Comments on: Photo Gallery: 20th Century Modernist Architecture in LA

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:59:43 +0000

#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.

By: RPA

RPA — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:33:58 +0000

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

By: jan

jan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:43:18 +0000

sorry! i meant the third one!

By: jan

jan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:39:28 +0000

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

By: St. Ives 65

St. Ives 65 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:08:08 +0000

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.

By: ccccc

ccccc — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:24:10 +0000

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