Juan Antonio Ramírez   Los Angeles from the air is like an artificial oasis expelled from the desert. It is not a city in the strict sense of the word, and neither could we call it a province. Considering its huge expanse, it is natural for each resident to identify himsel

Iain Boyd Whyte   In Broadacre City, a vision of the open, democratic city of the future, Frank Lloyd Wright proposed an independent community of single-family dwellings, with all the functions usually assigned to Downtown (the equivalent of the administrative and bus

Diane Ghirardo   This article covers twenty years of Los Angeles' architectural history, two decades marked by two natural disasters: the devastating earthquake that struck the city on February 9, 1971, and the great drought of 1991. The earthquake left in its wake a

Mike Davis   Among the manicured meadows of the Westside of Los Angeles, real groves of signs emerge on which the ominous warning can be read: ≪Armed Response≫. Other even richer areas, located in the hollows and hillsides, are protected behind walls guarded by s

John Lautner   United States   As the city of Los Angeles began to climb the hills that surround it, the myth of the semi-prefabricated single-family home simply deposited on horizontal terrain began to fade. The hillsides posed construction problems, but, in return, offered breat

Hodgetts & Fung   United States   Architecture is not the only activity in which Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung are engaged. They are also interested in film as an ephemeral phenomenon within a world dominated by communication. However, when it comes to making buildings, these architec

Antoine Predock   United States   Accustomed to the rigors of the New Mexico desert, Antonie Predock must feel very much at home on the beaches of California. His architecture, of a graphic and tectonic character, has been reduced here to a skeleton in which the gaps are filled only

Mark Mack Architects   United States   Accustomed to the rigors of the New Mexico desert, Antonie Predock must feel very much at home on the beaches of California. His architecture, of a graphic and tectonic character, has been reduced here to a skeleton in which the gaps are filled only

Koning Eizenberg Architecture   United States   Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg left their native Melbourne to finish their studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, but never returned to Australia. For some time they made a living making single-family dwellings, until they had to thin

Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones   United States   The sobriety of the containers that house the big film studios often contrasts with the waste of fantasy and imagination that takes place inside them. Most of the time, these buildings are simply diaphanous and blind boxes that allow the installation

Morphosis   United States   The duo that until recently formed by Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi, also known as Morphosis, had been sowing California with complicated (not complex) architectural objects for some years, and they have even crossed the Pacific to leave their mark

Eric Owen Moss   United States   California is littered with anonymous buildings built during World War II, when the needs of industry demanded large storage areas. Many of these buildings are now fertile ground for the intervention of architects, in a country where the use of these

Franklin D. Israel   United States   Like many of the architects currently in the limelight in Los Angeles, Frank Israel is not a Californian either. He hails from the East Coast of the United States, where he studied with Robert Venturi and, despite having worked for some years with Fr

Frank Gehry   United States   The presence of sculpture in Frank Gehry's architecture goes back a long way. Not only are his working models authentic living models that evolve during the design process, but the collaboration with artists has been evident in many of his works and