Corner View - Typical Architecture

In L.A. there is really no such thing as "typical" architecture although Spanish styles are favored.  In fact, it is a true wonderland of architectural styles because creative developers knew that when the movie business was slow, there were lots of unemployed set builders who could whip them up a French chateau fantasy, a Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs cottage or even a "Lost in Space" futuristic folly.  Los Angeles does have a proud tradition of modernist architecture that I might have told you about before.  We have two Frank Lloyd Wright houses in my neighborhood - the "Hollyhock House" at Barnsdall Park, and the Egyptian inspired Ennis House which is near Griffith Park and on the market.  (But it is literally, crumbling.)  We also have Richard Neutra houses in the neighborhood, Schindler houses, and many more.  The Julius Shulman book and movie that came out last year could tell you a great deal about this.  In this tradition, and nourished by an artistic community excited by the new, the beautiful, the innovative, there are many "young" architects in Los Angeles working in both the East side (my neighborhood) and especially, in Venice and Santa Monica, who are producing whole new neighborhoods of interesting, attractive and green housing in the mid-century/modern vernacular.

Oh and let's not forget.  It was here in Los Angeles that Frank Gehry labored for many many years incubating, developing and refining the ideas and styles that have made him an international architectural superstar.