Architecture

Review: 'Marriage of Figaro' a wedding of many talents

2013-05-20 05:00:00

Jean Nouvel, the French architect, is credited with creating "installations" for the Los Angeles Philharmonic production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," although "transformations" would be more accurate. Azzedine Ala�a designed the striking...

Tyre House: Cool elegance and the art of A. Quincy Jones

2013-05-18 06:00:00

The Tyre House, designed by A. Quincy Jones in the 1950s and recently restored by the Silver Lake architecture firm Escher GuneWardena, is a dreamy testament to Los Angeles' age of cool. Step inside the house's expansive, all-white living area and an 11-...

Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House

2013-05-18 09:07:00

Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...

A. Quincy Jones, overlooked genius? Hammer Museum makes the case

2013-05-17 16:19:00

The Hammer Museum exhibition opening May 25, "A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living," redresses what curators consider a major omission in the history of Los Angeles Modernism. Jones, they argue, had as much, if not more, influence on Southern...

L.A. artists, architects' effect on each other at MAK Center exhibit

2013-05-16 06:00:00

"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. And its timing could hardly be better. The exhibition at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, curated by UCLA architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin, is a wry study of the ways Los Angeles artists and...

L.A. Philharmonic concerned about potential subway noise

2013-05-17 06:12:00

Nothing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's repertoire calls for 135-ton trains. The orchestra aims to keep it that way when Metro light rail cars start rumbling through a subway tunnel near Walt Disney Concert Hall. Experts who know the hall's...

'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century

2013-05-17 06:11:00

Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...

LACMA executives to move to high-rise across street

2013-05-09 05:00:00

The top brass of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will have a lofty view of the much-touted $650-million makeover of the museum's Wilshire Boulevard campus after they move across the street to a new perch in a high-rise office tower. Executive...

A journalist remembers Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez

2013-05-06 12:45:00

Architecture and journalism, like politics, sometimes make strange bedfellows. Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, the great Mexican builder who died April 16 at age 94, was responsible for many of the monumental public works that defined the Modernist look and...

Pasadena Heritage home tour goes Modern

2013-05-10 07:25:00

The preservation group Pasadena Heritage takes a turn toward the Modern when it hosts a May 19 tour of six homes built after 1940. Stops will include homes by Lloyd Wright, Harold Zook, Ted Tyler and Lawrence Test, plus two houses by the iconic...

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum returns to form, with light and life

2013-05-05 05:30:00

AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a recent spring morning, while producers negotiated with publicists for time to shoot spots in front of Rembrandt's...

Sitting down with Ian Callum, Jaguar's style master

2013-05-03 06:00:00

Jaguar’s design director, the Scottish-born Ian Callum, was in Los Angeles in late April� to accept the BritWeek Design Icon award for his contributions to British design. BritWeek is an annual celebration of British contributions to architecture...

Jennifer Mowen, has been named senior associate with Greenberg Farrow, an architecture, planning, engineering and development consulting firm. Mowen, of Aurora, has worked as a client manager in Greenberg Farrow�s Chicago office. She joined the firm 12 years ago.

2013-04-22 11:40:00

Steve Blye has joined Legat Architects as senior design director and associate director of health care. In the former role, Blye will lead planning efforts, collaborative design charrettes and conceptual development of a variety of faciliies.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Chicago architectural and interior design firm TVSDesign, has added designer Lee Ann Burkhart to its Chicago office and healthcare studio. She has more than eight years' experience in designing healthcare, wellness and worship projects.

2013-04-15 09:15:00