An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles Handmade not gold plated

not gold plated

Endnotes section with local stories

and Ed Wood

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6 sticks of clear glass

An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles Handmade not gold platedThe map may not be the territory, and the word may not be the thing, but this guide is as close as it gets. Since its first publication by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1965, this seminal vade mecum of Los Angeles architecture has explored every rich potency of the often relentless, but sometimesas the authors have captured hererelenting L. A. cityscape. Revised extensively and updated rigorously since its fifth edition published in 2003,