2024-12-22T06:36:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/79527323/randell-makinson-dies-at-81-greene-greene-preservation-advocate Quasimotor 2013-08-15T14:43:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wk/wkpg6uruhvbrv1zc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Randell Makinson, a forceful advocate for preservation of the rambling Greene &amp; Greene bungalows that came to be seen as graceful emblems of early 20th century California, has died. He was 81.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Randell Makinson is an important force of the architectural preservation community not only for Los Angeles but for California in general before there was LA Conservancy and preservation boards. An authority of Greene &amp; Greene Architecture who has written 5 books on their work and also contributed to Esther McCoy seminal work "Five California Architects". &nbsp;</p>