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Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990
By Wim de Wit
- ISBN
- 9781606061282
- Publisher
- Getty Research Inst.
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Starred Review on August 1, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
As Chicago architecture was to the 19th century, so was Los Angeles architecture to the 20th. Both cities were laboratories of architectural experimentation, reinvention, and redefinition. Both reckoned with environmental disasters, whether fire, earthquake, or mudslides. But while Chicago's Commercial Style preserved a classical or Gothic ornamental overlay, Los Angeles architects embraced an uncompromising modernism. Edited by de Wit (architecture & ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
