Frank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier as a force for nature?

2013-06-15 06:00:00

NEW YORK — It's easy to imagine that "Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes," a vast, dense and beautifully installed new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, began as a kind of parlor game. You can almost picture the curators, Jean-Louis...

Found: R.M. Schindler's hidden church

2013-06-02 00:00:00

Rudolph Schindler is L.A.'s prototypical Modernist architect. His house on King's Road (the MAK Center now) is a public monument. Design magazines gush over Schindler restorations. Curbed LA, online, tracks the Schindler real estate market. And the...

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...

James Turrell shapes perceptions

2013-05-11 08:00:00

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...

Review: '10 Buildings That Changed America' is a rewarding tour

2013-05-11 07:00:00

The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. In a single breezy hour, it moves from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Gehry, racing in a chronological blur past Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi and a handful of other...

TV Picks: 'Family Tree,' 'Nashville,' '10 Buildings,' 'The Middle'

2013-05-09 14:50:00

"Family Tree" (HBO, premieres Sunday). Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him. The director of "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" and one of the forces behind and in "This Is Spinal Tap" -- in which he was Nigel Tufnel, whose amplifier went...

Paolo Soleri dies at 93; architect of innovative city Arcosanti

2013-04-10 13:50:00

Paolo Soleri, an Italian-born architect who created a visionary prototype for a new kind of ecologically sensitive city in the remote Arizona desert four decades ago, only to watch the suburban sprawl he detested begin to creep near it in recent years,...

Southern California architecture: the missing early years from PSTP

2013-04-06 07:00:00

Two years ago, when the Getty Trust helped organize and fund more than five dozen exhibits on 20th century art in Los Angeles, a massive enterprise it labeled "Pacific Standard Time," it wasn't difficult to guess which era the museum would focus on. It...

Sowden House in Los Feliz for sale at $4.9 million

2013-03-28 12:53:00

The storied Sowden House in Los Feliz is for sale at $4.888 million. Set behind gates and obscured from the street by heavy foliage, the residence has sometimes been called the Jaws house for its Mayan temple-like fa�ade. Typical of Lloyd Wright...

With modern architecture spotlighted, PST series looks beyond landmarks

2013-03-08 06:00:00

There's sure to be much to pore over in "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990," the ambitious anchor show of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time series on modern architecture in and around Los Angeles. But it's on the periphery of this giant...

Proposed tower for Phoenix resembles Apple Maps' drop pin

2013-01-16 12:35:00

An observation tower that has been proposed as a landmark for downtown Phoenix is being dubbed the "Big Pin" because of its likeness to that of the drop pins used in the iPhone's Apple Maps app. The tower would be 420 feet tall, and at the top, it would...

Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic

2013-01-08 14:40:00

Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...

Upon its completion in 1888, this 11-story, John W. Root-designed building was the tallest one in the world; today, the Rookery is Chicago's oldest standing high-rise.

2013-06-12 14:30:00

When the Dorland House by Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright, went on the market, Pasadena Heritage Education Director Patty Judy arranged for its inclusion on the May 19 tour.

2013-05-09 16:23:07

That classic Frank Lloyd Wright move -- the low ceiling -- leads from the entry to the airy living room. A blending of traditions can be seen in the way the concrete blocks are juxtaposed with the finely detailed redwood ceiling, doors and windows.

2013-02-04 00:00:00