An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles

The most comprehensive guide to the built environment of Los Angeles County ever published.

New in this 5th edition:

-Lists of major architects for each style-Victorian, Beaux-Arts, Mission Revival, Arts & Crafts, Period Revival, International Style, Postmodernism

-Examples from a new generation of architects, including Frederick Fisher, David Lawrence Gray, Johnson & Favarro, Michael Maltzan, Pugh & Scarpa, and David Hertz Revised, reader-friendly historical essays

An essay on landscape architecture and a list of prominent landscape architects by period 300 new photographs by Robert Winter

Prominent new landmark buildings, including Frank Gehry's Philharmonic Hall, Raphael Moneo's Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels, Morphosis's Diamond Bar High School

In this updated and revised edition of the guide to Los Angeles, Robert Winter deftly highlights architectural delights both grand and obscure. The keen insights of the authors, their sense of humor and broad taste in art and style make this an entertaining and essential volume for anyone who loves to roam through neighborhoods and back streets in search of architectural treasures.

The most comprehensive guide to the built environment of Los Angeles County ever published.

New in this 5th edition:

Lists of major architects for each style-Victorian, Beaux-Arts, Mission Revival, Arts & Crafts, Period Revival, International Style, Postmodernism

Examples from a new generation of architects, including Frederick Fisher, David Lawrence Gray, Johnson & Favarro, Michael Maltzan, Pugh & Scarpa, and David Hertz Revised, reader-friendly historical essays

An essay on landscape architecture and a list of prominent landscape architects by period 300 new photographs by Robert Winter

Prominent new landmark buildings, including Frank Gehry's Philharmonic Hall, Raphael Moneo's Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels, Morphosis's Diamond Bar High School

In this updated and revised edition of the guide to Los Angeles, Robert Winter deftly highlights architectural delights both grand and obscure. The keen insights of the authors, their sense of humor and broad taste in art and style make this an entertaining and essential volume for anyone who loves to roam through neighborhoods and back streets in search of architectural treasures.

Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles

Noted architectural historian David Gebhard taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has been published extensively on American and European architecture.
Among his publications are The Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, revised edition, 2003) and The National Trust Guide to Art Deco in America (John Wiley, 1996).