Beautiful large-format photos and insightful text by California architecture critic Dirk Sutro take you on this spectacular tour of 27 houses, which opens with a Foreword by leading architectural historian David Gebhard. Together, the text and the photos make it clear that California reigns as the world's most avant-garde architectural testing ground. Inspired by sources as diverse as California's Hispanic heritage, contemporary art and film, raw industrial materials, and settings that range from inner cities to the oceanfront and high desert, these gifted contemporary architects are redefining the word "house." Many of them also feel a deep connection to the past, as is evidenced by extended retrospective essays that explore the evolution of the Modern house in each of the state's largest metropolitan regions. These essays come alive with rare archival photos and stunning shots by master architectural photographers such as Julius Shulman, Marvin Rand, and Roger Sturtevant. West Coast Wave offers the most thorough examination yet of experimental California houses in the 20th century. Mark Mack, Frank Israel, Fernau and Hartman, Rob Wellington Quigley, and Morphosis are among the well-known contemporary architects whose progressive houses are showcased, along with rising talents such as Melinda Gray, David Baker and Nancy Whitcombe, Rene Davids and Christine Killory, and Jeanne McCallum. The impact of this provocative new architecture is captured in more than 150 color photos by leading architectural photographers, including Richard Barnes, Alan Weintraub, Dominic Vorillon, David Hewitt/Anne Garrison, Tom Bonner, Wayne Fujii, and Christopher Irion. The retrospective essays explain how the early California Modernists rejected international dogmas and turned instead to their regions for inspiration, from Irving Gill's spare Mission-influenced designs, to R.M. Schindler's 1920s fascination with southern California and the health movement. These essays also examine the evolution of a Bay Region attitude that began with Bernard Maybeck and continued through William Wurster and Joseph Esherick. Through these detailed essays and more than 100 photos, West Coast Wave also explores the work of Greene and Greene, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Raphael Soriano, Lloyd Ruocco, Homer Delawie, Charles Moore, and the Case Study architects.

West Coast Wave: New California Houses

Arts & Photography

Sutro, Dirk

Architecture

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Includes a list of more than 100 recordings for your jazz collection The fun and easy way to explore the world of jazz Jazz is America's greatest music, but with over a century's worth of styles and artists, where do you begin? Relax! This hep cat's guide delivers the scoop on the masters and their music -- from Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker to Wynton Marsalis. It's just what you need to tune in to the history and musical structure of jazz and become a more savvy listener. Discover how to * Understand the traits and roots of jazz * Tune in to jazz styles, from big band to bebop * Listen to great jazz artists * Catch a live jazz performance * Succeed in a jazz ensemble Praise for Jazz For Dummies "Now you can finally know about one of . . . America's greatest contributions to world culture." --Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter "Fun to read. . . . An important stepping stone to understanding this complex and profound music." --James Moody, jazz saxophonist "Dirk Sutro is madly in love with jazz and . . . he knows what he's talking about." --"Chubby" Jackson, jazz bassist

Jazz For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Music

For Dummies

Every jazz lover’s got his or her favorites. For some, it’s John Coltrane’s breathy, bitter-sweat ballad, “Naima.” For others, it’s Duke Ellington’s hard-jiving swing opus “Take the A Train.” Then there’s Miles Davis’s epic-making Kind of Blue, the improv tour de force in which Miles, Trane, and Cannonball trade solos and achieve sheer melodic transcendence. Whether you like it hip or mellow, hot or cool, Dixieland or avant garde, jazz is a vast and many-faceted sound space (and soul space) that you could spend a lifetime exploring. And it couldn’t hurt to have a savvy guide like former Los Angeles Times jazz critic and author Dirk Sutro to help you navigate its many depths and riches. 
In Jazz For Dummies, Sutro takes you deep into the history and soulful sounds of jazz. From Sachmo to Bird, Mingus to Weather Report, you get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the masters and their music, and you: <ul>
<li>Get the lowdown on jazz, firsthand, from today’s greats</li> <li>Get inside the different types of jazz—from big band to bee-bop to funk</li> <li>Get a handle on the concepts, terms, and conventions that distinguish jazz from other forms of music</li> <li>Get a perspective on the history of jazz</li> <li>Put together a fine jazz collection of your own</li> <li>Recognize the key characteristics of particular players’ sounds</li> </ul>
Whether you’re getting into jazz for the first time or you’re been in the scene for years, Jazz For Dummies is a treasure trove of facts, insights, and guidance on: <ul>
<li>One hundred years of jazz—from Dixieland to fusion and beyond</li> <li>Great front men and women, on sax, trumpet vocals</li> <li>Keyboard geniuses of jazz from ragtime to the present</li> <li>Percussionists, bassists, and guitarists of note</li> <li>Shopping for jazz recordings and finding live jazz in your area</li> </ul>
The bonus CD features a sampling of vintage recordings, including cuts by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Tatum, and others. Your swingin’ guide to the world of jazz, Jazz For Dummies lets you tune into the different jazz styles and help you become a more savvy listener.

Jazz For Dummies

This guidebook is geared toward anyone who wants to get out and see San Diego’s best buildings. By using the regional map provided, even those new to San Diego can figure out how to get where they want to go. Each neighborhood has its own map, and, wherever possible, essential buildings are clustered within walking distance of each other on one map. In many neighborhoods, one may park their car and explore the architectural attractions on foot. 
Downtown San Diego and urban neighborhoods like Mission Hills and North Park get their obvious due, but this guide also includes beach cities and the North Coast as far as Oceanside, the inland sections of North County, East County, and it extends south to San Ysidro and Tijuana. Styles covered range from modern to Mediterranean 
The full-color book has photographs to accompany each of the hundreds of listings, but is still compact enough to fit in a car’s glove compartment.

San Diego Architecture from Mission to Modern: Guide to the Buildings, Planning, People, and Spaces That Shape the Region

Travel

United States

San Diego Architectural Foundation

Unique guide to the architecture of San Diego's fast-growing downtown area. Color photos of each building listed, illustrations, maps and informative text guide the reader to notable sites throughout the Gaslamp Quarter and East Village, as well as in Balboa Park and Old Town.

San Diego Architecture Downtown: Highlights from the Award Winning San Diego Architecture

Founded during the space-age boom of the 1950s, the University of California, San Diego campus showcases some ofCalifornia's finest postwar architecture. Perched dramatically above the Pacific Ocean, the campus architecture ranges from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, from the new millennium, buildings that reflect the latest ideas about connecting buildings with the student community. University of California, San Diego is both a history of campus planning and growth and a series of map-guided walking tours of its architectural landmarks, including visits to buildings by world-renowned architects, such as Antoine Predock, Michael Rotondi, and Moshe Safdie.

University of California, San Diego: An Architectural Tour (The Campus Guide)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Princeton Architectural Press

Kennen Sie den Unterschied zwischen Acid Jazz, Avantgarde Jazz und Abstract Jazz? Können Sie Chet Baker und Charlie Parker unterscheiden? Wissen Sie, was Jazzer über Jazz sagen?  Was Sie schon immer über Jazz wissen wollten, aber nie zu fragen wagten, erfahren Sie nun in Jazz für Dummies. Swingen Sie mit Dirk Sutro durch die Welt des Jazz, und lernen Sie dabei die brillantesten Musiker und ihre stilistischen Finessen kennen.  Sie werden sehen: Mit dem nötigen Hintergrundwissen werden Sie Jazzmusik mit ganz anderen Ohren hören und garantiert noch mehr geniessen!  Sie erfahren: * Wie alles begann: Die Entstehung des Jazz * Welche Musiker den größten Einfluß hatten * Welche Instrumente im Jazz den Ton angeben * Was Jazzer über Jazz sagen * Wie Sie eine eigene Jazzsammlung aufbauen * Welchen Jazzlabeln Sie vertrauen können * Wo Sie den besten Live Jazz hören können

Jazz für Dummies (German Edition)

Wiley-VCH

Kennen Sie den Unterschied zwischen Acid Jazz, Avantgarde Jazz und Abstract Jazz? K?nnen Sie Chet Baker und Charlie Parker unterscheiden? Wissen Sie, was Jazzer ?ber Jazz sagen?  Was Sie schon immer ?ber Jazz wissen wollten, aber nie zu fragen wagten, erfahren Sie nun in "Jazz f?r Dummies". Swingen Sie mit Dirk Sutro durch die Welt des Jazz, und lernen Sie dabei die brillantesten Musiker und ihre stilistischen Finessen kennen. Au?erdem macht er Sie mit den Besonderheiten, Elementen und typischen Musikinstrumenten dieses Musikstils bekannt und gibt Ihnen einen ?berblick ?ber die Geschichte des Jazz.  Sie werden sehen: Mit dem n?tigen Hintergrundwissen werden Sie Jazzmusik mit ganz anderen Ohren h?ren und garantiert noch mehr geniessen!

Jazz Fur Dummies (German Edition)

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