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Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City (Haymarket) by Warren Montag is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Speeding across the California landscape, Chase pauses frequently to see whats really there: not just what the movies have taught us to expect, but the range and variation of the built environment that occupies what he calls everyday space. A practising architect and urban planner, as well as an important architectural critic, Chase explores a myriad of locales and examines their architectural featuresfrom the gay community space of West Hollywood, to the stucco box apartment complexes of the 1950s, to the truly weird mix of domestic arrangements in Venice Beach, to gated communities, to some of the historic houses of Hollywood and Beverly Hills and to the most recent transformations of the casino architecture in Las Vegas. At once learned, witty and ironic, Chase makes the mundane world of Southern California vistas come alive on the page.

Author

Warren Montag

Publisher

New York: Verso

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781859847015

Subjects

Art, Sociology, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14