A HOUSE FOR MABEL & HENRY L. KAMPHOEFNER

KAMPHOEFNER, Henry L.  A HOUSE FOR MABEL & HENRY L. KAMPHOEFNER.

(Norman, Oklahoma): N.P., 1942. 4to. Stiff black covers, spiral bound. Title page, 3 leaves of drawings and 10 silver prints bound in.

Rare item not listed on OCLC, and may be the only copy.  A spiral bound volume consisting of a title page, a plan, a section and a detailed plate and ten bleed-to-the-margin silver prints of Kamphoefner's own house in Norman, Oklahoma.  The contractor was Floyd Farmer and the photographer was Trueman Pouncy.  Henry Leveke Kamphoefner (1907-1990) was a champion of Modernist architecture and is most well-known for bringing modern architecture to the southern United States and North Carolina in particular, as the first Dean of the School (now College) of Design at North Carolina State University in 1948.  When he moved to North Carolina State College, he brought several colleagues and students from the University of Oklahoma with him, including George Matsumoto and Terry Waugh.  He created strict admissions policies and instituted a distinguished visitors program, which brought in architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright to lecture at the school.  Kamphoefner was a modernist architect and so were his colleagues.  This set of plans were for his house in Norman, Oklahoma where he was professor of architecture from 1938 to 1948.  Its designs betray the unmistakable influence of Frank Lloyd Wright.  Bottom inch of spiral binding broken away, else very good.

 

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