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Architecture Tours, L.A. Guidebook

Author : Laura Massino Smith
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764322976
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Tours, L.A. Guidebook written by Laura Massino Smith and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in a short amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building's history. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors all will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A. With 120 color photographs you will be able to identify more than 100 sites in the Hancock Park and Miracle Mile areas of L.A. that boast an eclectic mix of architectural styles. Starting in Koreatown at the Post-Modern "Chicken Shack," the author takes tour-goers on an incredible journey through the grand neighborhoods of Windsor Square and Hancock Park, to the Miracle Mile with its concentration of early-twentieth century buildings. Among popular Revival styles, you'll see Arts & Crafts, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco, Victorian, Programmatic, and Deconstructivist. Notable buildings designed by important architects Irving Gill, Wallace Neff, Gregory Ain, Rudolf M. Schindler, Scott Johnson, John and Donald Parkinson, Morgan, Walls and Clements, and more.

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook

Author : Laura Massino Smith
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764321221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook written by Laura Massino Smith and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is THE way to see Los Angeless rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the citys exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.s architectural marvels in a short amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each buildings history, and 66 color photographs are included to help you identify more than 60 sites. Welcome to Beverly Hills and West Hollywood! More than lavish homes and playgrounds for celebrities and millionaires, these cities boast a rich tapestry of diverse and exciting architecture. Tour these cities' vibrant histories as you drive down Santa Monica Blvd., Rodeo Drive, and the Sunset Strip. Here you'll find the Argyle Hotel, L.A.'s best-known example of Art Deco architecture; the Beverly Hills Hotel, built in the Spanish Mission style; the jet-age Union 76 gas station; southern California's only Art Nouveau building; examples of English Tudor, French Provincial, Storybook, Streamline Moderne, and Islamic-inspired architecture; as well as buildings designed by architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors all will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A.

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook

Author : Laura Massino Smith
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764321214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook written by Laura Massino Smith and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is THE way to see Los Angeless rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the citys exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.s architectural marvels in a short amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each buildings history, and 96 color photographs are included to help you identify more than 90 sites. HOLLYWOOD! Home of movies, celebrities, glamourand over a century of absolutely remarkable architecture. On this tour youll visit sites that span the citys intriguing history including a barn from Hollywoods humble beginnings as a bucolic retreat; original Victorian homes built at the turn of the 20th century; glamorous hotels and theaters from the Hollywood cinemas early days; and innovative designs by famed architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. The Hollywood Walk of Fame, the infamous Knickerbocker Hotel, the Hollyhock House, and the Egyptian and Chinese theaters are included alongside more obscure, yet fascinating, sites. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors all will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A.

Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook

Author : Laura Massino Smith
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764324833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook written by Laura Massino Smith and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 sites on this tour feature elegant hotels including the Wentworth, The Hotel Green, and the Vista Del Arroyo; brightly painted Victorian buildings; Arts & Crafts bungalows by prominent architects Greene & Greene, Alfred and Arthur Heineman, Louis Easton, and others; the mansions of "Millionaire's Row," Art Deco masterpieces, and Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, American Colonial, French Provincial, and English Tudor revival styles.

An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles

Author : Robert Winter
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423608936
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles written by Robert Winter and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles written by David Gebhard and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area.

Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA

Author : Sam Lubell
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714871950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: West Coast USA written by Sam Lubell and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide to one of the most fertile regions for the development of Mid-Century Modern architecture This handbook - the first ever to focus on the architectural wonders of the West Coast of the USA - provides visitors with an expertly curated list of 250 must-see destinations. Discover the most celebrated Modernist buildings, as well as hidden gems and virtually unknown examples - from the iconic Case Study houses to the glamour of Palm Springs' spectacular Modern desert structures. Much more than a travel guide, this book is a compelling record of one of the USA's most important architectural movements at a time when Mid-Century style has never been more popular. First-hand descriptions and colour photography transport readers into an era of unparalleled style, glamour, and optimism.

Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture

Author : John Hill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393733262
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Guide To Contemporary New York City Architecture written by John Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential walking companion to more than two hundred cutting-edge buildings constructed since the new millennium. The first decade of the 21st century has been a time of lively architectural production in New York City. A veritable building boom gripped the city, giving rise to a host of new—and architecturally cutting-edge—residential, corporate, institutional, academic, and commercial structures. With the boom now waning, this guidebook is perfectly timed to take stock of the city’s new skyline and map them all out, literally. This essential walking companion and guide features 200 of the most notable buildings and spaces constructed in New York’s five boroughs since the new millennium—The High Line, by James Corner Field Operations/Diller Scofidio + Renfro; 100 Eleventh Avenue, by Ateliers Jean Nouvel; Brooklyn Children’s Museum, by Rafael Vinoly Architects; 41 Cooper Square, by Morphosis; Poe Park Visitors Center, by Toshiko Mori Architect; and One Bryant Park, by Cook + Fox, to name just a few. Projects are grouped by neighborhood, allowing for easy, self-guided tours, with photos, maps, directions, and descriptions that highlight the most important aspects of each entry.

Buffalo Architecture

Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262520638
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Architecture written by Reyner Banham and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1981-10-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, whose work here is accompanied by over 250 illustrations and photographs. For its size, the city of Buffalo, New York, possesses a remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Adler and Sullivan's Prudential building, H. H. Richardson's massive Buffalo State Hospital, Richard Upjohn's Sr. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, five prairie houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and building by Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn, and the firms of McKim, Mead, and White, and Lockwood, Green and Company, among others. These structures by prominent "outsiders" served to spur the efforts of local architects, builders, and craftsmen, and all of them built within the context of the city-wide park and parkway system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition, the city and its environs exhibit representative works by more recent architects, among them Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Walther Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudloph, Minoru Yamasaki, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, capable of the challenge of evaluating its significance. Reyner Banham is one of the world's leading authorities on the theory and practice of architecture, and he has written extensively on design in the industrial age (and Buffalo's innovative manufacturing plants and grain elevators are important exemplars of such design). Charles Beveridge, whose essay covers the park and parkway system, is editor of the Olmsted papers at The American University. And Henry Russell Hitchcock is the dean of American architectural historians, and the organizer of a 1940 exhibition on Buffalo's built environment. Their essays are followed by seven sections that delineate the city's neighborhoods, each provided with a map, neighborhood history, and a full complement of photographs with descriptive building captions. An eighth section, "Lost Buffalo," describes demolished buildings, chief among them Wright's great Larkin administration building, while the remaining sections venture out of town, exploring Erie and Niagara Counties, other parts of Western New York, and southern Ontario.

Secret Stairs

Author : Charles Fleming
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
ISBN 13 : 1595809414
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Secret Stairs written by Charles Fleming and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781586853082
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles written by David Gebhard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Walking Chicago

Author : Ryan Ver Berkmoes
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899975682
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Walking Chicago written by Ryan Ver Berkmoes and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk the streets of Chicago and discover why the town that brought us Michael Jordan, Al Capone, and Oprah is anything but a "Second City." Chicago's diverse neighborhoods represent a true melting pot of America--from Little Italy to Greektown, Chinatown to New Chinatown, and La Villita to the Ukrainian Village. It's also the most walkable city in the country, with flat streets laid out in a sensible grid and 21 miles of stunning lakeshore. The 31 walks described here include trivia about architecture, political gossip, and the city's rich history, plus where to dine, get the best deep-dish pizza, visit world-class museums, have a drink, and shop.

Architectural Guide Venice

Author : Clemens F. Kusch
Publisher : Dom Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783869223629
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Guide Venice written by Clemens F. Kusch and published by Dom Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice has developed into a Mecca for international architects in the last few decades. The elite of contemporary architecture gather to celebrate the most prestigious architecture exhibition of our time at the Biennale in the shadows of St. Mark's Place, the Rialto Bridge and the Doge's Palace. It is all the more amazing that there is no current guide which covers the modern architecture of the largest open-air-museum in the world. This Architectural Guide is a ticket to a journey of discovery off the beaten tourist path through Venice after 1950. The boat trips and walks in the guide lead to new residential complexes and converted harbour sheds, to works by Carlo Scarpa, Tadao Ando and David Chipperfield. This very practical travel guide also examines controversial new projects like the flood control barriers or spectacular conversions like that of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi by Rem Koolhaas. In addition to never realised designs by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, the authors present all the Biennale pavilions from the last six decades.

A Burglar's Guide to the City

Author : Geoff Manaugh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374117268
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book A Burglar's Guide to the City written by Geoff Manaugh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city seen from a unique point of view: those who want to break in and loot its treasures At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked locks—and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and second-guessed. Never again will readers enter a bank without imagining the vault geometry, or visit a museum without plotting ways to bring their favorite painting home with them. From how to pick locks (and the tools required) to how to case a bank on the edge of town, readers will learn to spot the vulnerabilities, blind spots, and unseen openings that surround us all the time. This simultaneously allows us to view the city—from specific buildings and individual rooms to whole neighborhoods—through the privileged eyes of FBI investigating agents and security consultants, people dedicated both to solving and to preempting these attempts at devious entry. Full of absurd and marvelous stories of heists and capers, and offering a kind of criminal X-ray of the built environment, A Burglar's Guide to the City includes its own twist: the realization, hidden in its final chapter, that all along the book has been laying out the relevant details for plotting the perfect robbery, an ambitious and real proposal for robbing a bank in New York City.

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1626400555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles written by David Gebhard and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since its first publication in 1965, The Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles has explored every rich potency of the often relentless, but sometimes relenting L.A. cityscape. It now contains ninety-six sections organized in thirteen geographic chapters, boasting over 200 new additions to over thousands of entries cataloging every crease of Los Angeles County's metropolitan sheath"--

Architecture in Los Angeles

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Architecture in Los Angeles written by David Gebhard and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive guide over published to the man-made environment of Southern California. Contains hundreds of entries plus notes on city history, freeways, murals, and historic preservation. Also, a comprehensive bibliography, a photographic history of Los Angeles architecture, and an unequalled style glossary. David Gebhard and Robert Winter deftly pilot the enthusiast through one of the richest architectural regions in the world. With perception, understanding, and wit, the authors point out the classical monuments, the tacky copies, the sublime, and the bizarre. They lead us to the famous buildings and through the backstreets and alleys to find the unsung treasures. Loaded with maps and photographs."--Back cover.

The Architecture Lover's Guide to Paris

Author : Ruby Boukabou
Publisher : White Owl
ISBN 13 : 1526779986
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Architecture Lover's Guide to Paris written by Ruby Boukabou and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the architectural history behind Paris’s iconic building, famous landmarks, and charming neighborhoods with this handy visual guidebook. As you stroll the streets of Paris, this informative volume will help you unlock the secrets of the city’s beguiling beauty. Covering the major landmarks as well as dozens of lesser-known architectural gems, The Architecture Lover’s Guide to Paris puts essential history and fascinating details at your fingertips. Whether you are a Paris regular or visiting for the first time, this guide will help you understand how the city acquired its unique design palette. It also offers self-guided walking tours and suggestions of some of the best hotels, restaurants, cafés, churches, parks and more. You’ll discover ancient Roman baths, 17th century mansions, Art Deco theaters, and contemporary cultural complexes. You’ll also find out where to kick back, cocktail or mock-tail in hand, with a panoramic view over the capital. Written by Ruby Boukabou, author of The Art Lover’s Guide to Paris, this book is the perfect companion for anybody intrigued by the City of Light.