Architecture of the sun : Los Angeles modernism, 1900-1970 / by Thomas S. Hines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hines, Thomas S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern movement (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles.

Modern movement (Architecture).

Architecture--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Architecture.

California--Los Angeles.

History.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Physical Description:

755 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli : Distributed to the U.S. trade by Random House, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction : regionalism, modernism, modernization

Prologue : Los Angeles, 1900

ch. 1. A leaven in the blood : Greene & Greene and the California bungalow

ch. 2. The stone in the meadow : the achievement of Irving Gill

ch. 3. A shooting star : Frank Lloyd Wright in Southern California

ch. 4. Over the top : Lloyd Wright and art deco Los Angeles

ch. 5. A continual becoming : Rudolph Schindler's journey to the future, 1887-1928

ch. 6. California calls you : the brave new world of Richard Neutra, 1892-1932

ch. 7. The frame for a life : Rudolph Schindler's discordant modernism, 1930-1953

ch. 8. Modern to the minute : international style and streamline moderne, 1932-1942

ch. 9. Disciples and masters : the California modernism of Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, and Harwell Hamilton Harris

ch. 10. A model modernism : the architects and fellow travelers of the Case Study program

ch. 11. Regionalism and rationalism : the late work of Richard Neutra, 1945-1970

ch. 12. Regionalism and expressionism : the modernism of John Lautner

ch. 12. Building big : the corporate modernism of postwar Los Angeles : Welton Becket and William Pereira

Epilogue : a personal note.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 734-741) and index.

ISBN:

9780847833207

0847833208

OCLC:

429021877