Los Angeles tract housing photo gallery


Village Green Baldwin Hills :: Los Angeles Baldwin Hills :: Los Angeles :: California Baldwin Hills Village :: Los Angeles photo gallery
Village Green 5300 Rodeo Road - Baldwin Hills - Los Angeles Reginald Johnson with Lewis Wilson, Edwin Merrill and Robert Alexander completed Baldwin Hills Village between 1935-1942 during the Roosevelt administration.
Clarence Stein, consulting architect, contributed to the planning and development of the site layout, which
reflects an innovative and humanistic approach in community housing for the automobile age.
Wyvern Wood Housing Project Wyvern Wood 1938 by architects Wetmore + Watson Wyvern Wood :: East 8th + Soto :: Los Angeles :: California Wyvern Wood :: Boyle Heights :: East Los Angeles photo gallery
Wyvern Wood Housing Project East 8th Street + Soto + South Grande Vista - Boyle Heights - Los Angeles
The first affordable public housing project in the Los Angeles area 1938 by architects Wetmore + Watson
William Mead Homes William Mead Homes :: 450 units on 15 acres William Mead Homes William Mead Homes

William Mead Homes 1300 Cardinal + North Main Street + Elmyra Street - Los Angeles - California - USA
450 units of public housing on 15 acres 1942 by Walker + Eisen, Armando Monaco, Marsh Smith + Powell

Tract housing is a style of housing development in which multiple identical, or nearly-identical, homes are built. Tracts are typically found in american suburbs. As a tract housing development only makes use of a few designs, labor costs are reduced because the builders need only learn the skills of constructing a single home design, which can be applied to the other tract homes in the development.
Mar Vista Tract :: The average size of the houses was 1,100 square feet Mar Vista Tract :: The sales price of the homes was about $12,000 Mar Vista Tract :: Landcape designer Garrett Eckbo used a large number of Magnolia, Melaleuca and Ficus trees to create a park-like atmosphere Mar Vista Tract :: Gregory Ain's Mar Vista Tract became the first post-war modern historic district in the City of Los Angeles a.k.a. Historic Preservation Overlay Zone / HPOZ

Mar Vista Tract Moore + Meier + Beethoven Street - Los Angeles - California - United States of America
Cost efficient housing + modern architectural design 1947 GreGorY Ain + Joseph Johnson + Alfred Day
Lincoln Place is an intact example of the low and moderate income rental housing built in Los Angeles after WW II in response to a severe housing shortage Lincoln Place :: 800 rental units on 33 acres www.lincolnplace.net Lincoln Place :: Modernist elements make each building and its surrounding courtyards visually unique

Lincoln Place Elkgrove + Rose Avenues + Lincoln Blvd. - Venice - Los Angeles - California - Estados Unidos
modernist garden apartment complex 1950 by architects Ralph Vaughn + Heth Wharton


The materials used in the home are ordered in bulk, reducing materials costs. Components such as roof trusses are fabricated in factories and installed on site. These practices reduce the final price of the homes, and makes the developers very happy. Architect designed neighborhoods have changed the face of tract housing. While early tract houses were virtually identical, builders have managed to create an illusion of uniqueness in their neighborhoods: Two homes built next to each other might be identical in layout, but have different external facades.






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