Publisher's Synopsis
The lines that divide us are the spaces we share. Driveways, paths, entrances and walls. These are the boundaries that separate our homes, but also the in between areas we use and cross over. 'L.A. Vedute' by Thomas Locke Hobbs is a documentary study of domestic architecture in the city of Los Angeles. The project started after a walk around East Hollywood. Standing on the property line of two apartment buildings with adjacent driveways, the space in between reminded Hobbs of a painting: 'The Ideal City of Urbino', by an unknown Renaissance artist and famous for the optical linear perspective that shows the city in its greatness, with the total absence of people. The illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point.
