L.A. Modern
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847830675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Amazing Book for all architects!" according to Jeffrey Smith. I purchased this book for Christmas as a gift to my brother who is an architect! He absolutely loved the book. Very detailed and amazing photo's. Pefect gift as a coffee table book!. Five Stars Bradley E McLaughlin I spend hours just flipping thru, looking, reading, re-reading You get the idea.. A book worth keeping. Sir Jocko Walcott Excellent book with Tim Street Porter's outstanding eye. LA Modern illustrates a worthy collection of LA homes with many designs drawing from the MId Century style.
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. Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles, from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. 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. This brand of modernism, blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors, has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.. The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, a
He lives and works in Los Angeles. Nicolai Ouroussoff is the architecture critic for The New York Times. He is the author of Freestyle, Casa Mexicana, The Los Angeles House, Hollywood Style, and Los Angeles. . Tim Street-Porter is an award-winning photographer who shoots for various shelter magazines
"(Street-Porter) and (Ouroussoff) document some of the city's most drop-dead spreads, including those by Frank Gehry, John Launtner and Craig Ellwood." --Angeleno Interiors "Tim Street-Porter basks in LA Modern." Vanity Fair