Heteropolis: Los Angeles The Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture

Jencks, Charles

ISBN 10: 1854902067 / ISBN 13: 9781854902061

Published by Academy Editions/Ernst & Sohn, London, 1993

About this Item

First edition. Published London: Academy Editions/Ernst & Sohn, 1993, first printing. Self-cover 4to. wrappers, 8 5/8" x 11." 144 p., illustrated with color photos. Very good, clean, attractive copy.

Seller Inventory # 003693

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heteropolis: Los Angeles The Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture
• Publisher: Academy Editions/Ernst & Sohn, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854902067
• ISBN 13: 9781854902061
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Dimensions: Quarto ~30 cm / 12" tall Quarto, Approximately 30 centimetres, or 12 inches tall
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture & Design

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Synopsis

The brilliant Charles Jencks turns his laser-like eye on the architecture and urban texture of Los Angeles in the mid 1990's in this facinating book, first published in 1993. Jencks posits Los Angeles as ground zero for heterophilia, the love of the different; he infers from this the idea of hetero-achitecture, an architecture that combines the traditions of Southern California modernism with realities of the new city: the city of immigrants, gangs, fear and riots. Jencks's view is refreshingly sunny.