The first ever book to examine the work of ingenious inventor, builder, and architect, Walter S. White (1917-2002). White's designs for the desert cities of the Coachella Valley and the high plateau of Colorado Springs took inspiration from the natural landscape, while proposing new, ecologically sensitive and inexpensive constructions methods.

The book includes essays by students of the Dept. of the History of Art & Architectrure, UC Santa Barbara, and is richly illustrated with numerous color and back white images, most of them never published before.

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This article identifies the private home in Los Angeles of the German silent movie director F.W. Murnau (1888-1931). 

It argues that the movie director's fascination with castle-like buildings existed long before Murnau was involved with movie making. Murnau's preferred type of domestic architecture--which the gay movie director associated with privacy--influenced the settings of many of his later movies.  

The article also identifies the likely site of Murnau's fatal car accident north of Santa Barbara, CA, in 1931.