Architectural History of Los Angeles

If you are considering shopping for your dream home in Los Angeles, you can't help but be amazed at the vast architectural legacy and landscape of the city. Regardless of the specifics, that dream lives within an historical and architectural context that can and should be contemplated. Very few shoppers, and even few realtors, know very much about what [...]

Since Los Angeles really came into it’s own in the 20th Century, let us begin then in 1900. By that year Los Angeles had experienced a number of “mini” booms and busts in the latter part of the 19th Century. However, by 1900 the City of Angels was here to stay, and by 1910 was booming yet again. That [...]

The armistice ending World War I was signed on November, 11 1918, and the world was radically changed. The old monarchies of Europe were mostly swept away, and with them lifestyles and mores shifted across Europe and America. Within a short time the United States was booming again, and an even more dramatic economic expansion was underway in Los [...]

The decade of the 1940s saw much less construction as a result of World War II, however, the decade is indeed an important transitional one. Unlike New York, and many other Eastern and Midwestern cities, where construction ground to a complete halt, some significant buildings were erected in Los Angeles – but more about that later. Jumping ahead, [...]

Although there are examples of Postmodern design that date from as early as the 1950s, the movement really achieved momentum in the early 1970’s. The term Postmodernism is really quite broad, including many types of houses, ranging from contemporary homes closely related to the International Style, to modern “takes” on traditional revival styles. One of the most important [...]