Title & Author:

A confederacy of heretics / edited by Todd Gannon and Ewan Branda.

Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : SCI-Arc Press in association with Getty Publications, ©2013.

Description:

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

Notes:
"A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979 is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. ... exhibitions and programs organized by seventeen area cultural institutions from April through July 2013"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213).
Director's foreword / Eric Owen Moss -- Preface / Todd Gannon, Ewan Branda, Andrew Zago -- A confederacy of heretics / Todd Gannan -- Part I.L.A. in the 1970s, 12 viewpoints : One week shows by 11 architects / John Dreyfuss : Eugene Kupper: Kupper employs dual process ; Roland Coate, Jr.: mystery in Roland Coate's work ; Frederick Fisher: showing how to mix metaphors ; Frank Dimster: designs in social relationships ; Frank Gehry: courage of his conceptions ; Peter de Bretteville: De Bretteville in exhibition ; Morphosis: a sampler of a duo's whimsy ; Studio Works: their aim: social change ; Eric Owen Moss: nine entrées: Eric Moss' architectural feast ; Coy Howard: gallery stirs up architects ; The importance of being Coy / Joseph Giovannini -- Part II. A confederacy of heretics : Eccentric projections / Andrew Zago ; Exhibition plates -- Part III. Current viewpoints : Howard Hughes's column / Ewan Branda -- A tale of two Venices / Patricia A. Morton -- Guerrillas, architects, and cable TV: SCI-Arc's videos in context / Kevin McMahon -- Portraits of the artist, amongst men / Joe Day -- Wicked architects / Paulette Singley -- Afterword / Thom Mayne.

Summary:

A Confederacy of Heretics examines the explosion of activity associated with the Architecture Gallery, the first gallery in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to architecture. Instigated by Thom Mayne in the fall of 1979, the Architecture Gallery staged ten exhibitions in as many weeks by both young and established Los Angeles practitioners, featuring the work of Eugene Kupper, Roland Coate, Jr., Frederick Fisher, Frank Dimster, Frank Gehry, Peter de Bretteville, Morphosis (Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi), Studio Works (Craig Hodgetts and Robert Mangurian), and Eric Owen Moss. Another young architect, Coy Howard, opened the events with a lecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, which hosted talks by each exhibiting architect. In an unprecedented move by the popular press, the events were chronicled in weekly reviews by the critic John Dreyfuss in the Los Angeles Times. Gathering an array of original drawings, models, photographs, video recordings, and commentary alongside new assessments by current scholars, A Confederacy of Heretics aims neither to canonize the participating architects nor to consecrate their unorthodox activities. Rather, the book re-examines the early work of some of Los Angeles' most well-known architects, charts the development of their most potent design techniques, and documents a crucial turning point in Los Angeles architecture, a time when Angeleno architecture culture shifted from working local variations on imported themes to exporting highly original disciplinary innovations with global reach. Taken together, the exhibition, symposium, and catalog that comprise A Confederacy of Heretics offer a unique lens through which to analyze a pivotal moment in the development of late twentieth-century architecture.

ISBN:

9781606062630
1606062638

Subject:

Architecture Gallery (Venice, Calif.) Exhibitions.
Southern California Institute of Architecture Exhibitions.
Southern California Institute of Architecture
Architecture, American California Los Angeles 20th century Exhibitions.
Architects California Los Angeles Exhibitions.
Architecture américaine Californie Los Angeles 20e siècle Expositions.
Architectes Californie Los Angeles Expositions.
Architects
Architecture, American
California Los Angeles

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gannon, Todd.
Branda, Ewan.
Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Pacific standard time presents: Modern architecture in L.A.
Confederacy of heretics, The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291602
Call No.: BIB 235349
Status: Available