Pierre Koenig - Bailey house (case study house 21), Los Angeles 1958. Shot by Julius Shulman. Via.
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“They were doing mashups before mashups even existed.
It’s not about the pieces, is how the pieces work together.
Taking something that already exists and making it something special.
In a kind of like sampling.”
- Ice Cube, talking about The Eames House.
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NETWORK_LA transit
Network_LA Transit is a conceptual design response by Gensler Los Angeles to an open invitation by Sci-Arc, The Architect’s Newspaper and LA Metro to shift people from their cars to public transit.
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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Architectural critic Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in this 1972 BBC documentary.
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“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Freeway,” the book “is neither a diatribe nor a paean. Sometimes I hate freeways and sometimes I actually love them, but that is not the point. The point here is simply to spend some time thinking about a subject that most of us take for granted. … My hope was to understand the freeways, not to judge them.”
Reading L.A.: David Brodsly’s ‘L.A. Freeway’ by @culturemonster
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Source: Los Angeles Times
