Bunker Hill Los Angeles

As compelling as the story of the destruction of Bunker Hill is"€"with all the good intentions and bad results endemic to city politics"€"it was its people who made the Hill at once desirable and undesirable. Marsak commemorates the poets and writers, artists and activists, little guys and big guys, and of course, the many architects who built and rebuilt the community on the Hill"€"time after historic time. Any fan of American architecture will treasure Marsak's analysis of buildings that have crowned the Hill: the exuberance of Victorian shingle and spindlework, from Mission to Modern, from Queen Anne to Frank Gehry, Bunker Hill has been home to it all, the ever-changing built environment. With more than 250 photographs"€"many in color"€"as well as maps and vintage ephemera to tell his dramatic visual story, Marsak lures us into BUNKER HILL Los Angeles and shares its lost world, then guides us to its new one.