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BOOK REVIEWS
Click on the following links to read about these recent books, reviewed by SAHSCC's Newsletter Editor, Julie D. Taylor Hon. AIA.
Atlas of Never Built Architecture by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin
Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling by Chris Nichols with Adriene Biondo
An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self by Sam Hall Kaplan
City of Dreams: Los Angeles Interiors by Annie Kelly
Craig Frazier | Drawn by Craig Frazier
California Houses: Creativity in Context by Michael Webb
Layered Landscapes: The Photographic Art of Jenny Okun by Jenny Okun
Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist by Brad Dunning
Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles by James Sanders, FAIA
Notes from Another Los Angeles: Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape by Anthony Fontenot
Ed Fella: A Life in Images by David Cabianca
The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: by Bruce Stahl and Shari Stahl Gronwald
The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon by Bruce Stahl and Shari Stahl Gronwald with Kim Cross
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect by Victoria Kastner
All the Buildings in Los Angeles: That I’ve Drawn So Far by James Gulliver Hancock
Designing Hollywood Homes: Movie Houses by Stephen Shadley with Patrick Pacheco
Michele Saee: Philosophy and Process by Michele Saee; introduction by Claude Parent
Preserving Los Angeles: How Historic Places Can Transform America’s Cities by Ken Bernstein
Études—The Poetry of Dreams + Other Fragments by John Marx, AIA
Los Angeles Today—City of Dreams: Architecture and Design by Tim Street-Porter; edited by Annie Kelly
Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles by Jack Esterson, Craig Kellogg, Sherri Littlefield, and Ashok Sinha
Built by Women: Los Angeles 2020 Map and Poster by Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View by Janna Ireland
Los Angeles Modernism Revisited: Houses by Neutra, Schindler, Ain, and Contemporaries by David Schreyer and Andreas Nierhaus
Surfacedesign: Material Landscapes by James A. Lord, FASLA
New West by Wolfgang Wagener, AIA, RIBA, and Leslie Erganian
Site: Marmol Radziner in the Landscape by Leo Marmol, FAIA, and Ron Radziner, FAIA; foreword by Mona Simpson
The Cinderella Homes of Jean Vandruff: Fairy Tale Tracts in the Suburbs by Chris Lukather; introduction by Jean Vandruff
Ehrlich Yanai: Outside-In—New California Modernism by Nancy Griffin; Introduction by Zahid Sardar
Bernard Trainor: Ground Studio Landscapes by Bernard Trainor
Roland E. Coate by Marc Appleton, Bret Parsons, and Steve Vaught
City of Angels: Houses and Gardens of Los Angeles by Jennifer Ash Rudick
The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends by Scott Shrader
Dry Gardens: High Style for Low Water Gardens by Daniel Nolan
Hollywood Modern: Houses of the Stars by Michael Stern and Alan Hess
Mod Mirage: The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho Mirage by Melissa Riche
The California Missions by Rubén G. Mendoza
Tales from The Strip: A Century in the Fast Lane by Van Gordon Sauter, Robert Landau, and Frans Evenhuis
California Captured: Mid-Century Modern Architecture, Marvin Rand by Emily Bills, Sam Lubell, and Pierluigi Serraino
Architects’ Houses by Michael Webb, Hon. AIA/LA
Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon by Stephen Gee
Urban Hallucinations: Koning Eizenberg Architecture by Julie Eizenberg, FAIA
A Birdhouse in Paradise: William Mellenthin and the San Fernando Valley Ranch Homes by Chris Lukather
Making L.A. Modern: Craig Ellwood—Myth, Man, Designer by Edited by Michael Boyd;
Aaron G. Green: Organic Architecture Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright by Randolph C. Henning
The American Idea of Home: Conversations About Architecture and Design by Bernard Friedman
American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition by Peter J. Holliday
Spectacular Illumination: Neon Los Angeles, 1925-1965 by Tom Zimmerman with J. Eric Lynxwiler
Gordon B. Kaufmann by Marc Appleton
Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide (West Coast USA) by Sam Lubell
Los Angeles Central Library: A History of Its Art and Architecture by Arnold Schwartzman and Stephen Gee
Hollywood Interiors: Style and Design in Los Angeles by Anthony Iannacci
William Krisel’s Palm Springs: The Language of Modernism by Chris Menrad and Heidi Creighton
Improvisations on the Land: Houses of Fernau + Hartman by Richard Fernau, FAIA
Crestwood Hills: The Chronicle of a Modern Utopia by Cory Buckner
An Eames Anthology by Daniel Ostroff
Neutra Furniture: The Body and the Senses by Barbara Lamprecht
Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the Warner Murals: Celebrating 150 Years by Tom Teicholz
Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public 25th Anniversary Edition by Doug Suisman, FAIA
Shingle Style: Living in San Francisco’s Brown Shingles by Lucia Howard and David Weingarten
Gardens Are for Living: Design Inspiration for Outdoor Spaces by Judy Kameon
Escape Home: Rebuilding a Life after the Anschluss—A Family Memoir by Charles Paterson and Carrie Paterson
Adolf Loos: A Private Portrait by Claire Beck Loos
Schindler, Kings Road, and Southern California Modernism by Robert Sweeney and Judith Sheine
Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch House by Jocelyn Gibbs and Nicholas Olsberg
Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home by By Volker M. Welter
Edward Durell Stone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect by Hicks Stone
SCI-Arc Gallery: 2002-10 by Dana Hutt
Cityscapes: San Francisco and its Buildings by John King
Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis by Sam Lubell and Douglas Woods; Foreword by Judy McKee
Classic Homes of Los Angeles by Douglas Woods
Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970 by Thomas S. Hines
The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond by David Swan
Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial by Robert Sweeney; introduction by Marc Appleton
Living West: New Residential Architecture in Southern California by Sam Lubell
Colcord Home by Bret Parsons
Gregory Ain: The Modern Home as Social Commentary by Anthony Denzer
Santa Monica Pier: A Century on the Last of the Pleasure Piers by James Harris; foreword by Robert Redford
Hearst's San Simeon: The Gardens and the Land by Victoria Kastner
The Mediterranean House in America by Lauren Weiss Bricker
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