Architectural Studies
June 2, 2011 A Glorious Nightmare of a Place
Blue-Green-Red (the Pacific Design Center, Cesar Pelli, in transition) May 27, 2011
May 20, 2011 Ghosts of the Twenties
Old Friends March 31, 2011
1930 Royalty (the Royal Carlton, East Hollywood) March 17, 2011
March 10, 2011 That Miracle Mile
Echoes from 1924 (the Jensens Recreation Center building in Echo Park) March 8, 2011
Local Ruins (Hollywood's Pantages Theater) March 3, 2011
February 10, 2011 Twenties Detailing
January 4, 2011 Frank Lloyd Wright's 1924 Ennis House
December 9, 2010 First and Hope (Frank Gehry's Disney Concert Hall)
World Famous (California Bank Branch, 1929, John and Donald B. Parkinson) November 5, 2010
Eighty Years Ago September 16, 2010
Concerning 1928 (the Culver City Masonic Temple) September 10, 2010
Dark Avalon (the Avalon Theater on Vine) September 8, 2010
The Survivor August 5, 2010
Architectural Notes July 22, 2010
July 21, 2010 Regarding the Past
Deco Days July 19, 2010
July 1, 2010 Highland and Willoughby
It Was Complicated June 28, 2010
LA Baroque June 1, 2010
Possibilities May 13, 2010
April 6, 2010 That Miracle Mile
All in a Row March 15, 2010
Hollywood Seville (the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study) March 11, 2010
In Better Times (the Spring Street Financial District) March 8, 2010
Monumental February 3, 2010
Hollywood 1926-1928 December 9, 2009
Rainy Day Deco December 7, 2009
Recycled Temple (S. Tilden Norton, 1925) November 11, 2009
1931 Gold (black and gold terra cotta Art Deco, 1931, Arthur E. Harvey) November 10, 2009
Western Detailing November 10, 2009
Imperial City (the Los Angeles Times Building and City Hall) October 22, 2009
Far Out (the Million Dollar Theater, 1917) October 23, 2009
Postindustrial LA October 16, 2009
Art Deco Lives (the the Wilshire Theater restored) October 15, 2009
Wilshire 1929 October 7, 2009
Straight from 1924 (Jensen's Melrose Theatre) September 1, 2009
The Fine Arts August 28, 2009
Art Deco Blue August 20, 2009
The Rogers Folly (the Beverly Hills City Hall) July 15, 2009
Ghost Windows July 8, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright on Hollywood Boulevard May 18, 2009
From the Thirties (the El Rey Theater) April 13, 2009
Precious Palladian (Pasadena City Hall) February 19, 2009
God Gone Now (an old church) February 19, 2009
Heroic Patriotism January 20, 2009
More Architectural History August 21, 2008
Classic Intimidation (a 1925 hotel, restored) August 13, 2008
1505 Fourth July 17, 2008
Dark Theater May 26, 2008
1929 in Malibu May 16, 2008
Hollywood Architecture Just Before the Great Depression May 7, 2008
The Unforgiving Modern Eliot Noyes' 1963 "punch card" building and the Galef Center for Fine Arts April 24, 2008
The Dark Capitan (The El Capitan Theater, Churrigueresque darkness) April 16, 2008
Art Deco Details April 8, 2008
The Gilded Age (All-American Art Deco from 1929) March 25, 2008
Little Egyptian (The Vista Theater on Sunset) March 4, 2008
Safe and Secure (A Federalist Bank) March 4, 2008
Geometric Isolation (the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Renzo Piano) February 25, 2008
Extreme Victorian (the Wadsworth Chapel) February 29, 2008
Building Islam (The King Fahd Mosque, Culver City) February 19, 2008
Kirk's Place Now
The Culver, now the Kirk Douglas Theater, 9820 Washington Boulevard, Culver City - Architect: Carl G. Moeller, 1947, restoration, Steven Ehrlich Architects, 2001 January 30, 2008
On Broadway January 23, 2008
Fractal Architecture (Helios House) January 11, 2008
Theatrical Excess (The Loyola Theater, 1946, Clarence J. Smale) December 13, 2007
Painting the Past December 7, 2007
Griffith Observatory November 5, 2007
A Brief Architectural Tour of the Hollywood Twenties September 24, 2007
Hollywood Gothic July 24, 2007
Getting Art Deco Right (Bullocks Wilshire) July 15, 2007
Everyday Art Deco (Wilshire Tower, 5500 Wilshire Boulevard) June 25, 2007
Art Deco Jewel (Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard) June 27, 2007
1930 Art Deco Now June 5, 2007
Architectural Angles - March 22, 2007
A Serious Building - 4 March 2007
Wilshire Mixer - 4 March 2007
1929 - Architectural Detailing - 19 November 2006
Landmark Architecture - The Long Beach Monster - 5 November 2006 Architectural Note - Different Times - 5 November 2006 1927 Rococo Madness - The Avalon Hollywood, 1735 North Vine, Hollywood - a Rococo Palace - 8 October 2006 Verticals - the Equitable Building - 1929, by Alexander Curlett, on the northeast corner of Hollywood and Vine - 8 October 2006
Hollywood Architecture - The North Harper Avenue Historic District - 1 October 2006
Fine Living in Hollywood's Golden Age - 20 August 2006 Color - Pink Trashy Walls - 20 August 2006 Architectural Details - 30 July 2006 An Office: Just what it should look like... - 23 July 2006 Architecture: Hollywood in the Twenties (four nested pages) - 16 July 2006
Architecture: Good Old Buildings (four pages, four styles) - 2 July 2006
Architecture: Folk Art - 25 June 2006 Architecture: Architectural Detail and Hollywood History - 11 June 2006 Architecture: One Of The Finest Examples Of Art Deco Architecture In The United States (The Wiltern) - 7 May 2006 Architecture: At the Walt Disney Concert Hall - 23 April 2006 Zigzag Time - 2 April 2006 Old Art Deco Hollywood - 2 April 2006 Color - The Pacific Design Center - 26 March 2006 The Getty Center: Architectural and Cultural Notes with Seven Pages of Photos Architectural Ruins: Ennis House - Frank Lloyd Wright - Los Angeles, 1924 The Wright Stuff: The Frank Lloyd Wright Stoner House in Hollywood (1923) Union Station, Los Angeles Landmark Architecture: On Location at the Bradbury Building Past Glory: Broadway Movie Palaces, Los Angeles Randy's Donuts: The Quintessential LA Landmark Hollywood Landmarks: Worldly and Otherworldly The Good Ship Coca-Cola Ephemera: Catching the Past in Los Angeles Before it Disappears - the Tail O' the Pup Unchanging Los Angeles: Service on Sawtelle Boulevard Close-Up: Hollywood Architectural Detail Old Hollywood: Here, water cascades from the mouths of lions into multiple pools and waterways
. Hollywood Doors: The Private and the Public Modern Architecture: Spatial Ambiguity Whimsical Architecture: Where are the Hobbits? French Hollywood Architectural Notes - a bit of old Hollywood Neighborhood Architecture (Hollywood) Architectural Color: West Side Whimsy Architecture of Note
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