California cool
Subtitle: residential modernism reborn
By: text and photography by Russell Abraham
Publisher: Images Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mulgrave, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781864703986
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Pictorial works; History; Architecture and climate
Description: Showcases the modern residential style in Southern California and includes many of California's masters of modern residential architecture. Includes outstanding photography by Russell Abrahams.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Hillside houses:  Stroke of genius in the Palisades / Cigolle x Coleman; title: A modernist look at Bay Area regionalism / WA design; title: A bay view that can't be beat / Kanner Architects; title: Hollywood houses north of San Francisco / Swatt Architects; title: Modernism: Elegant and reproducible / Ray Kappe, FAIA; title: Urban living:  A house of steel for a man of glass in West Berkeley / Regan Bice Architects; title: Big city architect, big city house / Johnson Fain; title: Modernism, San Francisco style / Craig Steely Architecture; title: A line from Craig Ellwood to the present / Macy Architecture; title: Two Venetian cousins / Callas Shortridge Architects; title: Beach houses:  The house is a (recycled) machine for living / David Hertz Architects Inc., Studio of Environmental Architecture; title: Beach town houses, North and South / Erhlicht Architects; title: Life on the water / Seidel Architects; title: Beachside fun / Sutdio 9 and 2; title: Working with a "postage stamp" lot / Dean Nota Architect; title: Upbeat modern in a quirky Monterey Bay town / Flesher + Foster Architects; title: Country houses:  A master's touch in Carmel Valley / Jerrold E. Lomax, FAIA : Architect; title: Getting down to basics / Jim Jennings Architecture; title: Desert living, prefabricated / Marmol Radziner; title: Wine country simplicity / Edmonds + Lee.