For fans of the Organic

[kz1000ps]

Hey Beton, just wanted to thank you for these shots. Hadn't been to LA until a month or two ago, but now I'm in and out on a regular basis and can appreciate these photos so much better. I just spent at least 40 minutes absorbing everything in this thread. You the man!

 

[Beton Brut]

Glad you dig it, kz. Congratulations, by the way.

I need to take some time to add some stuff to this thread. And I need to travel more...

 

[Beton Brut]

A worthy curatorial and documentary film project. Dig deeply into those pockets, if you can.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Wooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdddddddddddddddddddddd!

 

[Beton Brut]

The Geller project reached it's funding goal.

Side-note -- A few folks on here, most notably czsz, have bemoaned the three-decker as an architectural typology. I wonder what Geller would be able to do with one of those...

 

[Beton Brut]

Happy Birthday, JL.

 

[Beton Brut]

Faux-Lauter to be auctioned in La Jolla.

 

[kz1000ps]

And Lautner's stunning Carling House is back up for rent -- only $10k a month!

 

[datadyne007]

Archiporn at its finest.

 

[Beton Brut]

Please tell me you took those pics yourself, kz...

 

[kz1000ps]

Haha lord do I wish. No, neither myself nor my camera are capable of anything that gorgeous. And I've yet to do any tours of LA houses, though I will be back there twice this October....hmmmmmm.

 

[datadyne007]

Haha lord do I wish. No, neither myself nor my camera are capable of anything that gorgeous. And I've yet to do any tours of LA houses, though I will be back there twice this October....hmmmmmm.

Lol, I can just picture you trying to convince the rest of the band into going: "C'mon guys, it'll be fun! We'll look at facades, thresholds, integrated furniture, and bathrooms!"

 

[kz1000ps]

^ Yeah, that's half of the rub. The other part is we only have one massive van for 8+ dudes, so I can't really borrow it and fly solo for an afternoon. That, and in this case our vehicle would hate the LA foothills where most of these houses are located.

 

[Beton Brut]

Lautner on NPR.

 

[Beton Brut]

Arkansas -- Who knew...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqB_sl3xnmM&

 

[czsz]

For fans of the organic:

More:

http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/21/ma-yansongs-organic-architecture/

 

[BostonUrbEx]

Revere Beach, circa 2050.

 

[Beton Brut]

Interesting stuff, cz. The museum in Ordos is more than your average blob:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjCHBinnLMw

The Marilyns update Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City.

Revere Beach, circa 2050.

If the scale were right, we could do worse...

 

[Beton Brut]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhQIRNo-kpU

Damn...At 104 Neimeyer's outlived his contemporaries, and his detractors.

 

[Beton Brut]

Epic Win!