Product details

Art.No:

73228

Author / Artist:

Gesner, Harry - Lisa Germany (Text), Juergen nogai (Photogr.)

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner

Keyword:

Architektur - ArchitektInnen

Binding / Picture Size:

Kart. m. OU

Publisher:

Abrams

Place of publishing:

New York

Year of publication:

2012

Book Details / Size:

4°, 240 S., zahlr., oft ganzseit. farb. Abb., Pläne

Condition:

OU etw. randknittrig, untere Ecke bestossen, sonst tadellos.

Description:

EA. Text engl. - «For more than 60 years, passersby have strained to catch a glimpse of maverick architect Harry Gesner's houses in Southern California. This is the first book to examine Gesner's architecture, tracing his career from 1945 to the present and opening the doors to 15 of Gesner's intriguing homes, all located in or near Los Angeles and built in the 1950s and 1960s. An insightful and revealing text accompanies new photography by Juergen Nogai along with historical photographs and Gesner's own drawings, floor plans, and blueprints drawn from his remarkably rich archive. Gesner's utterly unique, often eccentric and unorthodox designs are outside the canons of doctrinaire modernism, yet he is undoubtedly a Modernist, and one whose romantic, quixotic nature has caused his truly extraordinary body of work to be overlooked by many--until now.»