Nothing permanent : modern architecture in California /

"Nothing Permanent is a nuanced intellectual history of architectural innovation in California between 1920 and 1970. It demonstrates how this prolific era of modern architecture was propelled by divergent views about the dynamic between interior and exterior, the idea of permanence, and the ex...

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Main Author: Cronan, Todd (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Connections in California Modern Architecture
  • Chapter 1. The Medium Has No Message: Media Politics from Adolf Loos to the Bauhaus
  • Chapter 2. Not Learning from Los Angeles
  • Chapter 3. Between Culture and Biology: R. M. Schindler and Richard Neutra at the Limits of Architecture
  • Chapter 4. Richard Neutra's Design Theory
  • Chapter 5. Functionalism with a Vengeance: Neutra, Soriano, and the Eameses
  • Chapter 6. Burn after Use: Eames Modeling
  • Conclusion: Reyner Banham's Neoliberal Aesthetic
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Color Plates