Arch 444: Great Houses of Los Angeles

Professor: Victor Regnier FAIA

Class: 6:30-9:50 Th, Harris 101

6 Site Visits--Saturdays (start at 9 or 10AM—end at noon or 1PM—unless otherwise noted):

Gamble--September 18th @ 9:00AM; Barnsdall+Freeman—October 9th @ 9AM; Schindler—October 16th @ 10:45AM; Neutra/VDL—October 30th @ 9AM; Lautner+Eames—November 6th @ 10AM; and Koenig (2 houses)—November 13th @ 10AM.
Introduction:

This course focuses on the work of seven noteworthy architects who practiced in southern California in the early to middle 20th century. The course introduces students to the significance of their work through critical readings that reveal the ideas and intentions behind their work and their impact on the history of architecture in southern California. Case study visits to southern California houses designed by each of these architects allow students to study these settings and thus interpret the meaning of the architect's intentions through direct experience. The focus of the course will be on how the work of these significant architects relate to specific architectural principles. Nine site visits to individual houses will take place in combination with selected readings presented and discussed in lecture format with images.

Students will be expected to write short essays that contrast the architects' intentions with their own understanding and comprehension of visited works. Students will write a short evaluation essay about three of the nine houses/7 architects they study/visit. A 10-page research paper can be substituted for one of the evaluation papers. For this paper, the student must select a research topic approved by the instructor related to materials covered in the course.
Required Readings:

Books Available in the USC Book Store for Purchase and SAFA library

(3-hour reserve)

Bosley, Edward, The Gamble House, London: Phaidon Press, 1992. ($14.95)

Koenig, Gloria, Eames, Koln: Taschen, 2005 ($9.99)

Lamprecht, Barbara, Neutra, Koln: Taschen, 2004 ($9.99)

Jackson, Neil. Koenig, Koln: Taschen, 2007, ($9.99)

Campbell-Lange, Barbara-Ann, Lautner, Koln: Taschen, 2005, ($9.99)

Alexander, Christopher, S. Ishikawa, M. Silverstein, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,

Campbell-Lange, Barbara-Ann, John Lautner, New York: Taschen, 1999.

Ching, Francis D.K., Architecture: Form, Space, and Order, Second Edition, New York:

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996.

Chusid, J. "Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile Block System" in Concrete in California, Los

Angeles: USC School of Architecture, 1990.

Escher, F., John Lautner, Architect, London: Artemis London Limited, 1994.

Futagawa, Yukio, GA Houses 32, 1993 (Lautner--pages 8-85).

Hess, A. The Architecture of John Lautner, New York: Rizzoli, 1999.

Hines, T., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, New York: Rizzoli, 2010.

Hines, T., Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture, Berkeley: University of

California Press 1982.

Koeper, Frederick, The Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House I and II,

Pomona, CA: California State University, Pomona, 1985.

McCoy, Esther, Case Study Houses (1945-62), Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1977.

Makinson, Randell, Greene and Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art, Salt Lake City: Peregrine

Smith, 1977.

Moor, Abby, Californian Textile Block, London: PRC Publishers, 2002.

Moore, Charles, Gerald Allen and Donlyn Lyndon, The Place of Houses, New York: Holt,

Rinehart and Winston, 1974.

Rasmussen, Steen Eiler, Experiencing Architecture, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1959.

Smith, Kathryn, Schindler House, New York: Abrams, 2001

Steele, James, Eames House, London: Phaidon Press, 1994

Steele, James, Schindler, Koln: Taschen, 2005.

Steele, James, Barnsdall House, London: Phaidon Press, 1992.

Steele, James and D. Jenkins, Pierre Koenig, London: Phaidon Press, 1998.

Steele, James, Los Angeles Architecture: The Contemporary Condition, London: Phaidon Press, 1993.

Sweeney, Robert, Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture, Cambridge: MIT Press,

1994.

Grading:

You will be evaluated on the basis of 3 written assignments, a final exam and class participation/ attendance. The final exam questions will be taken from the readings and class lectures.

+ one research paper (20% each)

2. Final Exam 20%

3. Attendance/Participation (see below) 20%

Total 100%
You are expected to read the assignments prior to class and come prepared to discuss the work and to raise questions from your perspective. If you are not able to attend class, please let me know why you can't attend. Either e-mail me at regnier@usc.edu, FAX a note (310) 474-2718 or leave a voice mail message at (310) 474-9560 (24/7).
My office hours are by appointment only. It is easiest to meet with me after class. My office is on the 3rd floor of Watt Hall Watt 348. I have a mailbox in Watt 204 and this is where you should hand in papers at the end of the semester or between class periods. Jeff Vaglio, a USC Architecture Ph.D student is also available to meet with you about the class and your paper assignments. He is available by appointment only and can be reached at 310 425-9830 (cell) or emailed at vaglio@usc.edu. He is an excellent resource and has taken the class in the past and has been the TA for two subsequent classes. He can be a great help in providing assistance with your papers.

Class Participation

A portion of each class will be set-aside for class discussion. You are expected to come to class prepared to discuss the readings and the field trips. The following are the two specific class participation assignments.

You are expected to write a short evaluation paper on 3 of the 9 buildings we visit. After experiencing the site visit, listening to the lectures, and reading the assigned materials; you should write a 7 double-spaced page essay (photos. diagrams and sketches are included in the page count), which captures your evaluation/analysis of the setting. The handout “Fourteen Helpful Hints for Writing Better Evaluation Papers” is useful to read and follow as a guide to improve your paper. The focus of the paper should be on reconciling the theories, writings, and description of ideas present in the lectures and readings against your own experience of the place. The experience of each setting should include (although need not be limited to) the following criteria:

The research paper will detail a topic raised in the readings or through the site visits. For example, you may be intrigued by Frank Lloyd Wright's experiences in Los Angeles and curious about other work he completed in southern California. This could involve a scholarly paper or a comparative analysis of several other houses. You may find the issue of spatial sequence intriguing and want to gain insight about how it can be viewed across other important residential buildings, which have dealt with this phenomena in unusual and effective ways. There are also a number of other early modernists and case study architects in southern California for which considerable material exists in the library. These include Irving Gill, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Rodney Walker, Buff, Straub and Hensman, Craig Elwood, Quincy Jones, and Bernard Maybeck (northern California). Other architects of note that practiced in California during this same period include Wallace Neff, Raphael Soriano, Julia Morgan and Paul Williams.

Rasmussen (1991), pp. 186-214, (Chapter 8 -- Daylight in Architecture).

Moore, Allen and Lyndon (1974), pp. 71-107, (The Order of Rooms),

Alexander et.al. (1977) Selected Patterns 106, 127-8, 130, 132-3, 135, 138, 159, 161, 163, 166-68, 179-81, 190, 192, 193-4, 196, 199, 202, 222-3, 230, 236, 238, 245, 250,

& 252


September 9th, Thursday: (Week Three)

Principles of Architecture and Assessment Criteria
Required Readings (82 pgs):

Ching (1996), pp. 46-7 (Regular and Irregular Forms); 134-151 (Planes); 152-75 (Closure); 179-87 (Spatial Relationships); 229-253 (Circulation); 338-45 (Hierarchy)

Bosley (2002), pp. 1-21—REQUIRED BOOK

Makinson (1977), pp. 150-87 (The Ultimate Bungalows).
September 18th, Saturday:

SITE VISIT -- Gamble House (9:00AM – 12:00PM)

Guest Curator: Ted Bosley

4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena, CA

91103-3564
September 23rd, Thursday: (Week Five)

NO CLASS
September 30th, Thursday: (Week Six)

NO CLASS
October 7th, Thursday: (Week Seven)

The Barnsdall House + Freeman House of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Southern California

Work and Experience
Required Readings (79 pgs):

Sweeney (1994) pp. 20-42 (Block System), 72-79 (Freeman House)

Chusid (1990) pp. 12-19 (Freeman House)

Steele (1992) pp. 1-21 (Barnsdall House)

Moor (2002) pp. 32-43 (Barnsdall House), 70-81 (Freeman House)
October 9th, Saturday:

SITE VISITS

Guest Curators: Ken Breisch and Gabriel Cifarelli/Nina Marsh

The Barnsdall House (9:00AM-11:00AM)

4808 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027-5302

The Freeman House (11:30AM-1:00PM)

1962 Glencoe Way, Los Angeles CA 90068-3113

Steele (2005) pp. 7-89

Smith (2001), pp. 7-43

October 16th, Saturday:

SITE VISIT –

Guest Discussant: Judith Sheine

The Schindler House (10:45AM to 1:30PM)

835 Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069-5409
October, 21st, Thursday: (Week Nine)

NO CLASS
PAPER #2 DUE (Freeman/Barnsdall)— email or hand deliver to my box by 6PM
October 28th, Thursday: (Week Ten)

The VDL House of Richard Neutra -- The Emerging International Movement in Southern California.

Guest Discussant: Barbara Lamprecht

Required Readings (118 pgs):

Lamprecht (2004) pp. 5-85 REQUIRED BOOK

Koeper (1985) pp. 1-31

Hines (1982), pp. 109-116

2300 Silverlake Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90039-3215

Koenig (2005) pp. 7-17, 32-45, 66-67, 84-89 REQUIRED BOOK

Campbell-Lange (2005) pp. 7-89 REQUIRED BOOK

Steele (1994) pp. 4-24

Campbell-Lange (1999) pp.134-141 (Final Major Projects, pp.150-161 (Sheats-

Goldstein)

Hess, Alan (1999) pp.240-255 (Sheats-Goldstein)

Escher, Frank (1994) pp. 242-251 (Sheats-Goldstein)

Futagawa, Yukio (1991) pp.74-79 (Sheats-Goldstein)
November 6th, Saturday

SITE VISIT— Lautner Sheats-Goldstein and Eames House

Guest Discussant: Duncan Nicholson and Eames Demetrious (if available)

Sheats-Goldstein House (10:00AM-12:00PM)

10104 Angelo View Drive, LA, 90210-2038,
Eames House (12:30PM-2:00PM)

203 Chautauqua, Los Angeles, CA 90272-4404

Jackson (2007) pp. 5-91 REQUIRED BOOK

Steele and Jenkins (1998) pp. 60-71 (CSH #22), 130-37 (Brentwood Tnhse).

McCoy (1977), pp. 116-41 (CSH #21+#22)

Case Study House #22-- (10:00AM-12:00PM)

1635 Woods Dr, West Hollywood, CA 90069-1633
Koenig Townhouse (12:30PM-2:00PM)

12221 Dorothy St, Los Angeles, CA 90049-5220

Steele (1993), pp.73-90. 93-97.

1. 
   Questions/comments from reading
   
2. 
   Observation/take-away/question from site visit
   
3. 
   Email to regnier@usc.edu
   

1. 
   Readings—Gamble House
   

1. 
   Readings—Schindler
   

2. 
   Site Visit—VDL House
   

1. 
   Readings—Koenig
   
2. 
   Site Visit—Eames/CSH#8+Sheats Goldstein House
   

1. 
   Readings—Gehry and the 21^st Century
   
2. 
   Site Visit—CSH#22 and Brentwood Townhouse
   

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University Press, 2002.

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Case Study Houses, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Perez-Mendez, Alfonso, Craig Elwood: 15 Houses, 2G International Architecture Review, #12, 1999.

Perez-Mendez, Alfonso, Craig Elwood: In the Spirit of Time, Barcelona: CG, 2002.

Smith, Elizabeth, Case Study Houses: The Complete CSH Program, Cologne: Taschen, 2002.

Gehry

Arneil, P. & T. Bickford, Frank Gehry: Buildings and Projects, New York: Rizzoli Press, 1985.

Borda, Deborah, Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Concert Hall, New York: Abrams, 2003.

Celant, Germano, Frank O. Gehry: Since 1997, New York: Skira, 2010.

Fialova, Irena, Frank Gehry Vlado Milunic: Dancing Building, Prague: Zlatz Rez, 2003.

Freidman, Mildred, Gehry Talks: Architecture and Process, New York, Universe, 2002.

Friedman M. and S Lavin, Frank Gehry: The Houses, New York: Rizzoli, 2009.

Futagawa, Yukio, Frank O. Gehry, GA Architect 10, 1993.

Gehry, Frank, FOG: Flowing in All Directions, Los Angeles, CIRCA Publishing, 2003.

Isenberg, Barbara, Conversations with Frank Gehry, New York: Knopf, Borzoi Books, 2009.

Joyce, Nancy, Building Stata: The Design and Building of Frank O Gehry’s Stata Center at

Mathewson, Casey, Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works 1969-Today, Canada: Firefly Books, 2007.

Meyer, Esther Da Costa, Frank Gehry: On Line, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Steele, James, Schnabel House, London: Phaidon Press, 1993.

Van Bruggen, Coosje. Frank O Gehry Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Germany: Guggenheim

Foundation, 1997.

Zaera, A., Frank O. Gehry, El Croquis 74/75, 1995.

Other Architects/Modernism

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In this class, attendance is very important. Because much of the learning takes place through the tours we take of important houses, it is imperative that you take class attendance seriously. Having said that, I know many students have complicated schedules and weekends are often the only time available for other important events. Some of the buildings we visit are publically accessible and can be visited outside of the class period. Other assignments are available for “making up” a missed class period but this must be negotiated with the instructor.

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