Entrée principale:

Hines, Thomas S.

Titre et auteur:

Architecture of the sun : Los Angeles modernism, 1900-1970 / Thomas S. Hines.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 2010.

Description:

755 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 734-741) and index.
Introduction : regionalism, modernism, modernization -- Prologue : Los Angeles, 1900 -- ch. 1. A leaven in the blood : Greene & Greene and the California bungalow -- ch. 2. The stone in the meadow : the achievement of Irving Gill -- ch. 3. A shooting star : Frank Lloyd Wright in Southern California -- ch. 4. Over the top : Lloyd Wright and art deco Los Angeles -- ch. 5. A continual becoming : Rudolph Schindler's journey to the future, 1887-1928 -- ch. 6. California calls you : the brave new world of Richard Neutra, 1892-1932 -- ch. 7. The frame for a life : Rudolph Schindler's discordant modernism, 1930-1953 -- ch. 8. Modern to the minute : international style and streamline moderne, 1932-1942 -- ch. 9. Disciples and masters : the California modernism of Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, and Harwell Hamilton Harris -- ch. 10. A model modernism : the architects and fellow travelers of the Case Study program -- ch. 11. Regionalism and rationalism : the late work of Richard Neutra, 1945-1970 -- ch. 12. Regionalism and expressionism : the modernism of John Lautner -- ch. 12. Building big : the corporate modernism of postwar Los Angeles : Welton Becket and William Pereira -- Epilogue : a personal note.

Résumé:

This is an erudite and elegant history of architectural modernism in greater Los Angeles from the early 20th century to the 1970s.

ISBN:

9780847833207 (hc ; alk. paper)
0847833208 (hc ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Modern movement (Architecture) California Los Angeles.
Architecture California Los Angeles History.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Californie Los Angeles.
Architecture Californie Los Angeles Histoire.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture California Los Angeles History 20th century.
Arkitektur Förenta staterna historia 1900-talet.
Modernism (arkitektur) Förenta staterna.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles ( Kalifornien )
California Los Angeles.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 267725
Cote: BIB 199651
Statut: Disponible