Foster + Partners   United States   The first images of the office building designed by Foster + Partners for the real estate development firm The Star in Los Angeles have been made public. Located at 6061 West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the tower has a spiral shape and its generou

Selgascano Diego Cano-Lasso   United States   In Mount Washington, a suburb in the hills of northeast Los Angeles, this house with impressive views of downtown LA adapts to the very steep lot it sits on, which faces southwest, making it necessary to shield the house against strong sunlight. Tube

H/RD (Hopson Rodstrom Design)   United States   Located in West Los Angeles, on a very busy street, this block containing 74 apartments and retail spaces is topped with a sawtooth roof. Alternating concrete and perforated metal panels, it features elongated windows arranged in a staggered pattern,

Dorte Mandrup   United States   The itinerary proposed crosses the park, and the new range of community spaces complement its current activity. In the center of the composition, the main building of La Brea, which is elevated off the ground, concentrates the cultural programs…

Adjaye Associates   United States   “The acropolis of consumerism.” This was the media’s pronouncement on opening day, in 1982, of an eight-floor bulk raised on an entire block between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, and which has since provided Angelenos with high-end stores, popula

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) of the United States, which year after year extols Hollywood movies with its Oscar awards, inaugurates its much awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on 30 September. The institution will in

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Un panal de piezas de hormigón reforzado con fibra de vidrio envuelve tres espacios segregados y superpuestos: el vestíbulo público, los almacenes y las salas expositivas.

Selgascano   United States   Amid dense vegetation and over the parking garage of a building that was demolished, sixty ovals varying in geometry and size rise to contain coworking spaces. The new Second Home in LA goes up on top of an underground parking and maintains a two-sto

Peter Zumthor   United States   Since 2008 Peter Zumthor has been working on the design of a new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The latest images of this project which gives LACMA an additional 36,000 square meters have been made public.

Selgascano   United States   Built in 2015 for the Serpentine Gallery in London, the pavilion designed by the Spanish firm SelgasCano will until 24 November be an events venue for the company Second Home, located in La Brea Tar Pits, in the heart of Los Angeles.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   On the famous Miracle Mile of Los Angeles, Renzo Piano is finishing the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a project of almost 28,000 square meters on the campus of the LACMA, next to the three buildings designed by the Genoan architect to extend the

Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The new campus of Berggruen Institute in the Santa Monica Mountains is a landscape vision as much as an architectural project. A self-sustaining linear park, inspired by the gardens of the Alhambra, organizes the different elements of the program...

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The scope of this project was to fuse the scattered buildings of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into a cohesive campus with new public spaces, new exhibition spaces and a strong visual identity for the museum. The first phase introduced the

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The scope of this project was to fuse the scattered buildings of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) into a cohesive campus with new public spaces, new exhibition spaces and a strong visual identity for the museum. The first phase introduced the

Richard Neutra   United States   Richard Neutra built a house and studio for himself in Los Angeles in 1932. He was only 41 then. Born in Vienna, in 1923 he migrated to the United States, settling first in Chicago. In February 1925, encouraged by their friend the Viennese architect

Rudolf Michael Schindler   United States   Rudolf M. Schindler designed and built his own house in the period between September1921 and June 1922. It was his first project as an independent architect, after leaving Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio on account of disagreements sparked by poor work c

United States   Joseph Giovannini Critics have long panned the Getty Villa in Malibu as the bagatelle of a rich man suffering a delusional overdose of megalomania. But 30 years after the building opened to mixed reviews, it’s time to look again: with a transformativ

Renzo Piano Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   This project undertakes the restructuring of a scattered architectural heritage, with an extension that seeks to seamlessly blend the old and the new. To preserve the existing buildings and their architectural peculiarities, the extension plan includ

Morphosis   United States   Ubicado en el centro de Los Ángeles, este edificio aloja las oficinas del Departamento de Transportes de California, conocido como Caltrans, y compite como hito con los cercanos Disney Concert Hall, de Frank Gehry, y con la Catedral de Nuestra Señora

Frank Gehry   United States   Hace 17 años, la viuda de Walt Disney anunció la donación de cincuenta millones de dólares al Music Center del condado de Los Ángeles para la construcción de un auditorio en memoria de su difunto marido. Al afán de homenaje de la señora Disney se aña

Rafael Moneo   United States   Planning to give Los Angeles a new Catholic cathedral, Cardinal Roger Mahoney asked Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown, and Rafael Moneo to present ideas for a garden/sanctuary in memory of Friar Junípero S

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Aline barnsdall, an oil heiress consumed by a love for the dramatic arts, acquired a tract of land on ‘Olive Hill’on which to make true her desire to be a patroness of the arts. Originally the project included a theater for live drama, another for m

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

Friends of Residential Treasures: Los Angeles (FORT: LA) is collaborating with Frances Anderton, longtime architecture advocate and author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, on an innovative online resource called “Awesome and Affo

In March 2019, Luis Fernández-Galiano gave a series of lectures at the Fundación March that intended to condense the culture of the 20th century in four episodes with four cities as protagonists: a series that gathered large audiences and since conti

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If the gilded moment of Vienna ended with World War I and the artistic protagonism of Paris with World War II, the cultural scene of New York blurred from 1968 on. A good number of the abstract expressionists had died young. Peggy Guggenheim had retu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   This monograph collects the four lectures given at Madrid’s Fundación Juan March between 5 and 14 March of 2019. The series, ‘Four Cities: Episodes in the Cultural History of the 20th Century in the West,’ gathered a large audience, which multiplied

Curbed   Alissa Walker   Davis, who died of complications from esophageal cancer yesterday at 76, served as both the reluctant prognosticator-in-chief for L.A. and a guide to the overlapping urban crises that now cascade across U.S. cities with alarming frequency. In his imm

If every epoch has its own idea of history and thus builds its own museums, ours already has one which exemplarily captures the aspirations of the 20th century: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which Renzo Piano has just completed in Hollywood

Piano in LA

Luis Fernández-Galiano was twice on a scholarship program of the Fundación Juan March – in Spain in 1976-1977 and abroad in 1966-1968 – but his first lecture at the foundation headquarters took place in 2010. In the course of a decade thereafter, he

Skirball   In advance of the exhibition ‘Ai Weiwei: Trace,’ which will make its Los Angeles debut this spring at the Skirball Cultural Center, a virtual talk presenting the artist-activist in conversation with Skirball curator Yael Lipschutz is premiering on Su

The Spaces   Rosella Degori   This house was built with healthy living in mind for naturopath Phillip Lovell. Completed in 1929, the building has numerous porches designated for nude sunbathing and cubic living spaces drenched in light via huge steel-framed windows. The Los Feliz

The New York Review of Books    Joseph Giovannini   There are two demolitions going on at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest encyclopedic museum west of the Mississippi... (‘The Redesign of LACMA: An Exchange’ Michael Govan, reply by Joseph Giovannini)...

The Guardian   Louisa Streeting   Franck Bohbot’s photography series LA Confidential, started in 2018, is a nocturnal exploration that focuses on neon signs. “At night, everything changes,” says the photographer, who is originally from Paris, “and the neon lights help to create the s

The Architect's Newspaper   Antonio Pacheco   Gehry Partners has unveiled renderings for a new 800,000-square-foot office complex slated for the Warner Bros. studio campus in Burbank, California. In a press release announcing the project, Gehry said, “Once upon a time, Hollywood Studios had an i

LA Review of Books   Joseph Giovannini   Joseph Giovannini scrutinizes LACMA director Michael Govan’s failures and deceptions surrounding the museum’s renovations. Until about two weeks ago, announcements by Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, were always reassu

The Spaces   A piece of classic midcentury architecture is up for sale in Los Angeles, as Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House 21 hits the market...

The visionary multimillionaire movie mogul George Lucas has announced that the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will finally be going up in the city of Los Angeles – in Exposition Park, near the Natural History Museum and Coliseum. This news puts an end

Ever since their 2002 Blur Building, a cloud suspended over Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, the career of the partnership of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio (joined by Charles Renfro in 2004) has been dotted with projects which are always surpri

Eduardo Prieto   En homenaje al compositor de origen griego Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), ingeniero, arquitecto y colaborador de Le Corbusier, su obra gráfica se expone en el MOCA de Los Ángeles; un ciclo en el Auditorio Nacional de Madrid recuerda su música.

Considerado, junto a Ezra Stoller, uno de los padres de la moderna fotografía de arquitectura, Julius Shulman ha fallecido en Los Ángeles a los 98 años. Responsable de las más conocidas imágenes de arquitectura californiana de posguerra, su carrera h

Con un gesto amenazante, frente a la Catedral Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles de Rafael Moneo, se eleva el primer proyecto construido por Coop Himmelb(l)au en la ciudad californiana. El Instituto de Interpretación y Artes Visuales se emplaza en una emb

Clifford Pearson   El modo en que uno se aproxima a la Villa Getty condiciona la manera en que se percibe. Como sucede con la historia, el contexto y la perspectiva modelan el significado. Teniendo en cuenta estos elementos, y con un presupuesto de 275 millones de dóla

Carlos Jiménez   The same week in spring 1996 that Rafael Moneo received the Pritzker Prize in Los Angeles, he was also awarded by one of those coincidences of fate the commission to design that city’s cathedral. Delivering his acceptance speech at the Getty Center,

Juan Coll-Barreu   El 17 de marzo de 1932, una carta viajó de Nueva York a Los Ángeles: «Mi verdadera opinión es que la Exposición no es el sitio para su obra... Creo que estoy familiarizado con la mayor parte de su obra publicada. Por tanto, no es necesario que me env

Reyner Banham   La arquitectura de cuatro ecologías

Thomas S. Hines   Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970

Juan Coll-Barreu   Los Ángeles doméstico 1900-1960