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A seminal study of the architecture of Los Angeles in the decade when the city came of age. The built environment reflected the optimism of the time and the place, where streamlined public architecture, the freedom and mobility of homeowners, modernist work likes Neutra and Schindler combined in the glow of the Hollywood Dream Machine to create the fabric of Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles in the Thirties: 1931-1941
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Hennessey & Ingalls, Los Angeles, 1975
ISBN 10: 0912158980
ISBN 13: 9780912158983
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Seller: modern-ISM, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. A clean, crisp Fine copy of the scarce cloth hardcover revised and enlarged second edition. Signed on the title page by the legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman whose work appears throughout. Unclipped dust jacket has some edge wrinkling, else Near Fine. 185 pp., profusely illustrated, notes, bibliography, and index. Features the work of Gregory Ain, Robert E. Alexander, Welton Becket, J. R. Davidson, John Entenza, Paul Frankl, Charles and Henry Greene, Myron C. Hunt, A. Quincy Jones, Gordon B. Kaufmann, Paul Laszlo, John Lautner, S. Charles Lee, William Lescaze, Richard Neutra, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Rudolph M. Schindler, Julius Shulman, Raphael Soriano, Kem Weber, Paul R. Williams, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lloyd Wright, Walter Wurdeman, and others. Copy of book review by Robert Kirsch published in the Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 1975 laid in. Also laid in is a review of the exhibit on which the book was based at the U.C. Santa Barbara Art Galleries by John Pastier also published in the L. A. Times on April 14, 1975. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 009489