Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780764321221 Author(s): Laura Massino Smith Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2004 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pages: 64

Description: Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A.is a 'driving' city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, andarchitectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on anunforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You canefficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in a shortamount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigateroads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building'shistory. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors allwill love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best wayto see diverse architecture in L.A.With 120 color photographs you will be able to identify more than 100sites in the Hancock Park and Miracle Mile areas of L.A. that boast aneclectic mix of architectural styles. Starting in Koreatown at thePost-Modern 'Chicken Shack,' the author takes tour-goers on anincredible journey through the grand neighborhoods of Windsor Square andHancock Park, to the Miracle Mile with its concentration ofearly-twentieth century buildings. Among popular Revival styles, you'llsee Arts & Crafts, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco, Victorian,Programmatic, and Deconstructivist. Notable buildings designed byimportant architects Irving Gill, Wallace Neff, Gregory Ain, Rudolf M.Schindler, Scott Johnson, John and Donald Parkinson, Morgan, Walls andClements, and more.

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