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Notes from another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape
Title
Notes from another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape / edited by Anthony Fontenot.
ISBN
9780262046657
0262046652
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
294 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 26 cm
Notes
Portrait of Gregory Ain laid in.
Summary
"This book profiles the modernist Californian architect Gregory Ain (1908-1988)-specifically his housing projects-through a selection of essays by historians and critics, and by imagery both archival and contemporary"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Common ground / Nicholas Olsberg
Social housing : shared space and the urban pattern / Anthony Fontenot
Gregory Ain : under surveillance / Anthony Denzer
Step-back planning gives privacy, 1940
Arts & Architecture's Designs for Postwar Living, jury comments, 1943 / Gregory Ain
The flexible house faces reality, 1951 / Gregory Ain
Arts & Architecture's Second Annual Small House Competition, jury comments, 1945 / Frederick L. Langhorst, J. R. Davidson, Gregory Ain, John L. Rex, and Charles Eames
Subdivision by Gregory Ain, A.I.A., architect for Park Planned Homes, 1945 / Gregory Ain
Form follows faction : invitation to an architectural faculty to reexamine and question the basis of today's architectural training, 1965 / Gregory Ain
In search of theory, 1966 / Gregory Ain
"What I believe ..." : a statement of architectural principles, 1955 / Esther McCoy
Notes for a lecture on Gregory Ain, 1982 / Esther McCoy
Dunsmuir Flats, 1937, Los Angeles, CA
Park Planned Homes, 1947, Altadena, CA
Avenel Cooperative, 1948, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA
Mar Vista Housing, 1948, Mar Vista, Los Angeles, CA
Community Homes Cooperative, 1946-48.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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