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Incorporating polyhedrons, bent pipes, curved wood, undulating glass, and other organic shapes into industrial architecture, Moss has constructed a number of buildings in Los Angeles, Culver City, and other cities in California, Germany, and elsewhere. The buildings are depicted here in full-page ph

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface (p. 6)
• In the Lexicon of Phobus (p. 8)
• Centripetal/Centrifugal (p. 10)
• Culver City/Los Angeles (p. 12)
• The Beehive 8520 National Boulevard (p. 14)
• What Wall? 3624 Hayden Avenue (p. 30)
• Stealth 3528 Hayden Avenue (p. 38)
• Bowstring T.I. 3530 Hayden Avenue (p. 66)
• Slash/Backslash 3532 Hayden Avenue/3534-6 Hayden Avenue (p. 78)
• The Umbrella 3542 Hayden Avenue (p. 98)
• Pterodactyl 3540 Hayden Avenue (p. 114)
• 3535 Hayden 3535 Hayden Avenue (p. 124)
• 3505 Hayden 3505 Hayden Avenue (p. 162)
• Ten Towers 3585 Hayden Avenue (p. 170)
• Samitaur/Kodak 3457 S. La Cienega Boulevard (p. 178)
• What Incubates Eric Owen Moss (p. 214)
• Unreal City Eric Owen Moss (p. 220)
• Projects/Competitions
• Gasometer D-I Vienna, Austria (p. 224)
• Ibiza Master Plan Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain (p. 236)
• Jewish Museum San Francisco San Francisco, California (p. 248)
• Dusseldorf Harbor Dusseldorf, Germany (p. 258)
• Dancing Bleachers Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio (p. 266)
• Samitaur/Jeff-Jeff Towers Los Angeles, California (p. 270)
• The Queens Museum of Art Queens, New York (p. 272)
• St. Petersburg Historic District Master Plan St. Petersburg, Russia (p. 282)
• New Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Russia (p. 284)
• New Holland Cultural Center St. Petersburg, Russia (p. 288)
• Project Chronology (p. 298)
• Staff (p. 299)
• Selected Bibliography (p. 300)
• Selected Exhibits/Catalogs (p. 302)
• Selected Awards (p. 303)
• Photo Credits (p. 304)

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Library Journal Review

Rizzoli produces quality architecture books-well-designed works with striking visuals and effective text that place architecture in context while quietly saying, "This work deserves a book." Moss's work deserves such treatment because it is jaggedly of our time: twisted metal, glass in arrangements that look lethal, concrete serving as cheap permanent mass, and wood as a random accent. His work is sprinkled around Los Angeles and Culver City, CA, with ideas for projects in other locales, including Vienna, Havana, and London. Collected here are his most recent projects, including plans for the Queens Museum of Art in New York. Architect Richard Meier offers up a nice introduction, assuring us that Moss (director, Southern California Inst. of Architecture) is now taming the anger apparent in his harsh designs and making some good, imaginative buildings. The virtues of the book are the simple drawings by Moss, which evolve into line drawings, site plans, and photographs of finished work. Good explanations for the finished buildings and their neighborhood context help out. Rizzoli's third collection of his "Buildings and Projects," this is recommended for larger or specialized architecture collections, especially those that have the first two volumes.-David Bryant, New Canaan P.L., CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.