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

Jencks, Charles (editor)

ISBN 10: 1854902067 / ISBN 13: 9781854902061

Published by Academy Editions, London, United Kingdom, 1993

About this Item

A crisp, clean Near Fine copy with a touch of foxing to the top edges in a bright, clean, Near Fine mylar-protected lightly rubbed dust jacket. 144 pp., with over 100 illustrations mostly in color. Features work by Frank Gehry, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Charles Moore and many others.

Seller Inventory # 007970

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heteropolis: Los Angeles, The Riots and the Strange Beauty of Hetero-Architecture
• Publisher: Academy Editions, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1854902067
• ISBN 13: 9781854902061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Architecture and 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.