Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles
Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles

Author: Stefanos Polyzoides

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780910413534

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Essays, drawings, plans, and over 200 black-and-white photographs document the courtyard housing in Los Angeles. The style, expressed in both grand and humble dwellings, was at its height in the 1920's and 1930's, but is still around to provide privacy and greenspace in the dense urban area. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Los Angeles in the Thirties, 1931-1941
Los Angeles in the Thirties, 1931-1941

Author: David Gebhard

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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"Speed, mobility, freedom: these governed the aesthetics of the "city of the future" as it spread its arterials across the Southern California landscape. If ever a city and a decade seemed meant for each other, it was Los Angeles and the streamlined '30s. The gloom of the Depression did little to curb the dynamism of this optimistic, greedy, sprawling metropolis. The Hollywood dream machine mirrored the aspirations of millions of Americans - a single-family home and yard, the independence of a private car on uncluttered streets, and the latest household conveniences. And L.A.'s built environment reflected the dreams, realizing in fact what the film sets offered in fantasy, with imagery ranging from up-to-date recreations of popular period styles to the stripped-classic monumentality of public buildings, and on toward the future in the sleek Moderne of curved corners, fluidly bent neon and metal tubing, and sculpted surfaces of stucco and glass brick ... Attention is focused on the types of architectural imagery used in commercial, public, and residential buildings..."--Page 4 of cover.

The Los Angeles House
The Los Angeles House

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780940512405

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Arranged chronologically, this stylish and elegant book presents the cream of Los Angeles's houses from all periods and styles--from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry and from Delores del Rio to Madonna. Lucid text provides an intelligent explanation of the houses presented. From the author of Freestyle. 376 color photos. National ads/media.

Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses
Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses

Author: Carla Lind

Publisher: Pomegranate

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780764900136

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Always an experimenter, in the 1920's Wright debuted an innovative building system with four striking houses in the Los Angeles area. This book features these internationally renowned compositions and a fifth that shares their exotic form.The Wright-at-a-Glance series showcases the work of one of the world's best-known architects. Comprising twelve books in all, this series offers an overview of Wright's life, buildings, and designs.

American Splendor
American Splendor

Author: Michael C. Kathrens

Publisher: Acanthus PressLlc

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780926494619

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Originally published in 2002, American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer is the first and only extensive study of this master creator of the American Great House. This revised edition features three new chapters and over 50 new colour photographs.

Classic Homes of Los Angeles
Classic Homes of Los Angeles

Author: Douglas Woods

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0847833844

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"This deluxe volume offers an exclusive look into the classic homes and gardens in the legendary neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles, such as Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Malibu. In a region famed for its lavish homes and celebrity residents, one finds here a panorama of richly detailed architectural styles, from Craftsman, Tudor, and Georgian, to Spanish Colonial and Tuscan Revival examples." "Shown here in rich detail are the estate of the great Hollywood producer and director Cecil B. DeMille in Laughlin Park, the former Danny Kay House in Beverly Hills, the revered Millard House by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pasadena, and wonderful Arts & Crafts masterwork by Green and Green---the Gamble House---also in Pasadena. The works of those and other renowned architects, such as Wallace Neff, Paul Williams, George Washington Smith, and Roland Coate, illustrate the wide range of period-revival styles popular in Southern California during its "Golden Age of Expansion" from 1899 to 1938. Lush, all-new color photographs capture the grandeur of these homes and their exquisite gardens in the present day."--BOOK JACKET.