I live in Southern California and am interested in architecture. So I figured I should order this book.
Its core period is one I have mixed feelings about. There were certainly some impressive buildings built. There was also a lot of insipid work, especially dull commercial buildings. This book offers up a mix. There are some well known gems. There are some lesser known buildings worth exploring. And there are some building I consider uninspired and generic.
The book also struggles with its boundaries. The author somewhat apologizes for including Lloyd Wright's 1928 Samuel-Novarro House, but not for including earlier houses by that architect's father.
But it's a guidebook, and you can find some new buildings to explore with no obligation to like everything the author included.
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Includes buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra, and John Lautner, as well as dozens of beautiful Mid-Century Modern buildings by lesser-known architects
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Pacific Northwest: St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bertrand Goldberg, Tacoma, WA, 1975, Photography: Darren Bradley |
Los Angeles, CA: Cinerama Dome, Welton Becket & Associates, 1963. Photography: Darren Bradley |
San Diego, CA: Salk Institute, Louis Kahn & Luis Barragán, 1963. Photography: Darren Bradley |
Organized geographically, from Washington and Oregon in the north, then south to California with San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and San Diego
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Somewhat disappointing in the fact that so many sites (about 75% of the book) are not open to the public. But then for those sites that are occasionally open for tours (such as the Eames residence and others) there is no mention of the groups/companies that arrange such tours. Those two facts make this book very limited in in its usefulness as a travel guide. I also noticed a curious omission here in Seattle - the University Unitarian Church is in the book, however *directly kitty-corner* is the outstanding award-winning Northeast Public Library (1954) by noted architect Paul Thiry. In a book where so many things are off-limits you'd think as many public places as possible would be included. I can't comment on other locales, but head-scratching omissions like that make me wonder how useful the rest of the book is. This book is a great idea and I really want to like it, but in the end it needs more substance and function.
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