[PDF] Pocket Guide To Los Angeles Architecture eBook

Author : Judith Paine Mcbrien
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393731903

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This guidebook organizes 100 architectural highlights into three walkable downtown tours and two side trips. Sprawling Los Angeles may never be considered a walking city, but this concise handbook organizes one hundred must-see architectural highlights into three downtown walkable tours and two delightful side trips. It covers such classic sights as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and the Griffith Observatory; modernist landmarks such as the Schindler House; creative reuses such as the hip Standard Hotel, once the Superior Oil Building; and the latest new public and cultural buildings, including Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Hall and Richard Meier’s Getty Center. Each entry summarizes the structure’s history and significance and is illustrated with original drawings that capture the essence of the place.

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area.

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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"The most comprehensive guide over published to the man-made environment of Southern California. Contains hundreds of entries plus notes on city history, freeways, murals, and historic preservation. Also, a comprehensive bibliography, a photographic history of Los Angeles architecture, and an unequalled style glossary. David Gebhard and Robert Winter deftly pilot the enthusiast through one of the richest architectural regions in the world. With perception, understanding, and wit, the authors point out the classical monuments, the tacky copies, the sublime, and the bizarre. They lead us to the famous buildings and through the backstreets and alleys to find the unsung treasures. Loaded with maps and photographs."--Back cover.

Author : David Gebhard
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1626400555

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"Since its first publication in 1965, The Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles has explored every rich potency of the often relentless, but sometimes relenting L.A. cityscape. It now contains ninety-six sections organized in thirteen geographic chapters, boasting over 200 new additions to over thousands of entries cataloging every crease of Los Angeles County's metropolitan sheath"--

Author : Robert Winter
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781423608936

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Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520260155

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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 1971.

Author : Judith Paine McBrien
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 039373384X

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“A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago Tribune Updated and expanded to chart the changing urban landscape of Chicago--as well as to incorporate a section on Chicago’s campus architecture, including works by Rem Koolhaas at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Frank Lloyd Wright at the University of Chicago--the second edition of this popular handbook is a perfect companion for walking tours and an excellent source of background information for exploring the internationally acclaimed architecture of Chicago. Over 100 highlights of downtown Chicago are covered, from Michigan Avenue to the riverfront to the Loop, with accompanying maps, a glossary of architectural terms, and an index of architects and buildings.

Author : Stefanos Polyzoides
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780910413534

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Essays, drawings, plans, and over 200 black-and-white photographs document the courtyard housing in Los Angeles. The style, expressed in both grand and humble dwellings, was at its height in the 1920's and 1930's, but is still around to provide privacy and greenspace in the dense urban area. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR