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Terms and conditions applyThe Architecture of Entertainment: LA in the Twenties
Robert Winter and Alexander Vertikoff
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Format: Book
Pages: 160
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Date Published: Aug 2006
Stock Code: 57431
Binding: Hardback
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The 1920s were a time of dramatic change and burgeoning growth in the City of Angels. Much of the varied architectural milieu of Los Angeles came to be during this decade, as the centre of the city was planned and talented architects from around the world flooded into the area and competed for projects. Images of flappers, hooch, and jazz combined with the escapist attitude that came to dominate the decade - especially with the loucheness of many films prior to the Hays Act - and led to much of the early 20th century "escape" architecture of Los Angeles.
In The Architecture of Entertainment, noted architectural historian and author Robert Winter explains this "architecture of entertainment" - the inherent beauty and mystery of the era when historic architectural styles became adventurous escapades. Featured buildings include the Fine Arts Building, the El Capitan Theatre and Huntington's Botanical Gardens, while architects covered include Bertram Goodhue; Morgan, Walls and Clements; Allison and Allison; and Parkinson and Parkinson working in public architecture; as well as Frank Lloyd Wright and Wallace Neff working in residential architecture. Also included here are works from noted modernists Irving Gill, Alfred Loos, Richard Neutra, and others. To quote the inimitable Cecil B. DeMille in 1925, "As the most pervasive influence life has yet known motion pictures have had a definite influence on trends taken by architecture within the last decade."
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