Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving
Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City (Haymarket)
by John Chase
"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 multi-disciplinary art.".
"An architectural designer and an important architectural critic, Chase explores a myriad of locales and examines their architectural features - from the gay community space of West Hollywood, to the stucco box apartment complexes of the 1950s, to the truly weird mix of domestic arrangements in Venice Beach, to gated communities, to some of the historic houses of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and to the most recent transformations of the casino architecture in Las Vegas."--BOOK JACKET.
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Architecture, History, Urban ecology (sociology), City planning, Architecture, modern, 20th century, Cities and townsPlaces
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Glitter stucco & dumpster diving: reflections on building production in the vernacular city
2004, Verso
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Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City (Haymarket)
August 2000, Verso
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in English
1859848079 9781859848074
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"Although commercial vernacular architecture often borrows from high architecture, it nonetheless has a life of its own complete with its own vocabulary of forms, design methodology and set of individual designers."
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