Past Event - Book Signing with Frances Anderton

Please join us for a book-signing event with Frances Anderton, host of the DnA broadcast on KCRW. Featuring her new book, Common Ground: Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles

Admission includes a personal copy of the book and a presentation over lunch at the California Club.

About the book:

Living in Los Angeles has always been equated with the suburban single-family home with a big backyard. But for decades, L.A. has also been the consummate laboratory for exceptional experiments in multifamily housing — dwellings centered on shared open space, from the central courtyard to the rooftop garden. In Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, author Frances Anderton explores that fascinating history— from the bungalow courts and apartment-hotels of the 1910s, through the development of garden apartments, to contemporary mid-rise “urban villages” and co-living spaces. Common Ground features the work of the Zwebells, R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, Ralph Vaughn, Koning Eizenberg, Sean…