Cranston Jones; Author of Books on Architecture

Cranston Jones, 73, who worked for Time and People magazines and produced several books on architecture. He worked on the staff of Time from 1945 to 1969, serving as a correspondent in San Francisco, London and Paris and as bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro. He later worked as an editor-in-chief of Travel and Leisure magazine and senior editor of People. His books include “Architecture Today and Tomorrow,” “Homes of the American Presidents,” and “Marcel Breuer: Buildings and Projects, 1921-1961.” On June 1 in New York of cancer of the esophagus.