Elizabeth A. T. Smith is Executive Director of the Helen
Frankenthaler Foundation, based in New York. Previously, she was
Executive Director, Curatorial Affairs, at the Art Gallery of
Ontario in Toronto; Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs
at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Curator at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. While at LA MOCA she
curated the 1989 exhibition Blueprints for Modern Living: History
and Legacy of the Case Study Houses. She has curated, published,
and lectured widely on a variety of topics in contemporary art and
architecture.
Peter Gössel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He
has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M.
Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several
titles in the Basic Architecture series.
American photographer Julius Shulman’s images of Californian
architecture have burned themselves into the retina of the 20th
century. A book on modern architecture without Shulman is
inconceivable. Some of his architectural photographs, like the
iconic shots of Frank Lloyd Wright’s or Pierre Koenig’s remarkable
structures, have been published countless times. The brilliance of
buildings like those by Charles Eames, as well as those of his
close friend, Richard Neutra, was first brought to light by
Shulman’s photography. The clarity of his work demanded that
architectural photography had to be considered as an independent
art form. Each Shulman image unites perception and understanding
for the buildings and their place in the landscape. The precise
compositions reveal not just the architectural ideas behind a
building’s surface, but also the visions and hopes of an entire
age. A sense of humanity is always present in his work, even when
the human figure is absent from the actual photographs. Today, a
great many of the buildings documented by Shulman have disappeared
or been crudely converted, but the thirst for his pioneering images
is stronger than ever before.
Once you hold it in your hands, you immediately want to get a
martini and sit by one of the pools.
*Literaturen*
If buildings were people, those in Julius Shulman's photographs
would be Grace Kelly: classically elegant, intriguingly remote.
*ARTnews*
The complete CSH program portrayed in stunning photos, detailed
drawings, and clear essays.
*Architectural Review*
...long and lean, just like a cantilevered Koenig or an elegant
Ellwood.
*Wallpaper*
Thirty of the projects from the magazine's Case Study program are
portrayed in stunning photographs, detailed drawings, and clear
essays.
*The Architect's Newspaper*
The large book lushly renders each project in colour and in
gorgeous black, sepia and white.
*The Architectural Review*
You need a California workout to lift it, but the book, an
exhaustive homage to the houses, is worth the effort.
*The New York Times*
Lavishly produced, handsomely illustrated.
*Los Angeles Times*
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