Product Description: The Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler is regarded today as one of the central figures of the Modern movement. Trained in Vienna under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, Schindler then migrated to Los Angeles under the apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright...read more

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Product Description: While the formidable reputation of his father overshadows him, Lloyd Wright (1890-1972) and his work are drawing more and more attention. This, the first monograph on his buildings and projects, grew out of an 1971 exhibition held at UC Santa Barbara...read more

Product Description: This is a reprint of the catalogue that accompanied a show of Ain's work at UC Santa Barbara in 1980. Ain's oeuvre grew from his early association with Schindler and Neutra before World War Two into one the more interesting bodies of work in the post-war Modernist scene in Southern California...read more

Product Description: Catalogue from an exhibition Nov. 24, 1966 - February 2, 1997. University Art Museum, U of California, Santa Barbara. Copyright 1997.

Product Description: Now available in paperback, The California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (first published as Romanza) is the first book to focus exclusively on Wright's commercial and residential work in the Golden State, from the 1909 Stewart House to the Marin County Civic Center designed 50 years later...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A state-by-state guide to Art Deco architecture includes single-family houses, movie theaters, office buildings, gas stations, and hotels

"This book fills one of the many gaps in our knowledge of twentieth-century architects who were not Modernists. Lundie's more or less Traditional work is enhanced by its ferocious exploitation of rough materials, and, in the cabins especially, by what seems to be primordial Scandinavian references quite at home in the north woods of Minnesota"Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Yale University"Edwin Lundie was the great romantic among Minnesota architects, and this lovely book at last gives his work the recognition it so richly deserves."Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities"This book reveals Edwin Lundie to be an architect imbued with a passion for his art that few attain, let alone sustain for a lifetime. His buildings, as did those of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, attained an instant patina. This was the product of a mind that created character and composition by means of an extraordinary attention to the craft and construction of architecture. To realize that I received my architectural education at the University of Minnesota in the late 1950s without an awareness of Mr. Lundie's presence, to say nothing of his mastery of architectural form, leaves me incredulous."William Peterson, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates PC, Architects & Planning Consultants, New York CityThroughout a fifty-year career in St. Paul, architect Edwin H. Lundie (1886-1972) designed more than three hundred projects, predominantly residences, many utilizing either Northern European or Earl American themes. His architectural designs, along with the Prairie School inventions of Purcell and Elmslie and the modernist themes of Ralph Rapson, are collectively considered the best work of Minnesota architects in the twentieth century. What set Lundie apart from his colleagues was his devotion to detail and love of fine craftsmanship.Long overlooked as architects moved away from picturesque themes in favor of modernism, Lundie's designs are now enjoying a resurgence of attention concurrent with revived interest in postmodernism, regionalism, and a sense of place. For the first time, the significance of this unique body of work is presented in The Architecture of Edwin Lundie for architects, art historians, designers, builders, craftspeople, students, and the general public.Author Dale Mulfinger undertook this book after a decade of studying and recording Lundie's buildings and lecturing at local, regional, and national forums. Here he brings together a foreword by David Gebhard that sets Lundie in a national context; a biographical essay by Eileen Michels; his own piece assessing Lundie's design principles; outstanding color photographs by Peter Kerze; and beautiful rendering in pencil and ink by Lundie himself. In addition, the book offers thirty profiles of individual buildings with photos, floor plans, and drawings to highlight feature demonstrating Lundie's genius.

Product Description: Book by Gebhard, David, Peres, Anthony

Product Description: Biography of this famous woman architect.

Product Description: A seminal study of the architecture of Los Angeles in the decade when the city came of age. The built environment reflected the optimism of the time and the place, where streamlined public architecture, the freedom and mobility of homeowners, modernist work likes Neutra and Schindler combined in the glow of the Hollywood Dream Machine to create the fabric of Los Angeles...read more

Identifies and describes hundreds of architecturally noteworthy buildings, and includes a glossary of terms and styles

Product Description: The architect of some of Southern California's most notable and spectacular gardens of the 1920's. This book reconstructs the making of nine of them, including the Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, the Andalusian garden of Archibald Young in Pasadena, and the Italian garden of Kirk Johnson in Montecito...read more

Describes the history and structure of forty-two types of American architecture, including airports, barns, banks, bridges, colleges, diners, gas stations, libraries, markets, schoolhouses, and zoos

Shows and describes notable homes, libraries, churches, museums, theaters, federal buildings, and Spanish missions in the Los Angeles area

Product Description: Book by Gebhard, David

Product Description: This guidebook has it all for the amateur LA architecture sleuth on a quest to discover the vast and important treasures in the Los Angeles area--interesting descriptions and historical narratives, numerous photos of current (circa 1977) structures and some--for whatever wretched reason--destroyed buildings, plus maps (again, circa 1977) and tips to get there...read more