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Notes from another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape

Title
  1. Notes from another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape / edited by Anthony Fontenot.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
  2. ©2022

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Additional authors
  1. Fontenot, Anthony
  2. Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988.
Description
  1. 294 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits; 26 cm
Summary
  1. "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"--
Alternative title
  1. Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape
Subject
  1. Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988 > Criticism and interpretation
  2. Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988
  3. 1900-1999
  4. Housing > California, Southern > History > 20th century
  5. Architecture, Domestic > California, Southern > History > 20th century
  6. Architecture and society > California, Southern > History > 20th century
  7. Architecture and society
  8. Architecture, Domestic
  9. Housing
  10. Criticism and interpretation
  11. Southern California
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JQF 22-1869
Note
  1. Portrait of Gregory Ain laid in.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Notes from another Los Angeles : Gregory Ain and the construction of a social landscape / edited by Anthony Fontenot.
Publisher
  1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Added author
  1. Fontenot, Anthony, editor.
  2. Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988.
LCCN
  1. 2021019735
ISBN
  1. 9780262046657 (paperback)
  2. 0262046652
Research call number
  1. JQF 22-1869
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