Glitter stucco & dumpster diving : reflections on building production in the vernacular city / John Chase.

Main entry:

Chase, John, 1953-

Title & Author:

Glitter stucco & dumpster diving : reflections on building production in the vernacular city / John Chase.

Publication:

Description:

xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

The Haymarket series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239).
pt. 1. The Southern California home as commodity. The stucco box (with John Beach) ; Build your castle upon the trash: the making of mountaingate -- pt. 2. Illusion and delusion in Los Angeles. Finding Los Angeles in the movies, finding the movies in Los Angeles ; How can I miss you when you won't go away?: convention versus invention and the survival of period revival in Southern California ; Knocking off the knock-offs -- pt. 3. Las Vegas. Pirates! Volcanoes! Neon!: welcome to the capitol of non-glamour! (with Frances Anderton) -- pt. 4. Personal space. A curmudgeon's guide to urban living: paranoia, pagoda and pirate cave ; Trashy space, trashy behavior and trashy people -- pt. 5. Classifying and evaluating building production. The typology of building production ; Duty and the beast: the representative and the lovable in the preservation of the recent past ; You are what you buy: the consumerist imperative in American building production.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

1859848079
9781859848074

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Haymarket series.

Glitter stucco and dumpster diving

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212603
Call No.: NA44.C487.A35 2000
Status: Available

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