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Irving J Gill Architect
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN
Beautiful photography
Never enough Gill

Irving J. Gill: Architect, 1870 - 1936

Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform: A Study in Modernist Architectural Culture
Purcell & Elmslie
Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture
At Home on the Prairie: The Houses of Purcell & Elmslie
NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism

ASIN: 1586854461

Book Description

Architect Irving J. Gill (1870 - 1936) is widely considered the first and preeminent architect of the "Modernist" era. In her groundbreaking work, Five California Architects, Esther McCoy asserts that, along with Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, and R.M. Schindler, Gill is one of California's most important architects.

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Irving J Gill Architect.......2007-02-17

The photographs are wonderful. Unfortunately, Mr. Rand has not done his research. He misidentified houses, their dates of construction and owners. His book is filled with works by authors already published some years ago. It is a cobbling of misinformation and script available elsewhere. It looks thrown together. There is no index. I cannot recommend this book.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN.......2007-01-18

When you look at Irving Gill's work, you can almost feel the southern california sunshine and the ocean breezes caressing your skin. I for one love his work, expecially his Art Deco white houses, they just exude cool. This book is a wonderful tribute to the man and his work. The text is highly informative and the images are crisp and vivid. If you have any interest in southern california shiek or just talented people and their art, then I believe you will not be disappointed in this work.

Beautiful photography.......2007-01-18

I just received this book in the mail. It is a great accompaniment to the "Architecture of Reform" book especially because this book has beautiful large color photographs! Great book!

Never enough Gill.......2007-01-03

This is a beautiful book of Marvin Rand's particular photo-stylistic vision of Gill's work, although it is very limited on written information. I would also recommend the fantastic Thomas Hines "Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform," as well as the absolutely-required Esther McCoy "Five California Architects" as compliments to Rand's photos. In the end, it's about Gill's stunningly simple and beautiful work. The images, the details, the lost masterpieces (Dodge House), etc. are all wonderfully captured here. I waited nearly a year to get this book, and I was not disappointed. That said, anything on the California modernist pioneers is generally an interesting book purchase. Recommended for fans of Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain as well as the pipe-smoking American Bungalow set.

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Irving J. Gill, Architect
Bruce Kamerling , and Irving Gill
Manufacturer: San Diego Historical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Irving J. Gill: Architect, 1870 - 1936
Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform: A Study in Modernist Architectural Culture

ASIN: 0918740169

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This is the first full-length biography of Irving Gill, now considered to one of the most significant of early modern American architects. Trained in the office of Louis Sullivan of Chicago, Gill spent most of his career in southern California where in the early 1900s he developed an original and radical simplification of Mission style architecture.

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