Main entry:

Winter, Robert, 1924-2019, author.

Title & Author:

The California bungalow / by Robert Winter ; with a foreword by David Gebhard.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1980.
©1980

Description:

95 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Series:

California architecture and architects ; number 1

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92) and index.
This book provides an architectural and social history of the turn-of-the-century, craftsman-style American dream house in which an owner of modest means could live simply and artistically. California provided the perfect landscape -- scenically, economically, and socially -- for the proliferation of examples ranging from do-it-yourselfers and mass-produced builders' cottages to the sophisticated artifacts of architects such as the Greene and Greene brothers and the Heinemans.

Summary:

"This is the first book on bungalows since the phenomenon of the early twentieth century collapsed in the Great Depression. Robert Winter sees these sometimes not-so-modest digs as documents of social history. The American dream has generally been based on the idea of a single-family dwelling equipped with all the latest conveniences and set in a garden, however small. California provided the perect landscape, scenically, economically and socially for the proliferation of houses that the careful observer of California culture, Mary Austin, called "as indigenous to the soil as if they had grown up out of it." Robert Winter, who lives in a bungalow that is on the National Register of Historic Places, is Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College, Los Angeles."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

0912158859 (paperback)
9780912158853 (paperback)

Subject:

Bungalows California.
Bungalows Californie.
Bungalows
California

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Gebhard, David
California architecture and architects ; no. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 165
Call No.: 6936; ID:87-B10915
Status: Available