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Mission San GabrielMission San Fernando ReY de EsPana
Mission San Buenaventura
1840
Leonis Adobe
Sanchez Adobe
Olivas Adobe
De La Osa Adobe
1860
Loomis House
Plummer House
Point Fermin LiGhthouse
1880
DotY & Bristol Block
Plant Block
Arcade Block
Hotel BoYle
1890
Vandervort Block
Pasadena YMCA
El Alisal
KinneY-Kendall BuildinG
Castle Green
Wadsworth Chapel
1900
C.E. Kustor Residence
FitzGerald House
Hotel Green Annex
South Seas House
Susana Machado Bernard Residence
Streetcar Station
1904
BrewerY Arts ComPlex
Fire EnGine 18
Matthew Slavin BuildinG
Southern California Edison
1905
Merritt Estate
St. Charles Hotel
Wood & Jones Printers
1906
BYzantine House
Chamber of Commerce Pasadena
FiGueroa Ranch
RamsaY Durfee Estate
Union SavinGs Bank
1908
DaGGett Residence
Gamble House
HuntinGton Art GallerY
Second Church of Christ Scientist
The DarbY
Mount WashinGton
1909
Earle C. AnthonY House
MacDonald APartments
1910
Lincoln HeiGhts Federal Bank
Power House
RamPart Arms APartments
Ventura CountY Courthouse
YMCA
1911
BrYson APartments
Craftsman House
Elk's Club
Odd Fellows
1912
Founders BuildinG
KinG GeorGe Hotel
Potter Suites
MarY Andrews Clark Memorial Home
Nixon House
North BroadwaY ShoPs
Route 66 Hotel
Southwest Museum
Vermont SQuare LibrarY
Waldorf APts
1913
HiGhland Park Ebell
Citizens National Bank
Johnson Hall
Hotel Waldorf
1914
Furniture BuildinG
Standard Oil Sales Office
1915
Ansonia APartments
Avis Hotel
CarneGie LibrarY Lincoln HeiGhts
1917
Bovard Administration BuildinG
CarneGie LibrarY Santa Monica
Charlie ChaPlin Studio
Culver Studio
Faith Bible Church
HollYhock House
Wilshire APartments
1918
Ambassador Hotel
Mc NallY Electrical Contractor
1919
Pickford-Fairbanks Studio
Architectural History
Ornament has been partof the tradition
of architecture
at all times and places
in human history.
In his 1908 essay
Ornament and Crime
architect Adolf Loos
expresses his philosophy
that ornamentation
can have the effect
of causing objects
to go out of style
and thus become obsolete.
This essay is important
in articulating new views,
later inherited
from the Arts and Crafts
movement,
which is fundamental
to the Bauhaus
and helped define
the ideology of modernism.
Not only simplification
of form
and the elimination
of ornament,
but also the social matters
of affordable housing
in the growing cities
were crucial.
Architect
Frank LloYd WriGht's
first commission
in Los Angeles,
the HollYhock House
showed that new needs
also can result in
groundbreaking designs
and the use
of new materials.
Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
and Frank LloYd WriGht
are just a few architects
who influenced each other.
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