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Author : Sam Watters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Houses of Los Angeles: 1920-1935 written by Sam Watters and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 600 archival photographs, house and landscape plans
Author : Sam Watters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Houses of Los Angeles: 1885 - 1919, 1920-1935 written by Sam Watters and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Friedman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312897
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The American Idea of Home written by Bernard Friedman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirty leaders in American architecture discuss the most significant issues in the field today. “Home is an idea,” Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, “a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst.” In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a constellation of ideas relating to housing and home. The interviewees include Pritzker Prize winners Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, and Robert Venturi; Pulitzer Prize winners Paul Goldberger and Tracy Kidder; American Institute of Architects head Robert Ivy; and legendary architects such as Denise Scott Brown, Charles Gwathmey, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern. The American idea of home and the many types of housing that embody it launch lively, wide-ranging conversations about some of the most vital and important issues in architecture today. The topics that Friedman and his interviewees discuss illuminate five overarching themes: the functions and meanings of home; history, tradition, and change in residential architecture; activism, sustainability, and the environment; cities, suburbs, and regions; and technology, innovation, and materials. Friedman frames the interviews with an extended introduction that highlights these themes and helps readers appreciate the common concerns that underlie projects as disparate as Katrina cottages and Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian houses. Readers will come away from these thought-provoking interviews with an enhanced awareness of the “under the hood” kinds of design decisions that fundamentally shape our ideas of home and the dwellings in which we live.
Author : Liz Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143132903
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Twilight Man written by Liz Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twilight Man is biography, romance, and nonfiction mystery, carrying with it the bite of fiction." -- Los Angeles Review of Books “In Twilight Man, Liz Brown uncovers a noir fairytale, a new glimpse into the opulent Gilded Age empire of the Clark family.” —Bill Dedman, co-author of The New York Times bestseller Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune. In the booming 1920s, William Andrews Clark Jr. was one of the richest, most respected men in Los Angeles. The son of the mining tycoon known as "The Copper King of Montana," Clark launched the Los Angeles Philharmonic and helped create the Hollywood Bowl. He was also a man with secrets, including a lover named Harrison Post. A former salesclerk, Post enjoyed a lavish existence among Hollywood elites, but the men's money--and their homosexuality--made them targets, for the district attorney, their employees and, in Post's case, his own family. When Clark died suddenly, Harrison Post inherited a substantial fortune--and a wealth of trouble. From Prohibition-era Hollywood to Nazi prison camps to Mexico City nightclubs, Twilight Man tells the story of an illicit love and the battle over a family estate that would destroy one man's life. Harrison Post was forgotten for decades, but after a chance encounter with his portrait, Liz Brown, Clark's great-grandniece, set out to learn his story. Twilight Man is more than just a biography. It is an exploration of how families shape their own legacies, and the lengths they will go in order to do so.
Author : Peter James Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190256516
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book American Arcadia written by Peter James Holliday and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Arcadia explores the innumerable ways Californians shaped their visual and social culture using models and ideals from the classical tradition"--
Author : Gladys Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780926494473
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (944 download)
Download or read book An Elegant Wilderness written by Gladys Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855 - 1935 by Gladys Montgomery, recounts the story of the private retreats of the Gilded age industrial rich who traveled north from New York City to experience wilderness. Light
Author : Marc Appleton
Publisher : Master Architects of Southern
ISBN 13 : 9780999666418
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Roland E. Coate written by Marc Appleton and published by Master Architects of Southern. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In collaboration with Angel City Press, Santa Monica, California"--Colophon.
Author : Sam Watters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780926494152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Gardens for a Beautiful America 1895-1935 written by Sam Watters and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the opening of the 20th century, Americans looked out their windows and saw a landscape that had radically changed since their countryside childhoods. Since the close of the Civil War, the nation had become a land of industrial cities. Smokestacks, bl
Author : R. Stephen Sennott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9781579584351
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture written by R. Stephen Sennott and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2004 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.
Author : Andrew Romano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788469767634
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (676 download)
Download or read book The Walker House - RM Schindler written by Andrew Romano and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Walker House, RM Schindler is the first in a series of architecture books related to inspirational houses. It takes us to Los Angeles, the adopted home of Austrian-born American architect, RM Schindler, and tells the story of the Walker House and how it came into the possession of its current owner, journalist and modernist architecture and design geek, Andrew Romano. The 80-page hardbound book features interior photography by longtime Apartamento contributor, Ye Rin Mok, texts by Andrew Romano, and archival imagery of the Walker House, courtesy of the private collection of Andrew Romano and the University of Santa Barbara California.
Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1884964931
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Makers of 20th-century Modern Architecture written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture including Wright, Eisenman, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. It describes the milieu in which they practiced their art and directs readers to information on the life and creative activities of these founding architects and their disciples. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Each profile is completed by a comprehensive bibliography.
Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847832368
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright written by Kathryn Smith and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright presents a stunning overview of the work of this towering American genius, encompassing the entirety of Wright’s long and extraordinarily prolific career. From his earliest work, such as the Home and Studio in Oak Park, IL, of 1889, to the wonderfully evocative textile block houses of Los Angeles of the mid-1920s, to such seminal masterpieces as Fallingwater, of 1935, in the Pennsylvania wilderness, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, of 1956, in New York, the book offers an extraordinarily abundant trove of architectural riches. Featuring more than a hundred discrete works, from the well known to the obscure, expertly discussed in the text of highly respected Wright scholar Kathryn Smith, Frank Lloyd Wright weaves a gorgeous tapestry that will engage the mind and delight the eye.
Author : Ethel B. Power
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145476
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Smaller Houses of the 1920s written by Ethel B. Power and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a peak era in American domestic architecture comes this survey of homes from across the country. Its wealth of styles features both new American designs and traditional European-inspired buildings of wood, stucco, concrete, brick, and stone. The 130 captioned black-and-white illustrations and 55 floor plans offer external and internal views for a full perspective on the houses' architectural ingenuity and originality. One of the most striking features of these homes is their extreme variety in terms of efficient design. The plans combine a limited number of units into a workable whole, without sacrifice of convenience or economy. Blending practicality and charm, these imaginative designs will inspire professional architects, amateur builders, and anyone interested in the ways American architects adapted Old World designs and added elements of native style to produce a new and vibrant home building idiom.
Author : Alan Weintraub
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810939967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Lloyd Wright written by Alan Weintraub and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1998-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeously illustrated with new color photographs, this book offers the first definitive look at the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr., (1890-1978), known as Lloyd Wright, who had a long, successful but generally overlooked career in Southern California. 595 illustrations, 428 in color.
Author : Max Podemski
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807007781
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Paradise of Small Houses written by Max Podemski and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career in and around these buildings. Deftly combining his years of experience with extensive research, Podemski walks the reader through the history of our dwelling spaces—and offers a blueprint for how time-tested urban planning models can help us build the homes the United States so desperately needs. In A Paradise of Small Houses, Podemski charts how these dwellings have evolved over the centuries according to the geography, climate, population, and culture of each city. He introduces the reader to styles like Chicago’s prefabricated workers cottages and LA’s car-friendly dingbats, illuminating the human stories behind each city’s iconic housing type. Through it all, Podemski interrogates the American values that have equated home ownership with success and led to the US housing crisis, asking, “How can we look to the past to build the homes, neighborhoods, and cities of the future that our communities deserve?”
Author : Neil Spiller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119838355
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)
Download or read book California Dreaming written by Neil Spiller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California has historically provided a fertile breeding ground for radical modes of architectural thinking, practice and building, which from the 1920s onwards was sparked by the presence of eminent émigré architects. It was also central to the birth of ‘cool’ mid-century Modernism – all in parallel with the intense concentration of design and experimentation in the film, aerospace and tech industries. This AD issue explores the influential formal tropes generated in the nexus between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as well as the thriving theoretical preoccupations that have brought California's architects global attention. Between Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, this unique context has nurtured and become the platform for those who not only build buildings around the world, but have also founded and directed schools and educated emergent generations of architects. Contributors: Frances Anderton, Jasmine Benyamin, Blaine Brownell, Courtney Coffman, Heather Flood and Aaron Gensler, David Freeland and Brennan Buck, Craig Hodgetts, Max Kuo, Eva Menuhin, Nicole Meyer, Jill Stoner, and Grace Mitchell Tada. Featured architects: Atelier Manferdini, Ball-Nogues Studio, Faulders Studio, FreelandBuck, Hood Design Studio, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Preliminary Research Office, Stereobot, and Synthesis Design + Architecture.
Author : Jocelyn Gibbs
Publisher : Rizzoli
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House written by Jocelyn Gibbs and published by Rizzoli. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held Feb. 26-June 17, 2012 at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, as part of "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an precedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene."
