Experimental Architecture In Los Angeles - Hardcover

Betsky, Aaron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847814246 ISBN 13: 9780847814244

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1992

Synopsis

Experimental Architecture in Los Angeles presents, for the first time, the recent work of twenty-two of the most innovative, creative, and challenging young architects on the West Coast of the United States. Each architect, in one way or another, is the spiritual child of Frank Gehry and of the second generation of California architects, such as Morphosis and Eric Owen Moss, who followed in his footsteps. Gehry expresses his support for this third generation of architects in his introduction to this volume.
Each architect or firm--among them Michele Saee, AKS Runo, Josh Schweitzer, Guthrie + Buresh, Koning Eizenberg, and COA--is presented in an individual chapter with lavish illustrations accompanied by a brief outline and analysis of the work. Three critical essays, each addressing a different aspect of these architects' relationship to the West Coast, and to Los Angeles in particular, make this volume an indispensable guide to the latest developments in one of architecture's most exciting centers of activity.

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From Library Journal

This slim volume, documenting a series of discussions organized by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design in 1988 and 1989, focuses on the current work of 22 young practitioners on the West Coast. A separate chapter is devoted to each architect or firm, while three critical essays attempt to define the social, political, and cultural forces that link these designers to one another. As Frank Gehry notes in his introduction, the quality of imagination and accomplishment of the architects represented is "pretty uneven." At its best, the work is witty, complex, and exciting; at its worst, it is mannered and pedantic. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings, this is recommended reading for followers of contemporary American architecture.
- H. Ward Jandl, National Park Svce., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0847814246
• ISBN 13: 9780847814244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160