrated wraps with light green lettering. 68 pp. with centerfold of color images; otherwise all bw illustrations. Includes an introduction about the awards and process and information about each member of the jury. Winning Urban Design (truncated) Concepts are described and pictured in detail (models and architectural diagrams): Detroit 1990, Jonathan New Town, Metro Center 1985, Reading Downtown East, Skyline Urban Renewal, and Yerba Buena Center. Winning Project Designs also are described and pictured in detail: Acorn Housing, Banneker Homes, Christopher Columbus School, Crown College Residence Halls, Diamond Heights Housing, Dwight Cooperative Townhouses, Medgar Evers Memorial Pool, Homestead Valley, Housing for the Elderly, Lower Grassy-Trace Branch Community Center, Marinview, Nine-G Cooperative, Northridge House, Dan Ryan Rapid Transit Station, Santa Venetia Oaks, 727 Front Avenue, Society Hill Historic Preservation, Sursum Corda, Two Charles Center, University of Vermont Married Student Housing, and Westbeth Artists Housing. Three special mention designs are included: Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan, Prototype Pedestrian Information Center, and Trunk Sewer. The centerfold is a color montage of all winners. (Inventory #: 147256)