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Architecture has a long life span. What we build and create says multitudes about what we value. See the stories that are shaping the landscape of Los Angeles and beyond.

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Hollyhock house still from Frank Lloyd Wright AB s9
Although Wright’s textile block houses represent only a small fraction of his total architectural output, he used their design to explore the same broad themes and ideas that consistently held his interest throughout his seven-decade architectural career.
A Rare Look at Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House
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The Hollyhock House is perhaps one of the most viewed of Frank Lloyd Wright homes.
A Walk Through the 'Blade Runner' House
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The Ennis House is the last of Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block houses in Los Angeles.
Walk Through One of LA's Earliest Frank Lloyd Wright Homes
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The Millard House was Wright's earliest known attempt to build using textile blocks.
The Big Orange: Great Park, Orange County | Joe Wolf via Flickr
The Orange County Great Park could have been an idyllic oasis in overbuilt Orange County, CA had its original plans been achieved, but there is still opportunity to turn its fortunes around.
LACE necklace | Caleb Kuhl
This year is a pivotal one for Oyler Wu, with projects like Wu’s Catena necklace, recently acquired as part of the permanent collection at LACMA, as well as their first completed large-scale structure in Taipei opened just months ago.
South Park | Courtesy of Fletcher Studio
Most of Isamu Noguchi's playscapes remained undeveloped in his lifetime. But today, major public spaces are taking their cue from the iconic designer.
Round House, ca. 1885. While still the Garden of Paradise or soon after, the Old Round House veranda and porch were enclosed with siding, turning it into a 12-sided structure. Photograph courtesy of California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries
In the 1850s-70s, an elaborately themed garden surrounded the town's most eccentric building, the Round House.
City Hall after dark
For 36 years, just one structure loomed especially large over Los Angeles' undisturbed horizontality: City Hall.
Tezontle with writer Aris Janigian  installation for "Tu casa es mi casa" | Adam Wiseman PST LALA Tu casa
More than a sharing of aesthetics, the multiple architecture exhibitions uncovered in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA offer insights into individual designers’ approaches to a similar building material, a cultural zeitgeist or mode of political thinking.
Eagle Rock Rec Center overview | Courtesy of Neutra Institute
One of the principal players in the International Style of the 1920-30s, Richard Neutra was a driving force behind mid-century modern architecture that flourished in Southern California. One of his few surviving civic projects is in need of a facelift.
16x9 Judson Studios at the installation of the world's largest stained glass window | Courtesy of Judson Studios
Judson Studios unveiled the world's largest fused glass window. To pull this major project off, the oldest family-run art glass company in the world, had to take their operations and this 12th-century art form into the 21st century.
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