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Book Crestwood Hills

Download or read book Crestwood Hills written by Cory Buckner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crestwood Hill is like no other place in the vast metropolis of L.A. - its history is the result of the singular optimism that defined Southern California in the post-WW2 era. A handful of the region's optimists banded together to form a cooperative intent on building a utopian community. And they did. Author Cory Buckner follows the Mutual Housing Association as it purchased the land, designed and built the houses for its members and faced mounting difficulties establishing a truly communal community.

Book Garrett Eckbo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marc Treib
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780520207790
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Garrett Eckbo written by Marc Treib and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man and his work are given an appreciative investigation in Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living a detailed and elegant study that features more than sixty of his projects - many published here for the first time. Marc Treib examines the aesthetic formation of Eckbo's manner; and by implication, the broader field of landscape architecture since the 1930s. Dorothee Imbert writes of Eckbo's social vision, noting his belief that ultimately landscape design is "the arrangement of environments for people". The book includes an afterword by Garrett Eckbo, a memoir by photographer Julius Shulman, a biographical and professional chronology, and a bibliography of publications by and about the landscape architect and his contemporaries.

Book Brentwood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Loomis
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780738556215
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Brentwood written by Jan Loomis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future Brentwood began to change more than a century ago when 300 wild acres of brushy canyons and rabbit and coyote habitat along with sheep-grazed mesas were contributed to the cause of needy veteran soldiers. Landowners Sen. John P. Jones of Nevada and Arcadia Bandini de Baker turned the land over to the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The Pacific branch of this national hospice organization opened its doors to patients in 1888. Soon families and staff began to purchase lots and build homes near the gates. Businesses began to open to service the new residents. Through the late 20th century, this western area of the city of Los Angeles became known for beautiful neighborhoods, movie star residents, and a relaxed lifestyle--it became Brentwood.

Book Memories about the Development of the Crestwood Hills in Brentwood  Calif

Download or read book Memories about the Development of the Crestwood Hills in Brentwood Calif written by Ray Siegel and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transcription of an apparent self-initiated taping of Siegel's memories about the beginning (after WWII) and evolution of a Brentwood housing community called Crestwood Hills. There is much information about the operation and management of community, in which a group called the Mutual Housing Association played a big part.

Book Outside In

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jocelyn Gibbs
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2015-03-01
  • ISBN : 1606064517
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Outside In written by Jocelyn Gibbs and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to housing tracts, multi-use complexes, and parks and master plans for cities. Working in the wake of the first generation of avant-garde architects in Southern California and riding the postwar building boom, their firm, Smith and Williams, developed a pragmatic modernism that, through remarkable planning and design, integrated landscapes with buildings and decisively shaped the modern vocabulary of architecture in Los Angeles. Through a breathtaking array of images, Outside In unveils the core of Smith and Williams’s architectural practice. Their most influential designs, the authors show, are compositions of balanced opposites: shelter and openness, private and public, restraint and exuberance, light and shadow. Smith and Williams created spaciousness in their buildings by layering spaces and manipulating the relationship between structure and landscape. This spaciousness expressed modern ideas about the relationship of architecture to environment, of building to site, and, ultimately, of outside to in.

Book Overdrive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wim de Wit
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1606061283
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Overdrive written by Wim de Wit and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition's narratives, including Los Angeles's physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region's influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects' pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies. The related exhibition will be held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to July 21, 2013.

Book Los Angeles Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

Book Dwell

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Dwell written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.

Book Looking for Los Angeles

Download or read book Looking for Los Angeles written by Charles G. Salas and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Looking for Los Angeles 12 contributors present their responses to the world's newest major city. A variety of perspectives and approaches are covered. The text balances the importance of place with the importance of culture.

Book Los Angeles Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

Book Board of Contract Appeals Decisions

Download or read book Board of Contract Appeals Decisions written by United States. Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full texts of Armed Services and othr Boards of Contract Appeals decisions on contracts appeals.

Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Houses for All Regions

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Institute of Architecture
  • Publisher : Images Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-25
  • ISBN : 1864705175
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Houses for All Regions written by American Institute of Architecture and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houses for all Regions: CRAN Residential Collection is the first in a series on international residential architecture produced by The IMAGES Publishing Group in partnership with the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The projects are divided into four climate zones: arid/semi-arid, temperate, arctic/cold-climate and tropical/sub-tropical, and each illustrates how architects adapt their designs to accommodate the challenges posed by the local topography and variations in climate. Containing cutting-edge residential designs by leading architects from across the world, including North America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe, and featuring rarely seen images, Houses for all Regions: CRAN Residential Collection underlines the sensitivity of today’s architects to the natural environment, as well as the care and attention paid to interior design and everyday living.