New Architecture Los Angeles

This book showcases 50 of the most striking buildings in Los Angeles, featuring a range of architectural styles by leading design firms. It highlights the city's commitment to forward-thinking and environmentally conscious architecture, establishing it as a mecca for innovative designs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 08 April 2019
Publisher: Prestel

This captivating and extensively illustrated guide to the most exciting new buildings in Los Angeles establishes the city as a beacon of forward-thinking and environmentally conscious architecture. Some of the world's foremost architects are leaving their mark on the cityscape of Los Angeles with exciting and innovative projects. Fifty of the most striking buildings are showcased in this book, which features a diverse range of architectural styles, including houses, municipal structures, art museums, office buildings, performance spaces, and houses of worship. Leading design firms such as Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Eric Owen Moss Architects, Selldorf Architects, and wHY Architecture have contributed to the city's architectural vernacular. While the projects showcased here are as diverse as Gehry Partners' luminous Walt Disney Concert Hall and Bestor Architecture's compact housing development named Blackbirds, each building embraces an unmistakably Californian aesthetic reimagined for a new century. Accompanied by original photography, this is the first book to dedicate itself to the surge of creative building that has taken place in Los Angeles in the new millennium.

Weight: 1554g
Dimension: 288 x 249 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783791384771