| 
Books by Laura Massino
| |
|
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - Tour of Frank Gehry Architecture
& Other L.A. Buildings
Book Details
ISBN: 0764327155
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover
|
Description:
Tour the Los Angeles architecture designed by award winning architect
Frank O. Gehry and other architects with this wonderful guide. Fifty-nine
vivid color photos display these fascinating and varied structures,
while the text provides addresses and detailed descriptions of each
structure and its history. Among the public buildings and offices
included are the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Santa Monica City Hall, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, the Venice
Renaissance Building, and well-known "Binoculars Building." The private
residences include the Gehry House, the home of fellow architect
Rudolf M. Schindler, Venice Art Lofts, and the home of actor and
artist Dennis Hopper. Get behind the wheel and cruise L.A. for architecture
yourself, or stay at home and enjoy the sites from your lounge chair. |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - Pasadena
Book Details
ISBN: 0764324837
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover |
Description:
The city of Pasadena is rich in history and significant architecture, featuring 9 landmark districts and over 3,500 designated historic sites. Preservation groups like Pasadena Heritage have worked tirelessly with the city to preserve Pasadena's architectural treasures, with over 100 appearing on this driving tour. Elegant hotels include the Wentworth, The Hotel Green, and the Vista Del Arroyo. Tour-goers will marvel at all the brightly painted Victorian buildings to be found here. Pasadena also boasts many Arts & Crafts (Craftsman) style homes, including the work of architects Greene & Greene, Alfred and Arthur Heineman, Louis Easton, and more. See the mansions of "Millionaire's Row," Art Deco masterpieces, and Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, American Colonial, French Provincial, and English Tudor revival styles. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and southern California visitors all will love this unique and fascinating tour, which offers the best way to see diverse architecture in Pasadena.
|
| |
| | |
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - Downtown
Book Details
ISBN: 076432084X
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover |
Description:
Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith will take you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in the shortest amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building's history. Photographs are included to help you identify more than 90 sites. On this tour you'll encounter some of the oldest and some of the newest architecture in the city's most architecturally diverse area. Styles ranging from Victorian, Renaissance Revival, and European Beaux-Arts to Art Deco and Post-modern are represented in Downtown. Visit the new Walt Disney Concert Hall and the new cathedral, then travel into Little Tokyo and Chinatown, the Historic Theater District, and the first suburb of Los Angeles featuring magnificent Victorian homes from the 1880s. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A.
|
| |
| | |
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - Hancock Park/Miracle Mile
Book Details
ISBN: 0764322974
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover |
Description:
Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in a short amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building's history. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors all will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A. With 120 color photographs you will be able to identify more than 100 sites in the Hancock Park and Miracle Mile areas of L.A. that boast an eclectic mix of architectural styles. Starting in Koreatown at the Post-Modern "Chicken Shack," the author takes tour-goers on an incredible journey through the grand neighborhoods of Windsor Square and Hancock Park, to the Miracle Mile with its concentration of early-twentieth century buildings. Among popular Revival styles, you'll see Arts & Crafts, Streamline Moderne and Art Deco, Victorian, Programmatic, and Deconstructivist. Notable buildings designed by important architects Irving Gill, Wallace Neff, Gregory Ain, Rudolf M. Schindler, Scott Johnson, John and Donald Parkinson, Morgan, Walls and Clements, and more.
|
| |
| | |
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - Hollywood
Book Details
ISBN: 0764321218
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover |
Description:
Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in a short amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building's history, and 96 color photographs are included to help you identify more than 90 sites. HOLLYWOOD! Home of movies, celebrities, glamour and over a century of absolutely remarkable architecture. On this tour you will visit sites that span the city's intriguing history including a barn from Hollywood's humble beginnings as a bucolic retreat; original Victorian homes built at the turn of the 20th century; glamorous hotels and theaters from the Hollywood cinema's early days; and innovative designs by famed architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. The Hollywood Walk of Fame, the infamous Knickerbocker Hotel, the Hollyhock House, and the Egyptian and Chinese theaters are included alongside more obscure, yet fascinating, sites. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors all will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A..
|
| |
| | |
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - Silver Lake Homes
Book Details
ISBN: 0764320858
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover |
Description:
Visit more than 60 architecture sites in the area of Los Angeles known as Silver Lake, home to some of the greatest architecture in the world. Just five miles northwest of Los Angeles, it was home to a number of movie studios including the first official Disney Studio. Aficionados and students of architecture worldwide make pilgrimages to Silver Lake specifically to see the work of the Modernist architects Richard Neutra, Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, John Lautner, and Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr.), among others. In addition to a concentration of "Mid-century Modern" architecture, you'll see popular Spanish Colonial Revival and Spanish Mediterranean architecture, French Normandy, English Tudor, Gothic, and Post-modern styles. Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a "driving" city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith will take you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in the shortest amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building's history. Photographs are included to help you identify the sites. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer an alternative way to see diverse architecture in L.A..
|
| |
| | |
|
 |
Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook - West Hollywood/Beverly Hills
Book Details
ISBN: 0764321226
Size: 9" x 6"
Binding: Soft Cover |
Description:
Here is THE way to see Los Angeles's rich architectural heritage! L.A. is a driving city, best seen from the car. Tour guide, author, and architectural historian Laura Massino Smith directs you on an unforgettable ride to uncover the city's exciting cultural past. You can efficiently visit dozens of L.A.'s architectural marvels in a short amount of time. Maps and explicit driving directions help you navigate roads, while detailed descriptions of tour sites provide each building's history, and 66 color photographs are included to help you identify more than 60 sites. Welcome to Beverly Hills and West Hollywood! More than lavish homes and playgrounds for celebrities and millionaires, these cities boast a rich tapestry of diverse and exciting architecture. Tour these cities' vibrant histories as you drive down Santa Monica Blvd., Rodeo Drive, and the Sunset Strip. Here you'll find the Argyle Hotel, L.A.'s best-known example of Art Deco architecture; the Beverly Hills Hotel, built in the Spanish Mission style; the jet-age Union 76 gas station; southern California's only Art Nouveau building; examples of English Tudor, French Provincial, Storybook, Streamline Moderne, and Islamic-inspired architecture; as well as buildings designed by architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry. History buffs, architecture enthusiasts, and L.A. visitors all will love these unique and fascinating tours, which offer the best way to see diverse architecture in L.A..
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | |
Now available: John Lautner - Spirit in Architecture - Film by Bette Cohen