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Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles
John Eng
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Description for Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles
Num Pages: 142 pages, 167 color images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMKD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1054.
Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world–quite literally–needed to be rebuilt. It was during this time that modern ideas led the way to the future. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like ... Read more
Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world–quite literally–needed to be rebuilt. It was during this time that modern ideas led the way to the future. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of modern architecture and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
142
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764338656
SKU
V9780764338656
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About John Eng
John Eng is a writer, director, designer, and photographer living a “1960s Modern” life. A preservationist and photographer, Adriene Biondo worked with the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Conservancy to create a historic district for the 1963-64 Balboa Highlands Eichler tract, now an officially designated Historic Preservation Overlay Zone.
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