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   Art Deco and modern architecture in Los Angeles

EARLY MODERN BUILDINGS
  & ART-DECO STYLE

Beacon LaundrY
Bekins MovinG + StoraGe
Breeze Suites
Clem Wilson BuildinG
Crestwood
Dodworth BldG Facade
DohenY Memorial LibrarY
DominGuez BuildinG
Farmer's Insurance
First Unitarian Church of Los AnGeles
1st ConGreGational Church of Los AnGeles
Helms BackerY
Marshall HiGh School
Kerckhoff Hall
Levitt Pavilion
Los AnGeles CitY Jail
Owl DruG
Police Station Venice
Ravenswood APartments
Seventh-DaY Adventist Church
Sunset Towers
Van de KamP's BakerY
Woolworth Store
1931
Atwater BunGalows
BeverlY Hills CitY Hall
The GeorGian
Mausoleum
Penn Oil
SeliG's
ValleY DairY
Van NuYs MuniciPal BuildinG
1932
Corunna + Barcelona APartments
Glenarm Power Plant
HollYwood Power Station
Islamic Revival
Kaufman Hall
Men's GYm
Whittier National Trust & SavinGs
1933
Carl's SuPermarket
Griffith ObservatorY
HollYwood HiGh School
United States Post Office
1934
ComPton HiGh School
Mauretania
Model House
Santa Anita Racetrack
1935
Crossroads of the World
DistributinG Station
Max Factor
PhilosoPhical Research SocietY
Rene Faron Residence
Charles Lee Office
Thomas Jefferson HiGh School
1936
Brown DerbY
MaYwood CitY Hall
MuniciPal LiGht Water + Power
Santa Monica Post Office
1937
North American Paint & Chemical
Los AnGeles Film ExchanGe
Pabst BrewinG ComPanY
Police AcademY
Santa Monica CitY Hall
Thorne Hall
1938
Linda Vista HoPital
MaGnin DePartment Store
1939
Llo da Mar BowlinG AlleY
MaY ComPanY DePartment Store
Naval & Marine CorPs
Van NuYs Fire DePartment
1940
Fire Station Nº 1
Glendale CitY Hall
Haven of Rest Radio MinistrY
Urho Saari Swim Stadium
1941
Park La Brea HousinG
1942
BudGet StoraGe
1945
Sears Roebuck
1947
Masonic TemPle North HollYwood
1950
Perino's
Green Room Billiards
St. AuGustine
Scottish Rite TemPle
LoG Cabin
Ilona BuildinG
HYun House
APostolic Convent

Architectural History

Ornament has been part
of the tradition
of architecture
at all times and places
in human history.

In his 1908 essay
Ornament and Crime
architect Adolf Loos
expresses his philosophy
that ornamentation
can have the effect
of causing objects
to go out of style
and thus become obsolete.

This essay is important
in articulating new views,
later inherited
from the Arts and Crafts
movement,
which is fundamental
to the Bauhaus
and helped define
the ideology of modernism.

Not only simplification
of form
and the elimination
of ornament,
but also the social matters
of affordable housing
in the growing cities
were crucial.

Architect
Frank LloYd WriGht's
first commission
in Los Angeles,
the HollYhock House
showed that new needs
also can result in
groundbreaking designs
and the use
of new materials.

Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
and Frank LloYd WriGht
are just a few architects
who influenced each other.







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