{"product_id":"california-dreaming-isbn-9781119838357","title":"California Dreaming","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalifornia has historically provided a fertile breeding ground for radical modes of architectural thinking, practice and building, which from the 1920s onwards was sparked by the presence of eminent émigré architects. It was also central to the birth of ‘cool’ mid-century Modernism – all in parallel with the intense concentration of design and experimentation in the film, aerospace and tech industries. This \u003ci\u003eAD\u003c\/i\u003e issue explores the influential formal tropes generated in the nexus between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as well as the thriving theoretical preoccupations that have brought California's architects global attention. Between Hollywood and the Silicon Valley, this unique context has nurtured and become the platform for those who not only build buildings around the world, but have also founded and directed schools and educated emergent generations of architects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Anderton, Jasmine Benyamin, Blaine Brownell, Courtney Coffman, Heather Flood and Aaron Gensler, David Freeland and Brennan Buck, Craig Hodgetts, Max Kuo, Eva Menuhin, Nicole Meyer, Jill Stoner, and Grace Mitchell Tada.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured architects:\u003c\/b\u003e Atelier Manferdini, Ball-Nogues Studio, Faulders Studio, FreelandBuck, Hood Design Studio, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Preliminary Research Office, Stereobot, and Synthesis Design + Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction The Golden State: California's Architectural Soul\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Backlot Suburbia: A California Story\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Californian, The Third Way\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Material Imageability: The Architecture of Façades and Envelopes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Printing the Picture Plane: Imaging Scales Up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 California Burning: Architecture's Pyrocene Future\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Do Dream Landscapes Have Earthquakes?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Extra-disciplinary Dreams: Journeys Into the Foothills\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 The Picture and the Frame: Understanding a Contested Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 A Hands-on Conceptual Rigour: A Multi-scalar Approach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 There's Something in the Air: Authorship, the Hand and the Machine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Housing the Unhoused: Los Angeles Architects Rise to the Challenge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Skin and Bones: Pushing the Event Horizon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 In the Mood for Love: Chromophilia Unbound\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 From Another Perspective – Morphosis Modelling: A Golden Anniversary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout Architectural Design\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNeil Spiller \u003c\/b\u003eis editor of AD, previously he was Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and deputy pro vice-chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London. Prior to this, Spiller was dean of the School of Architecture, Design, and Construction and professor of architecture and digital theory, and vice-dean and graduate director of design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. \u003cp\u003eCalifornia has historically provided a fertile breeding ground for radical modes of architectural thinking, practice and building, which from the 1920s onwards was sparked by the presence of eminent émigré architects. It was also central to the birth of ‘cool’ mid-century Modernism – all in parallel with the intense concentration of design and experimentation in the film, aerospace and tech industries. This \u003ci\u003eAD\u003c\/i\u003e issue explores the influential formal tropes generated in the nexus between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as well as the thriving theoretical preoccupations that have brought California’s architects global attention. 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