Los Angeles Standards is a photographic portrait of Los Angeles that offers a way to view the city through 15 typologies that identify its unique environment.

French architects Caroline and Cyril Desroche took the 1,300 photographs while living in Los Angeles between 2008 and 2012. They are organized to compare and contrast the design archetypes that they have identified, including Mini-Malls, Billboards, Freeways, Parking Lots, and Stilt Houses. Each picture is accompanied by its address for research and travel.

This book aims to identify various standard elements that visually define Los Angeles. While the city is in a continual state of flux, becoming denser and redefining its urban landscape every day, this book is also a record of the influence of its urban history on its present identity.

Shortlisted

• Arles PhotoBook Awards 2021
• Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2020
• Photobooks of 2020 – Photoeye
• Photobooks of 2020 – Photobookstore

Articles

• Photobookjournal
• Ssense
• The Photobook Review 018 – Aperture
• DA
• L’Obs
• Blind magazine
• Marie Claire
• Tema Archi

Product Details 

• by Caroline & Cyril Desroche
• Afterword: Frank Gehry
• Design: Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine
• 632 pages, 17 x 23 cm
• Soft silkscreened cover
• Third printing, September 2022
• ISBN 978-2-490140-32-9