Brave New Houses: Architectural Innov
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0500341974
ISBN 13
9780500341971
Category
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
240
Description
The world is fascinated by southern California's paradisiacal setting. The casual lifestyle, ever-blooming gardens and courtyard houses that open onto breathtaking vistas never cease to interest architects, homebuyers and architecture enthusiasts. Los Angeles, in particular, has been a hotbed of cutting-edge residential architecture since Frank Lloyd Wright's Mayan-inspired hillside homes of the 1940s, the Case Study Houses of the 1950s and Frank Gehry's chain-link wrapped Santa Monica home from the 1970s. In "Brave New Houses" Michael Webb illustrates how contemporary architects draw upon and extend the modernist legacy that has come to define southern California's architectural history. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
2
