L.A. Modern

by Tim Street-Porter

Tim Street-Porter (Photographer) and Nicolai Ouroussoff (Introduction)

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for L.A. Modern
Shelve It

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

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.
  • ISBN10 0847830675
  • ISBN13 9780847830671
  • Publish Date 21 October 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rizzoli International Publications