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The architecture of affordable housing
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ISBN: 0520087585 9780520087583 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

Contemporary California houses.
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ISBN: 0714838713 9780714838717 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Phaidon

The provisional city : Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism.
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ISBN: 0262032767 9780262032766 Year: 2000 Publisher: London MIT Press

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"The provisional city is one of constant erasure and eruption. Through what Dana Cuff calls a "convulsive urban act," developers both public and private demolish an urban site and disband its inhabitants, replacing it with some vision of a better life that leaves no trace of the former structure. Architects bring their own utopian dreams to the process. In this book Cuff examines those convulsions through two underestimated dimensions of architectural and urban form: scale and the politics of property. Scale is intimately tied to degree of disruption: the larger a project's scale, the greater the upheaval. As both culture and geography, real estate plays an equally significant role in urban formation." "Focusing on Los Angeles, Cuff looks at urban transformation through the architecture and land development of large-scale residential projects. She explores five cases that span the period from the 1930s, when federal support for slum clearance and public housing caused convulsions near downtown, to a huge 1990s' mixed-use development on one of Los Angeles's last remaining wetlands. The story takes us from the refined modernist architecture of Richard Neutra to the self-conscious populism of the New Urbanism. The cases illuminate the relationship of housing architecture to issues of race, class, urban design, geography, and political ideology."--Jacket.


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Los Angeles modernism revisited : Houses by Neutra, Schindler, Ain, and contemporaries
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ISBN: 9783038601616 3038601616 Year: 2019 Publisher: Zürich Park Books

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Two Austrian-born designers have left their indelible mark on California?s residential architecture of the 1930s to 1960s: Richard Neutra (1892?1970) and Rudolph M. Schindler (1887?1953) combined modern form and inventive construction with new materials to create a truly modern vision of living that remains inspirational to the present day.00This new book features twenty famous and lesser known houses from that period, designed by the two pioneers and other architects that were influenced by Neutra?s and Schindler?s ideas. All are marked by highly economical use and outstanding quality of space, a minimalist aesthetic, and by their ideal adaption to climatic conditions. They are monuments of a period as well as timeless models for contemporary and future architecture.00The images by photographer David Schreyer show the buildings in their present state as a commodity of highest quality that can be, and should be, altered to meet today?s changed demands to a living space. Andreas Nierhaus?s texts, based on interviews, explore the relationship of the present inhabitants to their homes and what they mean to them. Together, the authors offer uniquely intimate insights into a sophisticated way of life still too little known outside California.

Case study houses.
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ISBN: 3822864129 9783822864128 Year: 2002 Publisher: Köln Taschen

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The case study house program (1945 - 1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and international - both during the program's existence and even to this day.

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Architecture, Domestic --- International style (Architecture) --- Housing, Single family --- Architecture domestique --- Style international (Architecture) --- Maisons individuelles --- Case studies --- Etudes de cas --- Maison résidentielle --- Abell, Thornton Montaigne --- Beadle, Alfred Newman --- Bernardi, Théodore C. --- Buff Iii, Conrad --- Campbell, John Carden --- Davidson, Julius Ralph --- Eames, Charles --- Ellwood, Craig --- Emmons, Frederick Earl --- Fong, Allen Don --- Hensman, Donald Charles --- Jones, Archibald Quincy --- Killingsworth, Edward --- Knorr, Don Robert --- Koenig, Pierre --- Neutra, Richard Joseph --- Nomland, Kemper --- Nomland, Kemper, Jr --- Rapson, Ralph --- Rex, John Léon --- Saarinen, Eero --- Smith, Waugh --- Smith, Whitney Rowland --- Soriano, Raphael S. --- Spaulding, Summer --- Straub, Calvin C. --- Thorne, Beveley David --- Walker, Rodney --- Wong, Worley K. --- Wurster, William Wilson --- Californie --- Los angeles --- CSH --- Case Study Houses --- 1951-1975 --- 72.036 --- Verenigde Staten --- Woningbouw ; 1945-1966 ; Case Study Houses (CSH) --- Woningbouw ; plannen en ontwerpen ; 20ste eeuw ; prototypes --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; Modernisme --- Architectuur ; California ; 20ste eeuw --- Architectuur ; 20ste eeuw ; Internationale stijl --- 728.3 --- casestudies --- architectuur 20e eeuw --- woningen --- 728 --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 20ste Eeuw (architectuur) --- Modernisme (architectuur) --- Modernistische architectuur --- Woningbouw ; eengezinshuizen --- burgerlijke architectuur, woonhuizen --- Architecture, Modern --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Single family homes --- Single family houses --- Dwellings --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Case studies. --- Architecture, Domestic - California, Southern - Case studies. --- International style (Architecture) - California, Southern - Case studies. --- Housing, Single family - California, Southern - Case studies. --- ARCHITECTURE --- ARCHITECTURE DOMESTIQUE --- LOS ANGELES (ETATS-UNIS) --- ASPECT ECONOMIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS --- 1945 - ....

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