Product Description

The birthplace of American modernism, Los Angeles is the epicenter for a new way of living for the last one hundred years, as manifested in its cutting-edge architecture and design. With roots in the innovative houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene & Greene, and Rudolph Schindler in the early twentieth century, this constantly evolving city became a crucible of modern living. Inspired by the International Style, architects and designers in Los Angeles developed their own individual styles with a rare sensitivity to site, landscape, and human scale. This brand of modernism, blurring the boundaries of indoors and outdoors, has since been imitated from Seattle to Sydney. Acclaimed architecture and design photographer Tim Street-Porter captures the best Modernist architecture of Los Angeles, from the seminal Neutra houses to the idiosynchratic structures by Frank Gehry. With iconic buildings by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Charles and Ray Eames, and Oscar Niemeyer, among others, L.A. Modern presents the full spectrum of Los Angeles modernism in gorgeous new color photography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48346 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-21
• Released on: 2008-10-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 248 pages

Review
"(Street-Porter) and (Ouroussoff) document some of the city's most drop-dead spreads, including those by Frank Gehry, John Launtner and Craig Ellwood." --Angeleno Interiors

"Tim Street-Porter basks in LA Modern." ~Vanity Fair

About the Author
Tim Street-Porter is an award-winning photographer who shoots for various shelter magazines. He is the author of Freestyle, Casa Mexicana, The Los Angeles House, Hollywood Style, and Los Angeles. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Nicolai Ouroussoff is the architecture critic for The New York Times.

Customer Reviews

Best Book Ever!
I purchased this book as a gift for my husband, and he says it is absolutely the "best book EVER." The pictures are amazing, the quality of the book is excellent, the architecture highlighted is forward thinking for the dates the homes were built, and overall it is providing endless inspiration for our own home. Highly recommended.

LA Modern by Tim Street Porter.
Congratulation, on a spectacular opus.
Timeless and poetic photos make this book a treasure, an unique testament of Los Angeles, view by a master photographer, Tim Street Porter. Bravo , a great gift and a must have in any library.
f.m ( ny)

From Metropolitan Home magazine
"Tim Street-Porter, a frequent Met Home contributer and one of the leading architecture photographers in America, offers up this handsomely formatted goody (perfect for an Isamu Noguchi coffee table): L.A. Modern (Rizzoli), with text and images by the British-born lensman and an introduction by Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic of the New York Times. Street-Porter, who lives in LA., is fast becoming the Julius Shulman of his generation, documenting modernist architecture with an eye that encompasses the macro forms as well as the nuance of details. The photos of homes in L.A.Modern, arranged chronologically, include extensive interior as well as exterior shots, all recent and all in color; they range from Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House of 1920 through the Schindler, Neutra, Eames and Lautner years up to Frank Gehry's landmark Schnabel House of 1989." Michael Lassell, Metropolitan Home magazine December 2008.