No longer confined to collecting dust in storage rooms, over a thousand slides documenting modern architecture's emergence in Southern California have been digitized by the USC Library, and are now available to view for free online.
The approximately 1300 slides were culled from the collections of Fritz Block and Pierre Koenig, which both belong to the USC Libraries. Koenig himself chose which slides he wanted digitized in the late 1990s, for a project that never fully came to pass, but from which a delightfully dated prototype website is still accessible. The slides feature work by various architects, mostly within Southern California.
Check out the full collection here, and a few select images below:
↑ John Lautner's Foster Residence in Sherman Oaks, from Pierre Koenig's collection.
↑ Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard Residence in Pasadena, from Fritz Block's collection.
↑ Pierre Koenig's Schwartz residence in Santa Monica (1996), from Pierre Koenig's collection.
↑ Albert Frey's Frey Residence in Palm Springs, from Fritz Block's collection.
↑ Pietro Belluschi's Central Lutheran Church in Portland, OR, from Pierre Koenig's collection.
↑ Pierre Koenig's Bailey Residence in West Hollywood, from Pierre Koenig's collection.
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Some nice images here from USC's amazing digital archive. They do terrific work in making all kinds of high-quality historic images available to the world.
I'm not sure that 1923 falls in "mid-century," but thank you for posting these.
SCI Arc used to have some fantastic slide library of the same era. These are great. Thank you.
Great. But odd that they're almost completely disordered ?
I saw the Pietro Belluschi church building in Portland and his one in Eugene (I been inside that one).
Clunky interface - reminds me of 1999 - come on, USC Library, let's enter the 21st century!
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