The Palm Springs School: Desert Modernism 1934-1975

"In an era of architectural monumentality, celebrity designs and urban gigantism, the Palm Springs School feels like a quiet manifesto in favor of scale, humanity, context. This volume offers a fresh look at the mid-century architectural experiment in California. Sometimes architecture’s power is in subtlety: in the way a flat roof reaches toward sky, or a window frames nothing but light. The deceptively relaxed houses, the interplay of indoor/outdoor, light and shadow, the vernacular modernism that speaks of desert realities and post-war optimism, all of these feel like a laboratory for a life lived well."