Dingbat 2.0:
The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment
as Projection
of a Metropolis
Edited by
Thurman Grant
& Joshua G. Stein
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The book successfully leverages the dingbat as a launchpad for surveying multi-family housing in Los Angeles, picking apart the prickly and multivalent nature of its creation myth and subsequent existence through the lenses of prior appreciation, scholarly interest, and post-war art production.
It attempts to ground what could otherwise be a fetishization of Sputnik-era kitsch into a sprawling examination of the economic, social, and technocratic instruments developers, architects, and occupants used to design, build, and enjoy one of L.A.’s most unsung contributions to architectural-historical patrimony.
The book’s central matter, the field guide to dingbats, will change the way you see L.A.
-Antonio Pachecho
The Architect’s Newspaper