这是一部奢华和全面的大书，涵盖了最爱的房子风格之一，西班牙殖民复兴风格；通过超过三百张的彩色照片呈现了一部奢华风格的画像以及关于这种风格详尽的叙述。

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这些西班牙风格的建筑涵盖的方面有从大量的传统手法入手,其中许多都体现在这些显而易见的非凡的房子。元素包括密篱，白色粉刷墙壁，深凹式门，葱郁植物庭院式花园，复杂和彩色瓷砖的工作，套管式的古塔嵌入朱丽叶的阳台，精心描绘的铁艺窗花，以及戏剧性的灯光完全呈现出室内设计的高度和通过穆迪吊灯和微微火苗之光的投影。这些房子呈现出的都是最好的案例，著名的和鲜为人知的,建筑师展示的作品,如乔治·华盛顿史密斯,伯特伦古德休,华莱士·内夫和保罗·威廉姆斯；从二十世纪早期,当代从业工作者，包括马克·阿普尔顿,迈克尔·伯奇建筑师、和其他人。这些幻想中生活的房子真实的在南加州的阳光下存在。

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This sumptuous and comprehensive volume embraces one of the most beloved house forms, the Spanish Colonial Revival, presenting at once a lavish portrait of the style as well as the definitive statement on the subject through more than three hundred color photographs.

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The Spanish style in architecture encompasses facets from a vast array of traditions, many of which are in evidence in these extraordinary houses. Elements include thickset, whitewashed stucco walls, deeply recessed doors, lushly planted courtyard gardens, intricate and colorful tile work, telescoping towers inset with Juliet balconies, elaborately traced wrought-iron window grilles, and richly appointed interiors heightened by drama in light and shadow cast by moody pendant lamps and low-burning fires. The houses featured are the very best of the type, both famous and little-known, and showcase the work of architects such as George Washington Smith, Bertram Goodhue, Wallace Neff, and Paul Williams, from the early twentieth century, to the work of contemporary practitioners, including Marc Appleton, Michael Burch Architects, and others. These homes are a fantasy for living made real in the Southern California sun.

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