Title: Glitter stucco & dumpster diving : reflections on building production in the vernacular city /
Authors: Chase, John, 1953-
Publisher: Verso,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Architecture California Los Angeles; Architecture California, Southern; Architecture, Modern
Contents: pt. 1. The Southern California home as commodity. The stucco box (with John Beach) ; Build your castle upon the trash: the making of mountaingate -- pt. 2. Illusion and delusion in Los Angeles. Finding Los Angeles in the movies, finding the movies in Los Angeles ; How can I miss you when you won't go away?: convention versus invention and the survival of period revival in Southern California ; Knocking off the knock-offs -- pt. 3. Las Vegas. Pirates! Volcanoes! Neon!: welcome to the capitol of non-glamour! (with Frances Anderton) -- pt. 4. Personal space. A curmudgeon's guide to urban living: paranoia, pagoda and pirate cave ; Trashy space, trashy behavior and trashy people -- pt. 5. Classifying and evaluating building production. The typology of building production ; Duty and the beast: the representative and the lovable in the preservation of the recent past ; You are what you buy: the consumerist imperative in American building production.