2024-12-22T23:43:24-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/92488673/on-sunset-boulevard-a-striking-example-of-brutalism Nam Henderson 2014-01-31T00:00:00-05:00 >2014-02-03T14:11:50-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/j6/j6hkyixynkso851c.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Mr. Bridges, averse to the financial risks of the building industry and feeling his interests move elsewhere, left architecture for academia. His lasting mark as an architect and the work for which he is best known, even if anonymously, is the house he wakes up in every morning</p></em><br /><br /><p>Steven Kurutz profiles a home familiar to many Los Angelenos, but whose architect since turned academic,&nbsp;Robert Bridges, perhaps is not. Located just before the&nbsp;Pacific Palisades off Sunset Boulevard, it is a "concrete-pillared house"&nbsp;many have driven by.</p><p>h/t&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/bldgblog/status/429086213887119360" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bldgblog</a></p>