Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide (West Coast USA) by Sam Lubell ; photography by Darren Bradley
Here’s a new book to
put in your glove compartment. This nifty volume covers 254 Mid-Century Modern
sites from Seattle to San Diego, with lively text and new photography. Detailed
history and appraisal includes notes on visiting, or if you can just admire
from curbside. Maps, detailed visitor info, glossary, and architect directory
make this a truly useful guide. Its comprehensive nature includes the widely
noted and lionized Modernists as well as “a much larger crop of equally
talented, but now-forgotten architects.” Contemporary color photos emphatically
convey the architecture’s current vitality. This book is a needed addition to
your library—whether you wind your way along Route 1, or travel the coast in
your armchair. Phaidon Press, 2016, 376 pages, softcover, $35.
