L.A. Modern

The birthplace of American modernism Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright Greene & Greene and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their own individual styles with a rare sensitivity to site landscape and human scale. This brand of modernism blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney. Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood Pierre Koenig John Lautner Charles and Ray Eames and Oscar Niemeyer among others L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.

Hardcover: 248 pages

Publisher: Rizzoli; First Edition edition (October 21 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780847830671

ISBN-13: 978-0847830671

ASIN: 0847830675

Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 1.1 x 10.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds