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What are the 10 most important architecturally designed houses in LA?

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What are the TEN MOST IMPORTANT architecturally designed houses in LOS ANGELES?

Please respond with your profession and geographic location....

Thanks!

 
Sep 18, 06 6:42 pm
silverlake

I smell a homework assignment...

Gamble House - Greene & Greene
Hollyhock House - Frank Lloyd Wright
Storer House - Frank Lloyd Wright
Kings Road House - RM Schindler
Lovell Health House - Richard Neutra
Buck House - RM Schindler
Case Study House #8 - Charles Eames
Case Study House #16 - Craig Ellwood
Stahl House - Pierre Koenig
Gehry House - Frank Gehry

Architect - Downtown, Los Angeles

Sep 18, 06 7:38 pm  · 
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sameolddoctor

"Please respond with your profession and geographic location...."
wtf?

Sep 18, 06 8:09 pm  · 
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rondo mogilskie

If you want to include the demolished, Irving Gill's Dodge House might qualify...

Sep 18, 06 8:29 pm  · 
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i liked the tichler house by schindler. impt, maybe not? but significant because tichler himself lived there for so long. may still. he was there in '04.

regis/[something] house roto did over by their office. also don't know if it's impt, but significant in its adaptive reuse of an industrial building and reuse of found materials.

morphosis' (when rotondi was still there) crawford house made a pretty big splash, as did their alley houses back in the early 80s.

gehry's own house, but also the norton house in venice.

predock's venice house.

eames, most definitely.

i'm an architect in flyover country.

Sep 18, 06 9:01 pm  · 
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Adamus

What about Lautner??? His imaginative and daring houses define LA residential architecture just as much if not more than the previously mentioned architects.

Sep 19, 06 12:27 am  · 
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santa monica

Sorry, but "architecturally designed"?????

Sep 19, 06 1:04 am  · 
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blah

What makes them important?

I am a bid fan of the MIllard house which has a water element lacking in the other Wright textile block houses. Is it more important because of that? Or because of its small size? I think it's like a jewel box. In some respects more like Sullivan's banks that his other houses.

I dunno.

Sep 19, 06 2:28 am  · 
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yeah. forgetting lautner was just stupid on my part. those of his i saw were great. but i don't remember house names. there's one up in the hills kind of sitting out on a promontory (not too far from the chemosphere, which i wouldn't count) that was very good. wolfe, maybe?

Sep 19, 06 7:26 am  · 
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trace™

I like the Lautner house with the pointy bedroom :-)

His circular one is pretty significant, although I never cared for it.

Sep 19, 06 8:54 am  · 
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mdler

they're some sweet Armenian Palaces in Glendale

Sep 19, 06 12:46 pm  · 
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mdler

Lautner's Silvertop in Silverlake

Sep 19, 06 12:46 pm  · 
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mdler

oh yea, I'm an architectural intern in Silverlake...

CSH #21
CSH #22

Sep 19, 06 12:48 pm  · 
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mdler

House of Pies

Sep 19, 06 12:48 pm  · 
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mdler
Sep 19, 06 12:49 pm  · 
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mdler

Ray Kappe's House

Sep 19, 06 12:50 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

l.a.'s statement of having culture and a center...

Sep 19, 06 1:00 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

i just realized...disney hall ain't a house...my bad

Sep 19, 06 1:13 pm  · 
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mdler



house of the lord

Sep 19, 06 2:13 pm  · 
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Marlin

pick any eight houses by architect Cliff May from this book,

throw in the Schindler House, and these things on stilts, off Beverly Glen.


anything else is just name-dropping.

Sep 20, 06 9:15 am  · 
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mdler

any house with lots of cute hipster girls (chg) living in them

Sep 20, 06 12:28 pm  · 
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silverlake

^how about the trader joe's on hyperion? the chg mecca...

Sep 20, 06 2:37 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

the rustic inn is another chg hotspot...
along with fred 62...beware of O.C. hipsters fronting as locals though at fred's

Sep 20, 06 3:06 pm  · 
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llll

Lautner's Goldstein house. It’s important, not just for the name but for our fascination we have with glass in LA. So much of life is experienced looking out the window of our cars and offices, and what a play with glass he did with this home.

The Mak Center is having a tour of a hand full of significant homes on Oct. 1

Sep 20, 06 3:46 pm  · 
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nixietube

Sheats/ Goldstein House- Lautner
Chemosphere- Lautner
Lovell Beach House (if we can go as far South as Newport Beach)- Schindler
Oliver House- Schindler
Ennis Brown House- Wright
Lovell Health House- Neutra
Case Study #8- Eames House
Case Study #16- Craig Ellwood
Case Study # 22/ Stahl House- Pierre Koenig
The Modernique Homes in the Mar Vista Tract- Gregory Ain and Garrett Eckbo(landscape & planning); an excellent example of modernist architecture at a small scale and for the middle class; coupled with pro-social community planning

alternates:
Wolfe House- Schindler (Catalina Island, demolished)
Hollyhock House –Wright (but really Schindler)

but I think a better discussion would be on the diversity of important residential typologies (like the hillside houses on stilts off of Beverly Glen- progeny of Neutra’s disavowed “Deck Houses”?)

Los Angeles, architect

Sep 21, 06 11:01 pm  · 
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silverlake

||||, the glass in the Goldstein House is interesting because it was originally designed to be completely open under the waffle roof. For obvious reasons, he added glass into the design....

Sep 22, 06 12:19 am  · 
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silverlake

oh yeah, its also important because the Dude got drugged there...

Sep 22, 06 12:20 am  · 
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bRink
pitt house
Sep 22, 06 12:27 am  · 
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llll

Craig Ellwood's Kubly House in Pasadena...Meisian in character but I'm not sure if anyone was drugged there.

Sep 22, 06 11:17 am  · 
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