California Dreaming
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California Dreaming

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California Dreaming

About this book

California has historically provided a fertile breeding ground for radical modes of architectural thinking, practice and building, which from the 1920s onwards was sparked by the presence of eminent Ć©migrĆ© architects. It was also central to the birth of 'cool' mid-century Modernism – all in parallel with the intense concentration of design and experimentation in the film, aerospace and tech industries. This AD issue explores the influential formal tropes generated in the nexus between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as well as the thriving theoretical preoccupations that have brought California's architects global attention. Between Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, this unique context has nurtured and become the platform for those who not only build buildings around the world, but have also founded and directed schools and educated emergent generations of architects.

Contributors: Frances Anderton, Jasmine Benyamin, Blaine Brownell, Courtney Coffman, Heather Flood and Aaron Gensler, David Freeland and Brennan Buck, Craig Hodgetts, Max Kuo, Eva Menuhin, Nicole Meyer, Jill Stoner, and Grace Mitchell Tada.

Featured architects: Atelier Manferdini, Ball-Nogues Studio, Faulders Studio, FreelandBuck, Hood Design Studio, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Preliminary Research Office, Stereobot, and Synthesis Design + Architecture.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781119838357
eBook ISBN
9781119838371

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. About the Editor
  6. Introduction: The Golden State California’s Architectural Soul
  7. Backlot Suburbia: A California Story
  8. Californian, The Third Way
  9. Material Imageability: The Architecture of FaƧades and Envelopes
  10. Printing the Picture Plane: Imaging Scales Up
  11. California Burning: Architecture’s Pyrocene Future
  12. Do Dream Landscapes Have Earthquakes?
  13. Extra-disciplinary Dreams: Journeys Into the Foothills
  14. The Picture and the Frame: Understanding a Contested Landscape
  15. A Hands-on Conceptual Rigour: A Multi-scalar Approach
  16. There’s Something in the Air: Authorship, the Hand and the Machine
  17. Housing the Unhoused: Los Angeles Architects Rise to the Challenge
  18. Skin and Bones: Pushing the Event Horizon
  19. In the Mood for Love: Chromophilia Unbound
  20. From Another Perspective Morphosis Modelling: A Golden Anniversary
  21. Contributors
  22. What is Architectural Design?
  23. EULA