L.A. modern
By: photographs and text by Tim Street-Porter ; introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff
Publisher: Rizzoli; Distributed to the U.S. trade by Random House; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780847830671
Subjects: Buildings, structures; History; Architecture; Modern Architecture
Other titles: LA modern
Description: "The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century, this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style, architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their own individual styles with a rare sensitivity to site, landscape, and human scale. This brand of modernism, blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors, has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney." "Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles, from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosyncratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Charles and Ray Fames, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others, L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography."--BOOK JACKET.