Making L.A. Modern

This is the definitive volume on Craig Ellwood, a visionary architect, designer, and tastemaker often called the California Mies van der Rohe.

Michael Boyd, a designer based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, is a renowned and published expert on twentieth-century design and postwar modernism. Richard Powers is a widely published photographer whose books include Rizzoli's Making House. Ray Kappe is an internationally recognized architect, urban planner, and educator and is a cofounder of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.