Los Angeles Modernism Revisited
Download Los Angeles Modernism Revisited full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Los Angeles Modernism Revisited ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Andreas Nierhaus |
Publisher | : Park Publishing (WI) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : 9783038601616 |
Two Austrian-born designers have left their indelible mark on California?s residential architecture of the 1930s to 1960s: Richard Neutra (1892?1970) and Rudolph M. Schindler (1887?1953) combined modern form and inventive construction with new materials to create a truly modern vision of living that remains inspirational to the present day.00This new book features twenty famous and lesser known houses from that period, designed by the two pioneers and other architects that were influenced by Neutra?s and Schindler?s ideas. All are marked by highly economical use and outstanding quality of space, a minimalist aesthetic, and by their ideal adaption to climatic conditions. They are monuments of a period as well as timeless models for contemporary and future architecture.00The images by photographer David Schreyer show the buildings in their present state as a commodity of highest quality that can be, and should be, altered to meet today?s changed demands to a living space. Andreas Nierhaus?s texts, based on interviews, explore the relationship of the present inhabitants to their homes and what they mean to them. Together, the authors offer uniquely intimate insights into a sophisticated way of life still too little known outside California.
Author | : Michael Webb |
Publisher | : Oro Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781941806074 |
Place of publication transcribed from publisher's web site.
Author | : Editors of Phaidon Press |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2009-05-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780714849683 |
An accessible and affordable overview of 100 iconic Modernist houses from around the world, ranging from the early twentieth century to the present day
Author | : Christopher James Alexander |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1606060791 |
"A selection of 60 photographs of Los Angeles by the photographer Julius Shulman (American, 1910-2009)."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Barbara Mac Lamprecht |
Publisher | : Taschen America Llc |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9783836513265 |
Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872 1970) came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship between people and nature; his trademark plate glass walls and ceilings which turn into deep overhangs have the effect of connecting the indoors with the outdoors. Neutra ability to incorporate technology, aesthetics, science, and nature into his designs him recognition as one of Modernist architecture greatest talents.
Author | : Richard Martin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1472520238 |
From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design play in Lynch's films. Martin combines original research at Lynchian locations in Los Angeles, London and Lódz with insights from architects including Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier and Jean Nouvel and urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs and Edward Soja. In analyzing the towns, cities, homes, roads and stages found in Lynch's work, Martin not only reveals their central importance for understanding this controversial and distinctive film-maker, but also suggests how Lynch's films can provide a deeper understanding of the places and spaces in which we live.
Author | : David Van Zanten |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0226850811 |
Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie School of architecture. Largely heralded for her exquisite presentation drawings for both Wright and her husband, Walter Burley Griffin, Mahony was an adventurous designer in her own right, whose independent and highly original work attracted attention at a moment when architectural drawing and graphic illustration were becoming integral to the design process. This book examines new research into Mahony’s life and paints a vivid portrait of a woman’s place among the lives and productions of some of our most noted American architects. The essays included take us on an ambitious journey from Mahony’s origins in the Chicago suburbs, through her years as Wright’s right-hand woman and her bohemian life with her husband in Australia—whose new capital city, Canberra, she helped to plan—up until her golden years in the middle of the twentieth century. Filled with richly detailed analyses of Mahony’s works and including and populated by an international cast of characters, Marion Mahony Reconsidered greatly expands our knowledge of this talented, complex, and enigmatic modern architect.
Author | : Richard J. Williams |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1789144175 |
Reyner Banham (1922–88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provocative writings are inescapable in these areas. His 1971 book on Los Angeles was groundbreaking in what it told Californians about their own metropolis, and architects about what cities might be if freed from tradition. Banham’s obsession with technology, and his talent for thinking the unthinkable, mean his work still resonates now, more than thirty years after his death. This book explores the full breadth of his career and his legacy, dealing not only with his major books, but a wide range of his journalism and media outputs, as well as the singular character of Banham himself.
Author | : Alys Moody |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2020-01-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474242324 |
Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia – many translated into English for the first time – this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Annotated throughout, the texts are supported by critical essays from leading modernist scholars exploring major issues in the contemporary study of global modernism. Global Modernists on Modernism is an essential resource for students and scholars of modernism and world literature and one that opens up a dazzling new array of perspectives on the field.
Author | : Ruth Wallach |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625853343 |
During the first half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles grew into a sprawling metropolis. As suburbs developed, demonstration homes and housing exhibitions brought innovative architectural and interior design styles. Displays like the California Home and Garden Exhibition showcased the latest in timesaving appliances, modern furniture and cutting-edge building techniques meant to represent the future and ideals of Southern California living. Model and tract home exhibitions like those at Leimert Park inspired a new generation of homebuyers. Designed to house the masses, multi-family developments like the Zigzag Moderne-style Val d'Amour were benchmarks for their time. Join author Ruth Wallach on a tour of the varied Modernist styles that give Los Angeles its distinct residential landscape.