Title & Author:

Notes from another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape / edited by Anthony Fontenot.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
[Valle d'Aosta,] Italy : Musumeci, SpA, Quart
©2022

Description:

294 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Portrait of Gregory Ain laid in.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Common ground / Nicholas Olsberg -- Social housing : shared space and the urban pattern / Anthony Fontenot -- Gregory Ain : under surveillance / Anthony Denzer -- Step-back planning gives privacy, 1940 -- Arts & Architecture's Designs for Postwar Living, jury comments, 1943 / Gregory Ain -- The flexible house faces reality, 1951 / Gregory Ain -- Arts & Architecture's Second Annual Small House Competition, jury comments, 1945 / Frederick L. Langhorst, J. R. Davidson, Gregory Ain, John L. Rex, and Charles Eames -- Subdivision by Gregory Ain, A.I.A., architect for Park Planned Homes, 1945 / Gregory Ain -- Form follows faction : invitation to an architectural faculty to reexamine and question the basis of today's architectural training, 1965 / Gregory Ain -- In search of theory, 1966 / Gregory Ain -- "What I believe ..." : a statement of architectural principles, 1955 / Esther McCoy -- Notes for a lecture on Gregory Ain, 1982 / Esther McCoy -- Dunsmuir Flats, 1937, Los Angeles, CA -- Park Planned Homes, 1947, Altadena, CA -- Avenel Cooperative, 1948, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA -- Mar Vista Housing, 1948, Mar Vista, Los Angeles, CA -- Community Homes Cooperative, 1946-48.

Summary:

"This book profiles the modernist Californian architect Gregory Ain (1908-1988)-specifically his housing projects-through a selection of essays by historians and critics, and by imagery both archival and contemporary"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262046657 (paperback)
0262046652

Subject:

Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988 Criticism and interpretation.
Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988
Housing California, Southern History 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic California, Southern History 20th century.
Architecture and society California, Southern History 20th century.
Architecture et société Californie (Sud) Histoire 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Domestic
Housing
Southern California

Form/genre:

Architectural criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Fontenot, Anthony, editor.
Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988.

Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315657
Call No.: 315657
Copy: 1
Status: Available