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L.A. Modern

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847830675
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book L.A. Modern written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century, this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style, architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their own individual styles with a rare sensitivity to site, landscape, and human scale. This brand of modernism, blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors, has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney. Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles, from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others, L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.

Making L.A. Modern

Author : Michael Boyd
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847861538
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Making L.A. Modern written by Michael Boyd and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive volume on Craig Ellwood, a visionary architect, designer, and tastemaker often called the “California Mies van der Rohe.” Craig Ellwood, “the Cary Grant of architecture,” was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for his exquisitely designed, minimalist structures as he was for his exuberant lifestyle. This book celebrates and explores the glamour of Ellwood’s work, life, myth, and career. Through photographs, primarily of the iconic houses he designed in Southern California during the 1950s and ’60s, we see a life of refined decadence, expressed through gorgeous architecture, fast cars, beautiful women, Hollywood style, palm trees, swimming pools, and minimalist design—all in the context of the Southern California postwar building boom. This volume will appeal to design junkies, architecture buffs, students of modernism, and anyone interested in problem-solving and elegant solutions.

To Live and Dine in L.A

Author : Josh Kun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781626400283
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book To Live and Dine in L.A written by Josh Kun and published by . This book was released on 2015-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Live and Dine in L.A. is a project of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, based On The Menu Collection of The Los Angeles Public Library. This lavish pictorial work celebrates the rich - and untold - history of restaurants and food in the City of Angels"--

Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles

Author : John Eng
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764338656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles written by John Eng and published by Schiffer Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world–quite literally–needed to be rebuilt. It was during this time that modern ideas led the way to the future. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like and learn why modern houses still remain relevant today as new homeowners are drawn to their aesthetic and original homeowners continue to enjoy them more than half a century later. This engaging guide features 100+ images of interiors, exteriors, and decor and more than 40 archival images and floor plans.

Los Angeles and the Automobile

Author : Scott L. Bottles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520057951
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Los Angeles and the Automobile written by Scott L. Bottles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.

Life à la Henri

Author : Henri Charpentier
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789121442
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Life à la Henri written by Henri Charpentier and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life à la Henri is the delightful memoir-with-recipes of Henri Charpentier, the world’s first celebrity chef. First published in 1934, the book traces Henri’s career from his days as a scrap of a bellboy on the French Riviera and a quick-witted apprentice in a three-star kitchen (when he invented crêpe suzette) to his sailing for New York to open his renowned namesake restaurants that introduced many to the glories of haute cuisine. Life à la Henri is a memorable portrait of a top-flight restaurant kitchen, and is food writing of surpassing charm and taste. “In this book of memories...[Henri] Charpentier mingles skilfully and delightfully the philosophy of life and the art of cooking, reminiscences and recipes.”—The New York Times Book Review "unique blend of success story, food history, romance, and sheer magic"—Kirkus Reviews "thoroughly old-school”—Publishers Weekly "devastating Gallic charm"—Los Angeles Magazine

City of Dreams

Author : Jerald Podair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192790
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book City of Dreams written by Jerald Podair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark, he ignited a bitter half-decade dispute over the future of a rapidly changing city. For the first time, City of Dreams tells the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped create modern Los Angeles. In a vivid narrative, Jerald Podair tells how the city was convulsed over whether, where, and how to build the stadium. Eventually, it was built on publicly owned land from which the city had uprooted a Mexican American community, raising questions about the relationship between private profit and “public purpose.” Indeed, the battle over Dodger Stadium crystallized issues with profound implications for all American cities. Filled with colorful stories, City of Dreams will fascinate anyone who is interested in the history of the Dodgers, baseball, Los Angeles, and the modern American city.

Dear Los Angeles

Author : David Kipen
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812993985
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Dear Los Angeles written by David Kipen and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through. “Los Angeles is refracted in all its irreducible, unexplainable glory.”—Los Angeles Times The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate symbol of the American Dream. David Kipen, a cultural historian and avid scholar of Los Angeles, has scoured libraries, archives, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of a truly unique city. From the Spanish missionary expeditions in the early 1500s to the Golden Age of Hollywood to the strange new world of social media, this collection is a slice of life in L.A. through the years. The pieces are arranged by date—January 1st to December 31st—featuring selections from different decades and centuries. What emerges is a vivid tapestry of insights, personal discoveries, and wry observations that together distill the essence of the city. As sprawling and magical as the city itself, Dear Los Angeles is a fascinating, must-have collection for everyone in, from, or touched by Southern California. With excerpts from the writing of Ray Bradbury • Edgar Rice Burroughs • Octavia E. Butler • Italo Calvino • Winston Churchill • Noël Coward • Simone De Beauvoir • James Dean • T. S. Eliot • William Faulkner • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Richard Feynman • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Allen Ginsberg • Dashiell Hammett • Charlton Heston • Zora Neale Hurston • Christopher Isherwood • John Lennon • H. L. Mencken • Anaïs Nin • Sylvia Plath • Ronald Reagan • Joan Rivers • James Thurber • Dalton Trumbo • Evelyn Waugh • Tennessee Williams • P. G. Wodehouse • and many more Advance praise for Dear Los Angeles “This book’s a brilliant constellation, spread out over a few centuries and five thousand square miles. Each tiny entry pins the reality of the great unreal city of Angels to a moment in human time—moments enthralled, appalled, jubilant, suffering, gossiping or bragging—and it turns out, there’s no better way to paint a picture of the place.”—Jonathan Lethem “[A] scintillating collection of letters and diary entries . . . an engrossing trove of colorful, witty insights.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

City of Ambition

Author : Mason B Williams
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 0393066916
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book City of Ambition written by Mason B Williams and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”—shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins—sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story.

Modern Language Teaching

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Language Teaching written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La Technique

Author : Jacques Pepin
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517324196
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book La Technique written by Jacques Pepin and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1986-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogues nearly two hundred of the most useful culinary techniques, providing detailed, step-by-step descriptions and illustrations of basic skills and procedures in kitchen and dining room

El Techo de la Ballena

Author : María C. Gaztambide
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683400763
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book El Techo de la Ballena written by María C. Gaztambide and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the 1960s Caracas-based art collective El Techo de la Ballena (The Roof of the Whale) was called “subversive” and “art terrorism” and seen as a threat to Venezuela’s national image as an emerging industrial power. This volume details the historical and social contexts that shaped the collective, exploring how its anti-art aesthetic highlighted the shortcomings of the country’s newfound oil wealth and transition to democracy. Every element used by these radicalized artists in their avant-garde exhibitions—from Informalist canvases to torn book pages and kitsch objects to cattle carcasses and scatological content—issued a critique of Venezuela’s petroleum-driven capitalism and the profound inequality left in its wake. Embracing chaos, the artists contradicted the country’s politically sanctioned view of modernity, which championed constant progress in the visual arts and favored geometric abstraction and kinetic art. El Techo’s was a backward—a retrograde—modernity, argues María Gaztambide, discussing how its artists turned against the norm by incorporating anachronistic postures, primeval symbols, colonial Latin American print culture, and “guerilla” art tactics. Artists in this group tested limits to provoke what they saw as a numbed local public through shocking displays of criticism and frustration. Today, as Venezuela undergoes another dramatic series of sociopolitical changes, El Techo de la Ballena serves as a reminder of the power of art in resisting the status quo and effecting change in society.

Modern Geography ... The Astronomical Introduction by M. La Croix ... Translated by John Pond ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Etc

Author : John Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Modern Geography ... The Astronomical Introduction by M. La Croix ... Translated by John Pond ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Etc written by John Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

La Nijinska

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197603904
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book La Nijinska written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer, shedding new light on the modern history of ballet, and recuperating the memory of lost works and forgotten artists, all while revealing the sexism that still confronts women choreographers in the ballet world.

François Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality

Author : Siep Stuurman
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780674011854
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book François Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality written by Siep Stuurman and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His writings challenging male supremacy and advocating gender and racial equality are the most radically egalitarian texts to appear in Europe before the French revolution."

Julius Shulman Los Angeles

Author : Sam Lubell
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847847640
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Julius Shulman Los Angeles written by Sam Lubell and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of Julius Shulman's extraordinary images of his adopted city, ranging from residential, commercial, shops, factories, and street life of Los Angeles, a true portrait of a modern metropolis. The book will show the photographs chronologically from 1934, when Shulman shot Richard Neutra's Sten House on spec, to 1972, when Los Angeles comes into its own as a world metropolis. About 250 images of various aspects of the city life are represented, from residential to commercial, shops, offices, churches, schools, and street life.

The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: