Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970

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An authoritative survey of the masters of twentieth-century modernist architecture in Los Angeles. This revisionist study explores the history of modernist architecture in Greater Los Angeles from the early twentieth century to the 1970s, specializing in both its regional and international contexts. Thomas Hines critically analyzes the concepts of modernism and regionalism and begins his exploration by contrasting the turn-of-the-century Craftsman work of Charles and Henry Greene with the rationalist modernism in their up to date Irving Gill and the expressionist modernism of Frank Lloyd Wright and his son Lloyd Wright. The book re-interprets the modernist variations of Wright’s disciple Rudolph Schindler and the International Style of his up to date Richard Neutra, in addition to in their followers: Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, and Harwell Harris. The minimalist Case Study House program is contrasted with the sensuous modernism of John Lautner and with the massive-scale modernism of William Pereira and Welton Becket. Hines ends the book within the early 1970s, as modernism started to confront the challenge of the post-modernist critique. A personal epilogue reflects at the writer’s exploration of Los Angeles modernism from the past due 1960s to 2009.

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