Los Angeles Architecture: The Contemporary Condition

By James Steele and James M. Steele

Book Overview

In "Los Angeles Architecture", James Steele considers the historic andeographic elements which are an important part of local sensibilities andeaves them into a narrative about the complex design activity taking placen the city today. Beginning with the pioneering characters of the Americanrts and Crafts movement, James Steele traces Los Angeles' architecturalnergy through the works of Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler torrive at the buildings of Frank Gehry, who is widely acknowledged to be aeerless interpreter of his surroundings.;This analysis expands tonvestigate the work of those who have followed Gehry's lead, from thevant-garde educational institutions such as Sci-Arc, to those who arettempting to complete the Los Angeles myth by at last giving it a downtown.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714828696
• ISBN13: 9780714828695
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.7" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up