Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
California Dingbats
Download California Dingbats full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online California Dingbats ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis California Dingbats! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California Dingbats! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dingbat 2. 0: the Iconic Los Angeles Apartment As Projection of a Metropolis by : Thurman Grant
Download or read book Dingbat 2. 0: the Iconic Los Angeles Apartment As Projection of a Metropolis written by Thurman Grant and published by Doppelhouse Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dingbat 2.0 is the first critical study of the most ubiquitous and mundane building type in Los Angeles: the dingbat apartment. Often dismissed as ugly and unremarkable, dingbat apartments have qualities that arguably make them innovative, iconoclastic, and distinctly "L.A." For more than half a century the idiosyncratic dingbat has been largely anonymous, occasionally fetishized and often misunderstood. Praised and vilified in equal measure, dingbat apartments were a critical enabler of Los Angeles' rapid postwar urban expansion. While these apartments are known for their variety of midcentury decorated facades, less explored is the way they have contributed to a consistency of urban density achieved by few other twentieth century cities. Dingbat 2.0 integrates essays and discussions by some of today's leading architects, urbanists and cultural critics with photographic series, typological analysis, and speculative designs from around the world to propose alternate futures for Los Angeles housing and to consider how qualities of the inarguably flawed housing type can foreground many crucial issues facing global metropolises today. Dingbat 2.0 gives an often-maligned Los Angeles building type its long overdue moment in the sun, not only advancing a sophisticated typology of dingbats, but also reimagining the potential of the dingbat for the twenty-first century--at a moment when the imperative to create livable and modest affordable housing is more pressing than ever. - Ken Bernstein, Principal City Planner, Los Angeles Department of City Planning and Office of Historic Resources This book is extremely valuable for designers, particularly when one considers that architects generate species of buildings. An in-depth study of this particularly indigenous species to Los Angeles allows architects to not only become familiar with the causes and effects of the dingbat, but also the many possibilities for its future morphologies. - Jimenez Lai, founder and creator of Bureau Spectacular One of the many brilliances of this great book is the telling comparison of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye--raised on its skinny pilotis to create an entirely ornamental void--and the dingbat--likewise lally column-upped in the air but usefully making room for cars beneath. Ever not quite modern, Corb pontificated about "machines for living" while never quite knowing what to do with their true enabler: the machine for leaving. The indelible dingbat is a sandwich of necessity and desire that bespeaks the throwaway (and getaway) modernity uniquely Made in L.A. -- Michael Sorkin, Architect, Urbanist and Author; Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio
Download or read book Pretty Vacant written by Clive Piercy and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing better than one boring building is hundreds of them. Far from the glamorous and avant-garde architectural features that make Los Angeles justifiably famous are the humble apartment buildings known as "dingbats." But Pretty Vacant dares to elevate the low-rise, the boxy, the not remarkably well-constructed to the architecturally sublime. In this inexpensive brick of a book, through scads of photographs of these underappreciated gems, their boundless surfacey charms are soon obvious. Combining funky textures, streamlined sconces, and future-retro ornamentation, these buildings practically define LA vernacular in their optimistic mix of mid-century modishness and darling details. Clive Piercy's photographs provide a streetside glimpse into the curious lives of these buildings, with charming names that range from the regal (Kings Studios) to the space-age (The Galaxie). Assembled in a compact but weighty package with more than 480 images, Pretty Vacant provides a snapshot tour and kitschy homage to this underdog architectural form.
Book Synopsis California Coastales! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California Coastales! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The California Hot Air Balloon Mystery by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book The California Hot Air Balloon Mystery written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California's Unsolved Mysteries (& Their "Solutions") by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California's Unsolved Mysteries (& Their "Solutions") written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Beast of the California Bed and Breakfast by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book The Beast of the California Bed and Breakfast written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Jersey Dingbats! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book New Jersey Dingbats! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California "Crinkum-Crankum" by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California "Crinkum-Crankum" written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Festival for Kids! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California Festival for Kids! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Festival Fun for Kids! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California Festival Fun for Kids! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.
Download or read book Los Angeles written by Reyner Banham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1971.
Book Synopsis Zentangle Dingbatz by : Brian Crimmins
Download or read book Zentangle Dingbatz written by Brian Crimmins and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dingbatz are a fun way to incorporate the fundamentals of Zentangle into a wide variety of creative projects and bring attention and mindfulness to the smallest corners of your life. This book will introduce you to how dingbatz are constructed, and how to build from that basic structure to create designs uniquely your own.
Book Synopsis Patch, the Pirate Dog by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book Patch, the Pirate Dog written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Rollercoasters! by : Carole Marsh
Download or read book California Rollercoasters! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving by : John Chase
Download or read book Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving written by John Chase and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004-07-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.