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* Read # Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970 by Thomas S. Hines ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970 Sunny design By any criteria this has to be considered a monumental study and because of its thoroughness it will surely become the standard reference on LA modernism up to 1970. This year wasn't just chosen as an arbitrary cut-off point but as the author explains in his Epilogue: it coincided with the conclusion of the Case Study Houses program. CSH, least as far as housing went, was the culmination of all the modernism that preceded it; it was the year Richard Neutra died (also Welton Becket d
| Title | : | Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847833208 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 756 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Sunny design By any criteria this has to be considered a monumental study and because of its thoroughness it will surely become the standard reference on LA modernism up to 1970. This year wasn't just chosen as an arbitrary cut-off point but as the author explains in his Epilogue: it coincided with the conclusion of the Case Study Houses program. CSH, least as far as housing went, was the culmination of all the modernism that preceded it; it was the year Richard Neutra died (also Welton Becket died in 1969); around 1970, according British critic Reyner Banham, modernism ceased to be a major worldwide ar. This is a book you buy for the fascinating TEXT rather than the images. When I first got the book I was disappointed. Most of the images are so-so, and there is, inexplicably, a dearth of floor plans. Is anything more frustrating regarding a book on architecture?Later I started to actually read the book, and my opinion wholly improved! There was a lot I'd not read elsewhere, and the various architects came alive in way they normally don't in more academic-like studies. In particular I enjoyed the chapter on Schindler. I had believed the All-Important Schindler Myth: greater fame had been essentially stolen from him by his former friend/colleague, the nefarious . Architecture of the Sun (Rizzoli) In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that Southern California and Los Angeles in particular, have emerged as leading areas for the development of topline architectural work, particularly in the area of residential real estate. After all, A-listers like Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra and Frank Gehry have been plying their craft in the area for decades. Now come two new books to educate and elucidate the epic works of building achievement that make the region what it is today.Thomas Hines' "Architecture of the Sun" is an elaborate, coffee table sized volume detailing the ri
It is also a study in fine living. Chilled cocktail, anyone?” Playboy"If you coveted the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Ennis House in Los Angeles we wrote about last year, but didn't quite have the $15 million asking price, you should pick up a copy of Architecture of the Sun. “Los Angeles’s modernist architecture is defined by the city’s climate, opulence and clash of cultures…Thomas Hine’s new Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970 (Rizzoli) is a thorough study of the work of Schindler, Neutra, Wright and the inimitable John Lautner. The weighty tome, being published later this month by Rizzoli for $95, focuses
A personal epilogue reflects on the author’s exploration of Los Angeles modernism from the late 1960s to 2009.. The minimalist Case Study House program is contrasted with the sensuous modernism of John Lautner and with the large-scale modernism of William Pereira and Welton Becket. This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, focusing on both its regional and international contexts. The book re-interprets the modernist variations of Wright’s disciple Rudolph Schindler and the International Style of his contemporary Richard Neutra, as well as of their followers: Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, and Harwell Harris. An authoritative survey of the masters of twentieth-century modernist architecture in Los Angeles. Hines ends the book in the early 1970s, as modernism began to confront the challenge of the post-modernist critique. Thomas Hines critically analyzes the concepts of modernism and regionalism and begins his exploration by contrasting the turn-of-the-century Craftsman work of Charles and Henry Greene with the rationalist modernism of their contemporary Irving Gill and the expressionist modernism of Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright
In 1994 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. . Thomas S. Hines is Professor Emeritus of History and Architecture at UCLA, where he teaches cultural, urban, and architectural history. Hines has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEH, and Getty fellowships. His books include Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform and Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture
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