Los Angeles

Los Angeles
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area.

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1626400555

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"Since its first publication in 1965, The Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles has explored every rich potency of the often relentless, but sometimes relenting L.A. cityscape. It now contains ninety-six sections organized in thirteen geographic chapters, boasting over 200 new additions to over thousands of entries cataloging every crease of Los Angeles County's metropolitan sheath"--

An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles

An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles
Author: Robert Winter
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781423608936

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Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Architecture in Los Angeles

Architecture in Los Angeles
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1985
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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"The most comprehensive guide over published to the man-made environment of Southern California. Contains hundreds of entries plus notes on city history, freeways, murals, and historic preservation. Also, a comprehensive bibliography, a photographic history of Los Angeles architecture, and an unequalled style glossary. David Gebhard and Robert Winter deftly pilot the enthusiast through one of the richest architectural regions in the world. With perception, understanding, and wit, the authors point out the classical monuments, the tacky copies, the sublime, and the bizarre. They lead us to the famous buildings and through the backstreets and alleys to find the unsung treasures. Loaded with maps and photographs."--Back cover.

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781586853082

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Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Pocket Guide To Los Angeles Architecture

Pocket Guide To Los Angeles Architecture
Author: Judith Paine Mcbrien
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2009-03-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393731903

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This guidebook organizes 100 architectural highlights into three walkable downtown tours and two side trips. Sprawling Los Angeles may never be considered a walking city, but this concise handbook organizes one hundred must-see architectural highlights into three downtown walkable tours and two delightful side trips. It covers such classic sights as Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and the Griffith Observatory; modernist landmarks such as the Schindler House; creative reuses such as the hip Standard Hotel, once the Superior Oil Building; and the latest new public and cultural buildings, including Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Hall and Richard Meier’s Getty Center. Each entry summarizes the structure’s history and significance and is illustrated with original drawings that capture the essence of the place.

Los Angeles in the 1930s

Los Angeles in the 1930s
Author: WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520268830

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Previously published: New York: Hastings House, 1941, under the title Los Angeles: a guide to the city and its environs, as part of the American guide series.