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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.
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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