Irving Gill
Editorial Reviews 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. Gibbs Smith, Publisher, is proud to present this definitive monograph on the life and architectural achievements of Irving Gill, with insightful text by respected architectural critic Joseph Giovannini and brilliant photography by Marvin Rand. From the Inside Flap 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. This book is a definitive monograph on the life and architectural achievements of Gill, with brilliant photography by Marvin Rand and insightful text by respected architectural critic Joseph Giovannini. As one of th emost influential architects of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, Gill is said to have been so far advanced for his time that there was yet no discussion of "modernism"--it simply had not emerged as a movement of a consciousness. Gill followed no one, choosing instead to lead a paradigm shift from crafts construction to mechanic building, particularly in light of the development and evolution of concrete as material of choice. Giovannini discusses Gill's personal and professional background, the evolution of his work, his epiphany in the period from 1907 through 1910, and the application and development of Gill's vision through his remaining work in the Los Angeles area. Irving J. Gill is an important addition to the library of any serious scholar or fan of Gill, California architecture, modernism, or turn-of-the-century development in building. Marvin Rand gained his photographic education at Los Angeles City College, the U.S. Air Force Photographic School, and Art Center College of Design. He has made a career as an architectural photographer, and his clients have included Charles Eames, Cesar Pelli, Louis Kahn, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Gwathmey/Siegal & Associates, William Pereira & Associates, the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few. His photographs have been featured in twenty exhibitions from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, and New York; and in twenty-three books, including seminal books on Greene and Greene authored by Randell Makinson and Five California Architects by Esther McCoy. His first monograph, Greene and Greene, was published in 2005. Rand lives in Marina del Rey, California, with his wife, Mary Ann Danin. Joseph Giovannini has vast experience as a teacher of architecture at major universities across the country and internationally, including UCLA, Columbia, University of South California, and the University of Insbruck among others. As an architecture critic, writer and editor, his work has appeared in national and international publications such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Magazine, Art Forum, Progressive Architecture, Domus, International Design, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung, and Architecture Magazine. He lives in New York and Los Angeles. Irving Gill
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