Richard Neutra

Silver Lake Millennials War With Boomers in America's "Most Livable" Community

Blue satin streamers

A Tour Through the L.A. That Could Have Been

Jewish L.A.: 5 People Who Helped Shape the City's History, From the Autry's New Exhibit

Jewish history in turn-of-the-century America usually conjures up images of deeply religious East Coast garment district workers or greased-back, penny-pinching Old Hollywood studio moguls. The Autry National Center attempts to break down this second stereotype with its latest exhibit, "Jews in the ... More >>

What Office Trailers Can Teach Us About Los Angeles

A new exhibit at the Center for Land Use Interpretation glorifies the utilitarian

Schindler House Transforms Into a Visitors Center for an Exhibit About How We Travel

Top 10 L.A. Architecture Stories of 2012

We spend most of the year criticizing Los Angeles' ugly buildings and other unfortunate aspects of the local built environment. Here's our chance to rundown some of the thoughtful, inspiring and downright stellar projects that make us L.A. proud, and that make our burg a better place in general.

Newhall Ranch vs. Judge Ann I. Jones

Investors behind a vast proposed neo-suburb try to oust a watchful judge

The Secret Life of Eero Saarinen, Architect of the St. Louis Arch and...the White House War Room?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Eero Saarinen's fingerprints are all over mid-century design's greatest hits, and even if you can't pronounce his name, you definitely know his ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Castle in the Clouds

This week, a performance artist celebrates a jazz singer, a Parisian artist celebrates a German-born architect and an iconic L.A. gallery says goodbye with the same savvy it's always had. 5. Everyone onstage Abbey Lincoln played a black maid in the 1968 film For Love of Ivy -- not a bit part but th ... More >>

Xavier Veilhan Has Been Living in a Historic Neutra House and Putting Sculptures All Over the Place

In some circles in L.A., mid-century architecture is sacred -- never to be modified, altered, or renovated. Richard Neutra's VDL Research House II, overlooking the reservoir in Silver Lake and built by the architect for his own family, is considered iconic here. Now owned by Cal Poly Pomona, the 2,0 ... More >>

Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 Iconic Works of California Design on Sale Sunday

Courtesy of Los Angeles Modern AuctionsRichard Neutra's VDL House in Silver Lake, photographed by Julius Shulman in 1966. A print of this image, and some of the furniture photographed, are up for auction this weekend. Life in sepia remains unavailable.​In the material world, the past is never ... More >>

People in Glass Houses Throw Salons

Richard Neutra Home For Sale in Beverly Hills Being Advertised as a 'Tear Down'

TimeRichard Neutra.​Now, if you lived in a normal city in America, a Richard Neutra house would be considered a collectible, a classic, a work of art, a landmark, even. But apparently the Viennese architect's work rates only as a "tear down" in tony Beverly Hills. That's right, a recent, $14 ... More >>

El Machete Real

Best of L.A.: Places

Castles in the Sky Poll

Curbed L.A. today features a bit of architectural whimsy -- not in the form of Buck Rogers-like blueprints imagined during the 1930s, but a list of city projects that never saw the light of day and which would make cool destinations on a iPhone GPS application. Some are dead and buried projects such ... More >>

Architecture Exhibit

IAMX's Chris Corner on Album Leaks, Art and A History of the Mind

Janine Gebauer In a few short years, IAMX, the dark, electronic pop project of Sneaker Pimps co-founder Chris Corner, has developed an intense cult following. Back in 2007, his shows at Safari Sam's sold out with little in the way of major press. At LA nightclubs, selectors like DJ Xian regularly s ... More >>

A. Quincy Jones: High and Low

Modernist architect sought luxury on a budget

Outliving the Bastards

Frank Wilkinson, 1914–2006

Dead End Kids, Celebrity Air and Scandinavians — Especially Norwegians

People in Glass Apartments

Living a stone’s throw away from an architectural masterpiece

Revising Los Angeles’ DNA

The perfect apartment balcony beats any ranch tract house

Light and Open

The Schindler House searches for a perfect neighbor

A Letter from Jerusalem If You Cannot Breathe, Raise Your Hand

This Year's Modern

Sex & Beauty, Art & Kitsch

The exquisite mayhem of Benedikt Taschen

Inside/Outside

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler and Shaping the Great City

The Coffee Table

Our annual capitulation to last-minute, support-your-local-bookstore holiday commercialism

Barry McCaffrey’s Goodbye Tour

Speed

How L.A. changed the way we — and everyone else — shop

Hollywood Ups and Downs

Squinting at the Future

Playa Vista is the Westside's housing of tomorrow