Los Angeles modern architecture

May 15, 2010

Thomas S. Hines is Professor Emeritus of History and Architecture at UCLA, where he teaches urban and architectural history. Hines discusses his book, Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970, published by Rizzoli. His previous books include Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner, Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture, and Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform. In 1982, Hines was co-curator of the Neutra retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. He has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEH, and Getty fellowships.