Building the Slope
Subtitle: Hillside Houses 1920-1960
Publisher: Arts & Architecture Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
Description: English trannslation of French edition, Construire La Pente
In Los Angeles during the 1920s the framework of architectural theory changed. New rules had to be invented to build
on the hillsides. This study is a survey and analysis of the design methods and construction techniques used by the principal
figures of the modern movement in Southern California for difficult sloping canyon and hillside sites. Architects whose
works are shown and discussed include Wright, Schindler, Neutra, Lautner, Koenig, Ellwood and many others. 

Dominique Rouillard, an architect with a doctorate in art history, is professor at the School of Architecture of the
University of Lille, France.
Table of contents: title: ix
label: Foreword; title: 1
label: 1.  Invention Born of Constraint; title: 7
label: 2.  L.A.; title: 13
label: 3.  Configurations; title: 19
label: 4.  The Oblique and the Wall; title: 29
label: 5.  Wright's Growth Configuration; title: 45
label: 6.  Schindler: Two Site Systems; title: 87
label: 7.  Combined Configurations; title: 97
label: 8.  Fall Line/View Line; title: 101
label: 9.  Land Figures; title: 107
label: 10. Architectural Configurations; title: 113
label: 11. Technology; title: 137
label: 12. The Myth of Industrialization; title: 167
label: Index