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Photo Gallery: 20th Century Modernist Architecture in LA

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The photos are great but I wish the captions told us which buildings we were looking at.

Is Joshua David Stein a native of Los Angeles?

His stock-in-trade descriptions of the city and its residents (“much of the other worldliness of Southern California then has been translated into now an almost extraterrestrial strangeness, an irrigated concrete-and-Starbucks dystopia where television and L. Ron Hubbard are the only gods and tanning and driving the only activities worth doing”) are indicative of someone who has not spent much time in Southern California.

i think the second one is The Broadway that used to be in Westchester.

sorry! i meant the third one!

Great architectural photos, but why don’t we have a little narrative to go with each of the images?

#1, you will have guessed, is a CocaCola bottling plant southeast of downtown LA.

I think #3 is Robinson’s in Beverly Hills.

#4 is Wright’s Freeman house.

#5 and #7 are Neutra’s Von Sternberg house. The couple at right in #5 are Ayn Rand and her husband, who owned it at the time; in the middle are the Neutras.

#6 is the Department of Water and Power near the civic center. Albert Martin associates, I think, 1960s.

#8 is Dionna Neutra at her home in Silverlake.

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