Koning Eizenberg: Buildings and Projects

by William J. Mitchell

Book Overview

The award-winning work of Koning Eizenberg reveals the influence of Southern California's unique modernist tradition and earlier craftsmen and bungalow architecture, as well as Los Angeles's stucco... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847819442
• ISBN13: 9780847819447
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful review of 23 buildings

Hundreds of photos, plans, elevations, sections, sketches, etc. in beautiful colors or B & W on glossy paper, brief project descriptions. CONTENTS: 7 Acknowledgments 8 Bound for Santa Monica Bay: An Introduction... 12 Skinning the Program: The Pragmatic Architecture... BUILDINGS 22 Sepulveda Gym 34 Simone Hotel 44 Boyd Hotel 48 Gilmore Bank 58 Gilmore Bank Office Building 62 OP 12 / Berkeley Street Housing 76 Electric ArtBlock 90 McMiHen Studio 94 Rosen and Wendel Franzen Houses 96 17th Street and Given Dennis House Additions 98 Lightstorm Entertainment and Digital Domain 100 Molloy House 106 Ken Edwards Center for Community Services 118 California Avenue Duplex 126 Materials Research Laboratory 130 Hollywood Duplex 142 Ozone Beach Boxes 148 Given Triplex 154 Koning Eizenberg House 168 Moore's Folly 170 Erenberg House 180 31st Street House 194 Tarzana House 206 Cheap Thrills and Double Takes 218 Selected Projects 220 Awards 220 Bibliography 223 Illustration Credits 224 Biographies 224 Office staff

Delightful & Pragmatic: Koning Eizenberg Architecture

This first monograph of one of Southern California's premier firms is beautifully presented, with extensive documentation (photos and drawings) of numerous projects and critical writings by Aaron Betsky, William Mitchell, and Julie Eizenberg.