Daydream Houses of Los Angeles

by Charles Jencks

Book Overview

Book by Jencks, Charles This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847801772
• ISBN13: 9780847801770
• Release Date: November 1978
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Funniest Architecture Book Ever

This book is hilarious. The houses are all given snarky names like "Parthenon Branch Bank" and "Frank Lloyd Wright Aztec Sacrificial". I have a friend who claims this book brought her out of a major depression.

hedgehouse retry

marvellous (in each sense of the word) & completely droll, daydream houses of los angeles prefigures contemporary (2000+) postmodern art & (i assume) architecture school attitudes by 2.5 decades.make sure to read the introduction; it is as clever & priceless as the picturebook itself. charles jencks knows the secret of irony: one must love that at which one laughs. it may be an uncomfortable & unaccountable love, but it must exist.if you dont care all that much for architecture, this book is worth treble the price for its captions alone (topiary facsist, HedgeHouse, baby blue lobster w/ corner frostings, predatory mansard w/ l.a. door, etc & ect). if you live in los angeles, it will drag you by the shoulders & impel you to see buildings you have lived down the street from since you were kneehigh to a cranberry bean in a whole new, slightly nauseating, slightly exalted light...