L.A. [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture, 1970s-1990s (English)

Edited by Stephen Phillips With contributions by Howard Coy, Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Hsinming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Franklin Israel Retrospective, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi

ISBN 10: 3037784091 / ISBN 13: 9783037784099

Published by Lars Müller Publishers, 2014

About this Item

Z : 15,2 x 22,9 cm, 6 x 9 in, 256 pages, 194 illustrations - Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affi liated cadre of architects the so-called L.A. Ten emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L. A. architecture as they remember it. Architect, historian, and educator Stephen Phillips and the students of the Cal Poly L. A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design, alongside Wim de Wit and Christopher Alexander of the Getty Research Institute, conduct the engaging series of oral history interviews.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: L.A. [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture, 1970s-1990s (English)
• Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037784091
• ISBN 13: 9783037784099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architekturgeschichte
  • Architekturtheorie
  • architecture

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Synopsis

Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affiliated cadre of architects―the so-called L.A. Ten―emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L.A. architecture as they remember it. Architect, historian, and educator Stephen Phillips and the students of the Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design, alongside Wim de Wit and Christopher Alexander of the Getty Research Institute, conduct the engaging series of oral history interviews.

About the Author

Stephen Phillips, an architect, historian and educator, is Associate Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and Founding Director of the Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.