NorCalMod

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811843539
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)

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Book Synopsis NorCalMod by : Pierluigi Serraino

Download or read book NorCalMod written by Pierluigi Serraino and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. NorCalMod dispels that notion in a copiously illustrated history showcasing extraordinary examples of its proud contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and Crafts buildings already existed?) pulling heavyweights such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Walter Gropius into the fray. Ultimately, that existing "Bay Region Style" would remain the area's architectural hallmark, but not before hundreds of important modernist projects, many still standing yet unjustly neglected today, had been established. The remarkable photos in this book open our eyes to a long-lost chapter in the history of California architecture and make NorCalMod a volume to be enjoyed by those interested in California history and style as well as by architecture students and professionals.

Forgotten Modern

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781586858582
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (585 download)

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Book Synopsis Forgotten Modern by : Alan Hess

Download or read book Forgotten Modern written by Alan Hess and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten Modern reveals the work of the innovative architects building in California from the 1930s to the 1970s. With groundbreaking and illuminating examples that will alter the way we think of California architecture, Hess and Weintraub focus on those that exemplify early mid-entury modern, variations on minimalism, and organic architecture. Though architects, historians, and the public alike have overlooked many of these superb architects from California's past century, this book intends to bring them back to our attention. All the architects included here are important in helping to show the breadth of design, that styles like Organic were more widely represented than we have previously realized, and that the fertile soil of California design fostered a wide spectrum of remarkable ideas-even if not all developed a significant school of followers. Chapters Include: A New Introduction to Midcentury California Searching For Midcentury Modern Variations on Wood and Steel Modernism Organic Architecture History Plus Modernism

J. R. Davidson

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Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035619379
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis J. R. Davidson by : Lilian Pfaff

Download or read book J. R. Davidson written by Lilian Pfaff and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Ralph Davidson is widely known as the architect of Thomas Mann’s house. Born 1889 in Berlin, Davidson left Germany in 1923 and emigrated to the USA. In Los Angeles, he designed some 150 projects, among them three houses for the experimental Case Study House Program. This long overdue publication is a comprehensive documentation of Davidson’s life and work, highlighting J.R.’s contribution to modernism in California in the 1930s and 1940s.

365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers

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Publisher : Rockport Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161058144X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers by : Laurel Saville

Download or read book 365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers written by Laurel Saville and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIn need of advice? Just want to sound off? Opening this volume is like grabbing lunch with a fellow designer to commiserate or celebrate and to learn the ins and outs of design. Good habits are found in every part of the design process, from promoting yourself well in order to land the client, to working with that client, to achieving the desired results on press.365 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers reveals solutions from a wide range of freelance designers whose years of experience have helped them find not only the most creative solutions for their clients' design needs, but also the most successful solutions. With a rich compilation of material from previous publications by the authors, this book also focuses on the daily habits that inspire these designers to stay creative and business strategies to be successful when working on your own.In its pages, noteworthy designers, both past and present, working in fields ranging from graphic design, fashion, architecture, typography, and industrial design sound off on every topic, ranging from deadlines, inspiration, competition, rules, respect, education, and handling criticism-all with a certain amount of irreverence. Their thoughts are boiled down into succinct, quotable quotes and one-liners that exemplify their character and demonstrate their philosophy on the world around them. Enjoy reading thought bites from everyone from Art Chantry, Margo Chase, Ed Fella, John C. Jay, Hideki Nakajima, Stefan Sagmeister, and Rudy VanderLans. The insights of these top designers will help guide other designers in both approach and execution of designs that succeed for their clients./div

Dwell

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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The Housing Project

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Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462701822
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Book Synopsis The Housing Project by : Gaia Caramellino

Download or read book The Housing Project written by Gaia Caramellino and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation – from domestic space to urban visions – this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth-century housing exhibits and explores the role of exhibitions in the codification of notions of domesticity, social models, policies, and architectural and urban discourse. At the intersection of housing studies and the history of exhibitions, The Housing Project not only offers a novel angle on architectural history but also enriches scholarly perspectives in urban studies, cultural and media history, design, and consumption studies. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Contributors: Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Gaia Caramellino, John Crosse, Stéphanie Dadour, Rika Devos, Fredie Floré, Johanna Hartmann, Erin McKellar, Laetitia Overney, José Parra-Martínez, Mathilde Simonsen Dahl, Eva Storgaard, Ludovica Vacirca

California Design, 1930-1965

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262298090
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis California Design, 1930-1965 by : Wendy Kaplan

Download or read book California Design, 1930-1965 written by Wendy Kaplan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design, generously illustrated. In 1951, designer Greta Magnusson Grossman observed that California design was “not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions.... It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way.” California design influenced the material culture of the entire country, in everything from architecture to fashion. This generously illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design. It begins by tracing the origins of a distinctively California modernism in the 1930s by such European émigrés as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Kem Weber; it finds other specific design influences and innovations in solid-color commercial ceramics, inspirations from Mexico and Asia, new schools for design training, new concepts about leisure, and the conversion of wartime technologies to peacetime use (exemplified by Charles and Ray Eames's plywood and fiberglass furniture). The heart of California Design is the modern California home, famously characterized by open plans conducive to outdoor living. The layouts of modernist homes by Pierre Koenig, Craig Ellwood, and Raphael Soriano, for example, were intended to blur the distinction between indoors and out. Homes were furnished with products from Heath Ceramics, Van Keppel-Green, and Architectural Pottery as well as other, previously unheralded companies and designers. Many objects were designed to be multifunctional: pool and patio furniture that was equally suitable indoors, lighting that was both task and ambient, bookshelves that served as room dividers, and bathing suits that would turn into ensembles appropriate for indoor entertainment. California Design includes 350 images, most in color, of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, architecture, graphic and industrial design, film, textiles, and fashion, and ten incisive essays that trace the rise of the California design aesthetic.

100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers

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Publisher : Rockport Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1616736097
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis 100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers by : Laurel Saville

Download or read book 100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers written by Laurel Saville and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author polls a wide range of designers whose years of experience have helped them find not only the most creative solutions for their clients’ design needs, but also the most successful solutions. The insights of top publication designers will help guide other designers in both approach and execution of designs that succeed for their clients. It covers a variety of topics, so the reader is able to walk away with a variety of insight to all aspects of his or her career.

USA

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Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861893444
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis USA by : Gwendolyn Wright

Download or read book USA written by Gwendolyn Wright and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account the evolution of American architecture, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first.

Golden Dreams

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923140
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Book Synopsis Golden Dreams by : Kevin Starr

Download or read book Golden Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence. Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years. In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San Diego as one of the largest cities in the nation, and the decline of political centrism. He explores the Silent Generation and the emergent Boomer youth cult, the Beats and the Hollywood "Rat Pack," the pervasive influence of Zen Buddhism and other Asian traditions in art and design, the rise of the University of California and the emergence of California itself as a utopia of higher education, the cooling of West Coast jazz, freeway and water projects of heroic magnitude, outdoor life and the beginnings of the environmental movement. More broadly, he shows how California not only became the most populous state in the Union, but in fact evolved into a mega-state en route to becoming the global commonwealth it is today. Golden Dreams continues an epic series that has been widely recognized for its signal contribution to the history of American culture in California. It is a book that transcends its stated subject to offer a wealth of insight into the growth of the Sun Belt and the West and indeed the dramatic transformation of America itself in these pivotal years following the Second World War.

Ezra Stoller

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Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714879222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Ezra Stoller written by Pierluigi Serraino and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating history of 20th-century Modern American architecture, as seen through the eyes of a legendary photographer It is impossible to overstate the importance of photography's role in shaping the world's perception of architecture. And towering above the ever-growing crowd of image-makers is Ezra Stoller, an architectural photographer of immeasurable consequence in documenting the history of modern architecture - both known and unknown - in the United States and beyond. This book is one of the first to present the breadth of Stoller's largely unseen archive of images, brought to life through exquisite color and duotone black-and-white reproductions.

The Creative Architect

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Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934250
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Creative Architect by : Pierluigi Serraino

Download or read book The Creative Architect written by Pierluigi Serraino and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind a little-known episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology—a 1950s creativity study of the top architects of the day, including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, George Nelson, and dozens more—is now published for the first time. The story of midcentury architecture in America is dominated by outsized figures who were universally acknowledged as creative geniuses. Yet virtually unheard of is this intensive 1958–59 study, conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley, that scrutinized these famous architects in an effort to map their minds. Deploying an array of tests reflecting current psychological theories, the investigation sought to answer questions that still apply to creative practice today: What makes a person creative? What are the biographical conditions and personality traits necessary to actualize that potential? The study’s findings have been gathered through numerous original sources, including questionnaires, aptitude tests, and interview transcripts, revealing how these great architects evaluated their own creativity and that of their peers. In The Creative Architect, Pierluigi Serraino charts the development, implementation, and findings of this historic study, producing the first look at a fascinating and forgotten moment in architecture, psychology, and American history.

Dwell

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Dwell written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Maynard L. Parker

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300171153
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Maynard L. Parker written by Jennifer A. Watts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van het werk van de Amerikaanse architectuurfotograaf (1900-1976).

Dwell

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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Dwell written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Architectural Record

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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ArcCA

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book ArcCA written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: