DESN 232 — RAPID VIZ I | FALL 2019 | T/TH 4:00–6:45PM
LA - DTLA & vicinity
Bradbury Building, DTLA / (appears in the film Bladerunner)
The Broad Museum, DTLA / Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
CalTrans Building, DTLA / Morphosis
Capitol Records Building, Hollywood / Welton Becket
Chemosphere House, 7776 Torreyson Dr, LA 90046 / John Lautner
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, DTLA / Rafael Moneo
Disney Concert Hall, DTLA / Frank Gehry
Emerson College on Sunset Blvd, Hollywood / Morphosis
Ennis House, Silverlake area / FLW (used in the film Bladerunner)
High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, DTLA / Coop Himmelblau
Hollyhock House. Frank Lloyd Wright
Lovell House, Los Feliz area, near Griffith Park / Richard Neutra
Lautner House in LACMA collection
MOCA, DTLA / Arata Isozaki
Pacific Design Center / Cesar Pelli
Petersen Automotive Museum / KPF
Prada Store, Beverly Hills / OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Stahl House / Pierre Koenig
United Oil Gas Station, Robertson Blvd, Beverly Hills / Kanner Architect
LA - Eastern (Pasadena, Pomona, Claremont, Palm Springs)
Art Center South Campus, DT Pasadena / Kevin Daly of Daly/Genik
Art Center of Pasadena, hillside campus / Craig Ellwood
Art Center, Sinclaire Garden Pavilion / Hodgetts + Fung
Diamond Ranch HS, Pomona / Morphosis
Kravis Center at Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont / Rafael Viñoly Architects
Roberts Pavilion at Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont / JFAK Architects
LA - Westside (Culver City, Venice, Santa Monica) and Southside
Chiat-Day Building in Santa Monica / Frank Gehry Assoc.
Eames House, Santa Monica Mountains area / Charles & Ray Eames House
The Getty Center Museum, Santa Monica / Richard Meier & Partners
LAX Theme Building / Pereira and Luckman, 1961
LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal / Fentress Architects
UCLA, Eli Broad Art Center / Richard Meier & Partners
Samitaur Tower, Culver City / Eric Owen Moss, and various others by EOM
Spiller House, 39 Horizon Way, Venice, CA / Frank Gehry
Watts Towers of Simon Rodia, State Historic Park, Watts, Inglewood or Compton / Simon Rodia
Long Beach Area
Aquarium of the Pacific. HOK. 1998
Carpenter Center and Music Conservatory, the, on campus
California Veterans Memorial State Office Building, Brutalism, Gibbs Architects. 1983
International Elementary School. Morphosis with Thomas Blurock Architects. 1999. 700 Locust Ave at 7th St
Killingsworth, Brady & Smith projects, various
Matlock House. Richard Neutra. 1952. 1560 Ramillo Ave
New Courthouse, Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse
Pine Street and area historic district
The Pike area
The marina areas
The port and Queen Mary
Long Beach Performing Arts Center
Long Beach City Hall and Library
Villa Riviera Tower. Richard D. King. 1929
There are some unique and historically interesting buildings on
2nd Street but much of it is of little architectural interest.
The Campus Pyramid would be the most uninteresting architectural work to investigate
Orange County
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), Anaheim / HOK
Coastline Community College, Newport Beach/Costa Mesa / LPA Inc
Crystal Cathedral, Anaheim / Philip Johnson & John Burgee
Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach / Rudolph Schindler
Newport Beach Civic Center and Library at Fashion Island / Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson
Oakley Factory HQ, Foothills Ranch / Colin Baden with Langdon Wilson International
Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts, Costa Mesa / Cesar Pelli
Segerstrom Center for the Arts Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and Samueli Theater, Costa Mesa / Richard Meier
San Diego / LaJolla
Geisel Library at UCSD / Pereira & Assoc
Salk Institute at UCSD in LaJolla / Louis Kahn
Scripps Neurosciences Research Institute at UCSD in LaJolla / Todd Williams & Bille Tsien (seen in the film The Cell w/J Lo; horror, sci-fi, thriller film)
ALTERNATIVE IDEAS/CONCEPTS WHICH MAY BE CONSIDERED
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