Greene and Greene pioneered and perfected the Craftsman Bungalow. It was L.A.โs first vernacular style - adopted across the country and among the few recognized around the world as a truly original American architecture.
A pioneer of LA's Light and Space Movement, Robert Irwin transformed art from an object into a philosophical experience.
As a painter, photographer and publisher for over six decades, Ed Ruscha has built the most significant artistic and historical record of a city.
In 1920, RM Schindler came to L.A. to oversee a house by Frank Lloyd Wright. He never left. And a century later, you can still find the homes he built that define modern architecture all over the city.
Gehry always credits this city, not just for artistic inspiration, but for welcoming his avant-garde ideas from the beginning. He said he never could have built what he built here when he was still unknown. And in return, we are just as grateful.
Iโve followed Bradford for years, not just because heโs an LA artist, but because his works mirror the cultural history of this city - from the race riots, the Grim Sleeper and Manson murders, and the sad decline of entire urban neighborhoods.
In 1954, Clarence Stahl was told by several architects that he would never be able to build on this hilltop filled with broken concrete. USC architect Pierre Koenig would prove them wrong. And after city officials finally approved the building plans, they said no one would want another house like it. Again, Koenig would prove them wrong.
โ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข. ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฎ, ๐๐ฉ ๐๐จ ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ก๐๐๐ง.โ While studying architecture in Pomona, Burden switched to arts and would spend the rest of his life creating it in Los Angeles.
It's amazing to think that Rodia's Watts Towers survived the 1933 and subsequent earthquakes, plans for demolition, a 10,000-pound load test, and the infamous riots that damaged 288 other buildings in Watts. With only the most rudimentary tools, it remains the largest structure built by one man alone.
