(Read now) Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City
☆ John Chase ☆
| #1787554 in Books | Verso | 2004-06 | 2004-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.49 x.74 x7.68l,1.30 | File Name: 1859841384 | 256 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Was hoping for more about architecture and design.|By Atom Dari|The book doesn't really do much discussing of building production. Most of it is him waxing poetic about colorful neighbors, trash, and homeless living near his home. The name makes it seem like a book about vernacular design and creativity in the built environment will be in there, but a sad percentage is.|1 of||“Setting aside costume jewels such as the Getty Center, Los Angeles architecture—think reckless Spanish-tiled mansard genre mixing, mammoth doughnuts and L-shaped mini-malls—gets little respect in highbrow circles. Thankfully John Chase is a
Commended in the PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts (2001).
In this free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, from movie-star mansions to the alleys of the homeless, urban planner John Chase combines gossip, anecdote, archival research and tabloid-worthy self-revelation, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.
Speeding across the California landscape, Chase pauses frequently to see wha...
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