Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther Mccoy Reader
ISBN: 9780615528236 | 0615528236
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
Pub. Date: 5/30/2012
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This fall, East of Borneo will publish the first anthology of Esther McCoy's landmark writing about Southern California. Esther McCoy (1904-1989) was a keen literary stylist and an ingenious architectural historian who chronicled mid-century modernist design as it was being created. Her 1960 book Five California Architects has long been acknowledged as an indispensable classic. As Reyner Banham observed: "No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all." Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther... MORE
| The Journey West | |
| Patchin Place: A Memoir | |
| About Malibu | |
| Outward Journey | |
| The Death of Dreiser | |
| California Changes Everyone | |
| Peter Reyner Banham: 1922-1988: An Appreciation | |
| The Founding Mother by Reyner Banham | |
| Schindler, Space Architect | |
| The California House...How It Started | |
| Notes ... MORE | |
| Charles Greene's Presence | |
| An Architect Speaks Out [William Gray Purcell] | |
| Gill's Birthday | |
| The Dodge House | |
| Letter from Esther McCoy to Torrance City Council | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright: 60 Years of Living Architecture | |
| Conversation with Lutah Maria Riggs, FAIA | |
| The Office of R.M. Schindler | |
| Happy Birthday, R. M.S. | |
| Neutra in California | |
| Neutra: An Appreciation | |
| Konrad Wachsmann: Memorial for Wachsmann at USC | |
| The Second Generation | |
| Los Angeles: A Private Proving Ground | |
| The New Face of the 1950s | |
| Peter Reyner Banham, review of Modern California Houses: Case Study Houses, 1946-1962 | |
| Arts & Architecture Case Study Houses | |
| Charles and Ray Eames | |
| A Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons | |
| Then and Now [Whitney R. Smith and Wayne R. Williams] | |
| Architecture West [Harwell Hamilton Harris] | |
| Recommendation for Harwell Hamilton Harris | |
| Pierre Koenig | |
| The Ultimate Climes of John Lautner | |
| Letter Regarding John Lautner | |
| Before the Silvers | |
| Writing and Raking Over the Foibles | |
| The Important House | |
| Library Use | |
| Palms | |
| Landscape Architecture in the Urban Scene | |
| Letter from Ray Bradbury to Esther McCoy | |
| Letter from Esther McCoy to Ray Bradbury | |
| Letter from Ray Bradbury to Esther McCoy | |
| Wanted: Architect (Preferably a Dead One) | |
| If You Don't Want to Get a Loan... | |
| Letters to the Editor | |
| Building, Ambition, and Vision | |
| A Vast Hall Full of Light, the Bradbury Building | |
| Architecture West [Hearst Castle] | |
| Acceptance Speech for Julia Morgan Award | |
| The Wiltern Theater | |
| Watts Towers | |
| Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village | |
| Those "Crazy" Domes | |
| Report from Malibu Hills | |
| Frank O. Gehry | |
| Dr. Salk Talks About His Institute | |
| High-Tech Images | |
| The Blue Bombshell: Pacific Design Center | |
| Robert Venturi: To Whom It May Concern | |
| Looking Backward | |
| On Attaining a Certain Age [Eames House] | |
| A Love of Small Packages: A Friend Remembers Ray Eames | |
| Architecture West: News Report [Santa Monica] | |
| J.R. Davidson | |
| Something to Wrap the Herring In | |
| John Entenza: A Memorial | |
| Lloyd Wright 1890-1978 | |
| The Rationalist Period | |
| Letter from Esther McCoy to Richard Weinstein | |
| Second Guessing Schindler | |
| Geography as Destiny | |
| A Who's Who | |
| Notes | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index | |
| Photographs | |
| About Esther McCoy | |
| About Susan Morgan | |
| About East of Borneo | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Esther McCoy (1904-89) was a keen literary stylist, perceptive architectural historian, and attentive witness to the birth of midcentury modernist design. McCoy's impressive writing life spanned sixty years and charted the progressive territory of American idealism from the collective utopian spirit of jazz-age Greenwich Village, through the Depression and WW II to the design-driven optimism of postwar Los Angeles. Five California Architects, her landmark 1960 hook, has long been recognized as an indispensable classic. As Reyner Banham observed, "No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all."
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