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Eric Owen Moss
Eric Owen Moss is widely recognized for his visionary designs around the world... -
High-Rise Development in Downtown L.A.
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Gregory Ain
Gregory Ain was as much a social activist as a visionary architect. Ain’s designs were fueled by the belief that Modern architecture could improve people’s lives. -
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Innovations in Technology
Technology played a huge role in virtually every example of Modern architecture in Los Angeles. Postwar L.A. was the right place and the right time for new technologies to usher in a wave of experimentation and innovation in terms of building design, construction, engineering, materials, and purpose. The war had brought a number of high-tech […] -
ModCom's History
Like the Conservancy itself, the Modern Committee began as a small group of passionate and concerned citizens and, over time, grew into a powerful voice for preservation in Los Angeles. The Modern Committee started life as the Fifties Task Force, a volunteer subcommittee of the Conservancy formed in 1984 in response to the rapid destruction […] -
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Arturo’s Mexican Restaurant
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Alcoholism Center for Women
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Mar Vista Tract
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Fighting Mansionization in Beverly Grove
“If we don’t stand up and take care of our residential neighborhoods, we’re fiddling while Rome burns.” — Shelley Wagers A twenty-year resident of the historic Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, Shelley Wagers worked for a decade with neighbors, the Beverly Wilshire Homes Association, and City Councilmember Paul Koretz to protect their community from […] -
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Los Angeles: Growing Up with Character
Los Angeles is entering a new phase of growth and physical transformation, as a postwar landscape defined largely by open space and low-rise buildings gives way to the demand for density. Few large cities can lay claim to L.A.’s recent investment in public transit infrastructure and expansion. Los Angeles is changing at a rapid pace, […] -
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Crestwood Hills
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L.A. Before 1940
Well before 1940, Los Angeles architects (both native-born and immigrant) had developed a free-thinking, exploratory Modernism blended with commercial pragmatism that generated new forms, new architectures, and a new decentralized city. Bullocks Wilshire (John and Donald Parkinson, 1929). Photo from Conservancy archives Southern California had been nurturing a culture of architectural experimentation as early as 1900. […]