No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.—Reyner Banham.
los angeles, ca
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"One incentive to write about #SouthernCalifornia was that it was so neglected. It was a place that was not taken seriously. And damn it, I wanted it to be taken seriously," Esther McCoy (born on November 18, 1904). #EstherMcCoy
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Irving Gill, modernist architectural pioneer, had an unconventional marriage. When he died, his wife didn't collect his cremains, and like Raymond Chandler's Cissy, they just sat on a shelf. Rediscovered, claimed, his funeral is October 7--88 years late. facebook.com/SOHOSanDiego/po…
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For #ArchivesPatterns: Detail of the Mayan Theatre (1927) designed by the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls and Clements, via @USCLibraries: digitallibrary.usc.edu/Share….
The façade was sculpted by Mexican artist Francisco Cornejo (1892–1963). #ArchivesHashtagParty
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Craig Ellwood with an introduction by Esther McCoy, Walker, New York and Alfieri, Venezia, 1968...
Cover collage by Michael Gould...
#architecture #arquitectura #CraigEllwood #Ellwood
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Remembering the husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames who both passed away on August 21st, ten years apart. @EamesOffice: eamesoffice.com/about/biogra… #Eames #MidcenturyDesign
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Hay dias felices, muy felices y significativos aqui les dejo a Clara Porset sentada en su sala totonaca en casa del arquitecto Enrique Yañez y la silla Totonaca ahora en la exposición Crafting Modernity en @MuseumModernArt
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Seeking Beauty – Anita Klinz: Pioneer of Modern Book Design is funding now on @voldotco. Help us to publish this important book on one of Italy’s most formidable graphic designers vol.co/collections/seeking-b…
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Una buena parte de lo que exhibimos en Crafting Modernity en @MuseumModernArt es trabajo de mujeres diseñadoras en LATAM Aquí les contamos moma.org/magazine/articles/1… – at Cuauhtémoc, Distrito Federal
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Actress Anna May Wong was born in Los Angeles on January 3, 1905.
"Wong was reared around #ChinatownLA and had grown up speaking both Cantonese and English; she had an accent that was pure California." newyorker.com/books/under-re…
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Luna Chapel-Joseph Henry Sharp studio, drawing by R. M. Schindler, October 1915
#architecture #arquitectura #drawing #sketch #RudolfSchindler #Schindler
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Dec 11, 1975: Mayor Tom Bradley dedicated the #TriforiumLA 48 years ago in #DTLA. Artist Joseph Young created this 60-foot sculpture of light & sound with 1,494 hand-blown glass prisms. Photo: triforium.la
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Found this #PaulGoldberger tribute to #EstherMcCoy—published in the NY Times two weeks after her death—tucked inside the inscribed copy of The Second Generation I brought back from Boston.
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I really love the Esther McCoy short story, The Important House, for this + also assigned Friedman newyorker.com/magazine/1948/…
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"As architectural historian #EstherMcCoy pointed out, Channel Heights was perhaps the only war housing development that was not handled as a drawing board problem," Don Parson.
Channel Heights Housing Project designed by #RichardNeutra via @USCLibraries: digitallibrary.usc.edu/Share…
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We are reading Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader by Esther McCoy: lapl.me/EeIPVz3
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Reading the syllabus for the HOUSE session of my seminar and remembering how perfectly poisonous Esther McCoy's short story "The Important House" (1948) is newyorker.com/magazine/1948/…
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Today’s the day! Launching Season 2 of New Angle: Voice podcast @BWArchFdn with a profile of Ray Eames bwaf.org/resources/podcast // love this one and not just because I got to read Esther McCoy on Ray into the mic
