Irving Gill, Homer Laughlin and the Beginnings of Modern Architecture in Los Angeles

2018-04-02T18:26:00-04:00

Gill, for Christ's sake, get your hair cut.-FLW

If you think architecture has a dense web of characters and influences now, read So. Cal's arch historian John Crosse's account of the development of modernism in Los Angeles, going all the way to Adler & Sullivan's prestigious office in the Auditorium Building in Chicago.

Front elevation, George Steckel Residence, Normandie Ave. near 4th St., Los Angeles, 1910. Courtesy of UC-Santa Barbara Architecture and Design Collections, Irving Gill Archive.

"The evolution of modernism in Los Angeles architecture can arguably be traced back to the Auditorium Building offices of Adler & Sullivan in the early 1890s. The Auditorium Building was Adler & Sullivan's crowning achievement and met with rave reviews in the local and national press and trade journals as setting the bar for buildings of its typology upon its 1889-90 completion. The now famous partners and their chief draftsman Frank Lloyd Wright excitedly moved their offices into their masterpiece of engineering and interior design's tower ...

Pauline Gibling Schindler: Vagabond Agent for Modernism

2010-07-21T16:26:00-04:00

With his fascinating blog entry in 'Southern California Architectural History,' historian John Crosse documents the giant role of the underrated heroine of modernism in So. California, Pauline Gibling Schindler, the wife of famed architect R. M. Schindler, had on spreading it socially, as a journalist and as a curator.

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Irving Gill, Homer Laughlin and the Beginnings of Modern Architecture in Los Angeles

Pauline Gibling Schindler: Vagabond Agent for Modernism