Dear ARLIS,

The Harvard Graduate School of Design Loeb Library is pleased to announce that TASK magazine, the student journal published by architecture students in Cambridge, Massachusetts between 1941 and 1944 (and an additional single postwar issue in 1948), now digitized in 2013 by the Frances Loeb Library from its Special Collections holdings, is available online: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:GSD.loeb:10140534. It is also linked directly from the HOLLIS record.

 

The first issue was published by students from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Smith College. Although only a few issues were published, it was a significant platform for the discussion of architecture, urban planning, and design during the 1940s. Global in reach, the journal includes writings on housing and planning in the United States, England, China, and Russia. The journal also includes writings on education, industrial design, prefabrication, defense housing, regional planning, postwar reconstruction, and metropolitan life. Among the advisors of the editorial board were Catherine Bauer, Josep Lluís Sert, and Christopher Tunnard.

 

Ann Whiteside

 

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