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The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom.
Case study houses (1945-1966)
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The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom.
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Bevan Davies: New York, 1975
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This is Bevan Davies‘s second monograph in the NZ Library Series. New York, 1975 is a powerful companion book to Los Angeles, 1976. Both volumes present comprehensive important bodies of work that was influential, widely exhibited and collected at the time it was made. However, it has not published in book form until now. New York, 1975 opens with an insightful essay by(...)
Photography monographs
January 2024
Bevan Davies: New York, 1975
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This is Bevan Davies‘s second monograph in the NZ Library Series. New York, 1975 is a powerful companion book to Los Angeles, 1976. Both volumes present comprehensive important bodies of work that was influential, widely exhibited and collected at the time it was made. However, it has not published in book form until now. New York, 1975 opens with an insightful essay by Joshua Chuang.
Photography monographs
L.A. now - volume one
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Conceived by Richard Koshalek, L.A. Now is a collaborative design initiative to focus creativity on downtown Los Angeles and provide the foundation for its future development. L.A. Now brings together the work of UCLA architecture students under the direction of studio leader Thom Mayne (Morphosis), CalArts Graphic Design students, and Art Center film and photography(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 2002, Berkeley
L.A. now - volume one
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Conceived by Richard Koshalek, L.A. Now is a collaborative design initiative to focus creativity on downtown Los Angeles and provide the foundation for its future development. L.A. Now brings together the work of UCLA architecture students under the direction of studio leader Thom Mayne (Morphosis), CalArts Graphic Design students, and Art Center film and photography students and others in two distinctive, lavishly illustrated books.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Kolaj Magazine exists to report on the International Collage Community. In this issue’s round-up of collage news, we report on Australian collagist Steve Tierney‘s new large scale collages that draw inspiration from photojournalism of the 1950s and 60s; Finnish collagist Riikka Fransila‘s large, 3D collage on the walls of Akateeminen Kirjakauppa in Helsinki; and Los(...)
Kolaj #40
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Kolaj Magazine exists to report on the International Collage Community. In this issue’s round-up of collage news, we report on Australian collagist Steve Tierney‘s new large scale collages that draw inspiration from photojournalism of the 1950s and 60s; Finnish collagist Riikka Fransila‘s large, 3D collage on the walls of Akateeminen Kirjakauppa in Helsinki; and Los Angeles artist Wendy Tigerman‘s collaborative book of dog collages.
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On a trip to Los Angeles in 2003, Munich-born Veronika Kellndorfer went to see the icons of the International Style: buildings by Eames, Schindler, Wright, and Neutra. They inpired a complex of works entitled Exterior and Interior Dreams--Blueprints for Modern Living, whose handmade models, silkscreened glass, projections and resulting layered spaces are all documented(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2006, Ostfildern-Ruit
Veronika Kellndorfer : exterior and interior dreams
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On a trip to Los Angeles in 2003, Munich-born Veronika Kellndorfer went to see the icons of the International Style: buildings by Eames, Schindler, Wright, and Neutra. They inpired a complex of works entitled Exterior and Interior Dreams--Blueprints for Modern Living, whose handmade models, silkscreened glass, projections and resulting layered spaces are all documented here in a design inspired by circuit diagrams.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This reprint is an exhibition catalog, which documents a collection of furniture designed by Schindler for Basia Gingold, a Los Angeles doctor, who between 1940 and 1950 commissioned furniture for her residence as well as for her offices. In addition to photographs of the furniture, the catalog also includes drawings for the interior of her residence with elevations and(...)
RM Schindler: the Gingold commissions
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This reprint is an exhibition catalog, which documents a collection of furniture designed by Schindler for Basia Gingold, a Los Angeles doctor, who between 1940 and 1950 commissioned furniture for her residence as well as for her offices. In addition to photographs of the furniture, the catalog also includes drawings for the interior of her residence with elevations and floor plans of two office designs.
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October 2008
Interior Design
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C'est un voyage d'est en ouest au coeur de la création graphique américaine auquel nous invite Michel Bouvet et son équipe. C'est aussi un parcours historique balisé de trois étapes symboliques : New York, avec Seymour Chwast; Sacramento pour la revue «Emigre», lieu d'expression incontournable des nouveaux courants de la typo graphie contemporaine; San Francisco et Los(...)
East Coast / West Coast : graphistes aux États-Unis
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C'est un voyage d'est en ouest au coeur de la création graphique américaine auquel nous invite Michel Bouvet et son équipe. C'est aussi un parcours historique balisé de trois étapes symboliques : New York, avec Seymour Chwast; Sacramento pour la revue «Emigre», lieu d'expression incontournable des nouveaux courants de la typo graphie contemporaine; San Francisco et Los Angeles où culture latino-américaine et asiatique rencontrent la révolution technologique.
Graphic Design and Typography
First office: nine essays
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic(...)
First office: nine essays
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic space for these uncompromising designers to re-write the boundaries of conceptual architecture.
Architectural Theory
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic(...)
Bureau spectacular: the politics of flatness
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic space for these uncompromising designers to re-write the boundaries of conceptual architecture.
Architectural Theory
SOFTlab: identity crisis
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic(...)
SOFTlab: identity crisis
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic space for these uncompromising designers to re-write the boundaries of conceptual architecture.
Architectural Theory