Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California

by Adam Arenson

Winner, Docomomo US Modernism in America Citation of Merit, 2018
PROSE Award, Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2019

"I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now," financier Howard Ahmanson told visual artist Millard Sheets, offering him complete control of design, subject, decoration, and budget for his Home Savings and Loan branch offices. The partnership between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477315292
• ISBN13: 9781477315293
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.3" x 10.2"