Stephen Phillips (ed.)

L.A. [Ten]

Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture
1970s–1990s
with Stephen Phillips

Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affi liated cadre of architects — the so-called L.A. Ten — emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L. A. architecture as they remember it. Architect, historian, and educator Stephen Phillips and the students of the Cal Poly L. A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design, alongside Wim de Wit and Christopher Alexander of the Getty Research Institute, conduct the engaging series of oral history interviews.

Catapulted to fame by the international media in and around the 1980s, a loosely affi liated cadre of architects — the so-called L.A. Ten — emerged to define the future of Los Angeles architecture. In this book, architects Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Coy Howard, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi, and former associates of the late Franklin Israel offer a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L. A. architecture as they remember it. Architect, historian, and educator Stephen Phillips and the students of the Cal Poly L. A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design, alongside Wim de Wit and Christopher Alexander of the Getty Research Institute, conduct the engaging series of oral history interviews.

Edited by Stephen Phillips

With contributions by Howard Coy, Neil Denari, Frederick Fisher, Hsinming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Franklin Israel Retrospective, Wes Jones, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Michael Rotondi

Design: The Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design with Stephen Phillips

Architects (SPARCHS)

15,2 x 22,9 cm, 6 x 9 in

256 pages, 194 illustrations

hardback

2014, 978-3-03778-409-9, English
CHF 30.00

Stephen Phillips

Stephen Philips, an architect, historian and educator, is Associate Professor of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and Founding Director of the Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.