LA JOLLA CALIFORNIA REVIEW 5, 1965 oversize

San Diego: California Review, 1965. First Edition. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. Fully and completely illustrated with multi-hued tinted photographs of La Jolla California. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. James Bitton II applied Lewis Mumford's theories of civic development to local conditions. In short order, he went from anonymous writer for the San Diego Journal and Point Magazine to feature writer for Point Magazine and Magazine San Diego that later became San Diego and Point Magazine and in 1955 became San Diego Magazine. He also contributed to Los Angeles Magazine (1962-63) and founded, edited and published the California Review for a two-year period (1963-65). Britton's winning of second prize in an American Institute of Architect's (AIA) journalistic competition and his receiving a grant from the Ford Foundation (both in 1959) took him away from San Diego between 1960-61. During this hiatus from his regular writing chores, he studied at Harvard University and scrutinized plans for civic improvement in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and other cities. His abilities as critic and writer got him an appointment as editor of the Journal of the American Society of Landscape Architecture from 1965-70 and in 1968 a position as Special Architectural Journalist for the AIA in Washington, D.C. In December 1977 the last article by Britton to appear in San Diego Magazine, titled "The Stone Flower," about the University of California at San Diego Library designed by Los Angeles architect William Pereira, was a repeat of an article he wrote for the August issue of the AIA journal. His generally appreciative attitude toward the library's stunning spheroid exterior was tempered by a detailed physiological description of its indigestible interior. The following year Britton became the full-time architectural critic for The San Diego Union, writing twice a month for the Sunday Home Section. His provocative, sometimes mocking, sometimes scathing, columns continued to razzle and rankle in the Union until he died of a heart attack on January 4, 1983. John Waggaman 's Portraits of Artists, was published by the La Jolla Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition there from May 17-June 18, 1967. He went on to become a well-known photographer in New York City. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.