Common Ground

Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles

Frances Anderton Los Angeles is a city of exceptional experimentation when it comes to its architecture, and that includes multifamily buildings. As the urban housing crisis intensifies, Los Angeles will lead the way in building multifamily housing that meets—and even surpasses—the standards set by the single-family home, which has been until now the American Dream. From dingbat apartments to courtyard bungalows, author Frances Anderton traces the history of multifamily housing in Los Angeles and highlights the city’s innovations, arguing that the sense of community fostered in this housing helps us all to find, and appreciate, our common ground.

FRANCES ANDERTON was host of DnA: Design and Architecture, a weekly radio show on KCRW Los Angeles. For years she produced KCRW’s acclaimed current affairs shows, To The Point, and Which Way, LA?. She has served as correspondent for the New York Times and Dwell magazine. Her books include Grand Illusion: A Story of Ambition, and its Limits, on L.A.’s Bunker Hill, based on a studio she co-taught with Frank Gehry and partners at USC School of Architecture.

$50.00 U.S. • Hardcover 9 x 9 in, 208 Pages 100 Photographs On Sale: 10/11/2022 978-1-62640-091-7 Rights: Worldwide

A love letter to multifamily housing and making urban housing styles a part of the American Dream

Angel City Press

AN ARCHITECTURAL GUIDEBOOK TO LOS ANGELES Fully Revised 6th Edition David Gebhard and Robert Winter Updated by Robert Inman and Robert Winter • Foreword by Nathan Masters $45.00 Paperback 6 x 8.5 in, 576 Pages, 400+ images 978-1-62640-055-9