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Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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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 idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others, L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.9794940904
EAN: 9780847830671
ISBN: 0847830675
Label: Rizzoli
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
Publisher: Rizzoli
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Studio: Rizzoli


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: L.A.Modern
Comment:
......very nice quality pictures....very detailed......
- unfortunately floor plans are missing -

Customer Rating:
Summary: Modern classic
Comment: this is a great coffee table book, lots of interesting colored photographs and bios. It's a good must have mid century architecture book with one of Julius Schulman's photography book.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Damaged book
Comment: The book is completely warped due to humidity or some type of place it was stored. Both covers as well as the pages inside do not lay flat and for such a nice coffee table book I'm very disappointed.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Book Ever!
Comment: I purchased this book as a gift for my husband, and he says it is absolutely the "best book EVER." The pictures are amazing, the quality of the book is excellent, the architecture highlighted is forward thinking for the dates the homes were built, and overall it is providing endless inspiration for our own home. Highly recommended.

Customer Rating:
Summary: "well-guarded, perfectly restored Beverly Hills aeries...Street-Porter...rated access"
Comment: I did a bit of Googling and found the title of this review on the GQ web site:
[...]
I also found this review in Modernism Magazine;
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Review of L.A.Modern in the Winter 2008-09 issue of Modernism magazine
By Sandy McLendon
Tim Street-Porter's L.A. Modern resembles a coffee-table book, but
it isn't really; it's a valentine to a city with which
the photographer is madly, dizzyingly in love. Street-Porter, who is a
long way from his native Britain, lost his heart to Los Angeles many
years ago, and it shows. His sumptuous, saturated, crystalline images
of the best modernist residential architecture in the city are the archi-
tectural-photography equivalent of George Hurrell's famed glamour
shots of Hollywood stars, photographs that communicate not only an
idealized beauty, but their creator's love of the subject, too. Structures
so often photographed as to be almost wearyingly familiar, such as
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House (1924), become fresh and vital
again when seen through Street-Porter's lens; the photographer is able
to communicate not only the oft-seen monumental quality of its exte-
rior, but the gentle melancholy of its interiors as well. His photographs
of Richard Neutra's Singleton House (1959) show how the structure's
Mulholland Drive acreage and extraordinary views made its design
inevitable. Tim Street-Porter has undertaken the task of writing his
book's text to excellent effect: his architectural connoisseurship and
his knowledge of his adopted city spill from every page.

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