Essays by Esther McCoy, Thomas S. Hines, Helen Searing, Kevin Starr, Elizabeth A. I Smith, Thomas Hine, Reyner Banham, and Dolores Hayden Southern California's Case Study houses constitute an essential chapter in the history of modern architecture in America. This book documents "Arts & Architecture magazine's sponsorship of some of the most important architects of the region and the generation - Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood, A. Quincy Jones, Pierre Koenig, Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, and Eero Saarinen, among others - reflecting an unprecedented commitment to reinventing the house as a way of redefining living. The program consisted of thirty-six experimental prototypes designed, and the majority built, between 1945 and 1966. The architects and the magazine shared a commitment to experimenting with materials and techniques, rationalizing plan and construction and integrating house, furnishings, and landscape into a coherent whole. Yet a number of the essayists in this book suggest that what made the houses distinctive and influential was not so much their International-Style modernism, but how that style was domesticated and scaled to the single-family home - and how it forecast what is now called the California lifestyle. Entries documenting each of the Case Study projects and many previously unpublished photographs by such well-known photographers as Julius Shulman and Marvin Rand are included. The legacy of the Case Study House program is then addressed by six contemporary architects who were commissioned by The Museum of Contemporary Art to execute new designs for a decidedly different present. The book includes drawings, plans, and photographs of projects by Itsuko Hasegawa,Craig Hodgetts, Toyo Ito Robert Mangurian, Eric Owen Moss, and Adele Naude Santos, along with their statements about the work. Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Distributed by The MIT Press.

Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses

Arts & Photography

Smith, Elizabeth A.T.

McCoy, Esther

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Mit Pr

Distributed for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. With essays by Mike Davis, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Richard Sennett, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Gwendolyn Wright.

Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm

Architecture

By examining the recent practice in architecture that has its roots in early-20th-century ideals of machines for living, this text demonstrates how four contemporary international architects used technology to advance structural expression to evoke an almost nostalgic image of the machine. The book addresses the fundamental art and craft of building in the post-machine age and traces the evolution of this practice, before discussing the similarities amongst the four architects. A section is devoted to each practice which contains an architect's profile and a general description of all four projects.

Techno Architecture (4x4 series)

Science & Math

Technology

Thames&Hudson

A comprehensive study of the world's most significant architects and structures of the twentieth century focuses on the complex relationship between innovation and tradition, as well as the impact of technology on architecture. 10,000 first printing. BOMC, QPB, &amp; History.

At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture

Koshalek, Richard

Zeynep, Celik

Harry N. Abrams

“The spirit of Schindler warms the works of all of us who were touched by his life.”
—Frank O. Gehry
 “He is the most important architect in California of his day and deserves highly the attention given to him at last by his hometown, Vienna.”
—Philip Johnson
 With such masterworks as the Schindler-Chace House and the Lovell Beach House in California, the Vienna-born modernist R. M. Schindler (1887–1953) is recognized as one of the most innovative architects of the 20th century. Nearly 50 years after his death, admiration for his breathtakingly original houses and apartment buildings is at an all-time peak. Containing many never-published drawings and photographs and spanning Schindler’s early years in Vienna, his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright, and his bold contributions to West Coast modernism, this book—which accompanies the first major Schindler retrospective—offers the most comprehensive view of his genius to date.

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler

History

Darling, Michael

Americas

The paperback edition published by The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) and The MIT Press.

MIT Press]

Cindy Sherman: Retrospective

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Sherman, Cindy

Cruz, Amada

Photography & Video

Museum of Contemporary Art

In Kerry James Marshall's Rythm Mastr comic strip, an urban superhero battles the forces of evil using a combination of futuristic and traditional African accoutrements. This graphic narrativization is a stylistic update of Marshall's best-known work, monumental paintings of African-American subjects based on the traditional genre of narrative history painting. In One True Thing, the catalogue accompaniment to Marshall's first solo show in five years, the artist presents a multi-media range of new work that demonstrates the evolution of his ideas and his ongoing commitment to issues of construction and interpretation of meaning. The body of work Marshall is developing for the book and exhibition centers on the idea of ambiguity surrounding the representation of African Americans in our culture. Stemming in part from the Rythm Mastr comic strip project first developed for the 2000 Carnegie International exhibition, the monumental paintings in this new body of work portray figures in the urban landscape of the South Side of Chicago, inspired by the tradition of old-master paintings, especially the townscapes of Canaletto. Marshall is also creating several photographic series depicting urban settings along with a group of figurative works based on African tribal sculptures.

Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing: Meditations On Black Aesthetics

Mills, Charles

Molesworth, Helen

Marshall, Kerry James

Fitzpatrick, Robert

Donaldson, Jeff

McLin, Nathaniel

History & Criticism

Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Since 1994, Uta Barth has been creating a series of photographs which consist of blurred images generated by focusing the camera on an unoccupied foreground. These unframed, empty, but lushly seductive images present only background information, implying the absence of subjects, and referring to the function of images as containers of information and the role of the viewer in reading that information. This book is a faithful reproduction of the long out-of-print catalogue which was published on the occasion of Barth's first major museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1996.

Uta Barth: Moca Catalogue

Individual Artists

St. Ann's Press

Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America's foremost contemporary fine art photographers For almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America. This unique artist monograph presents a compelling visual narrative of Opie's work since the early 1980s, pairing images across bodies of work to form a full picture of her artistic vision. With more than 300 beautiful illustrations and made in close collaboration with Opie, the book marks a turning point in the consideration of this artist's work to date.

Catherine Opie

ALS, Hilton

Cotton, Charlotte

Fogle, Douglas

Phaidon Press

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