Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990
Wim de Wit is an architectural historian and head of the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He has organized numerous exhibitions and contributed to catalogues about topics in the history of twentieth-century architecture, includingLessons from Bernard Rudofsky: Life as a Voyage(Birkhäuser, 2007). Christopher James Alexander is assistant curator of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute. He is the author ofJulius Shulman’s Los Angeles(Getty, 2011).