One family has turned their house green, walls and all. Continue reading
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![[Blog] Heyday’s “Green” Homes: Rock Row to Buzz Court](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/rockrowrendering.jpg?w=290&h=271&crop=1 "[Blog] Heyday’s “Green” Homes: Rock Row to Buzz Court")
[Blog] Heyday’s “Green” Homes: Rock Row to Buzz Court
Los Angeles housing developer The Heyday Partnership put its new project, Buzz Court, on the market less than two months ago. And now? Sold out. It must be a sign of the times — “green” architecture is as good as gold. I learned about Heyday when I wrote a case study of their previous project, Rock Row in Eagle Rock. (Full paper below.) I was impressed that the project incorporated a range of sustainable strategies without compromising aesthetics. Buzz Court seems to evince the same qualities. And Los Angeles is better for it. Continue reading
“Decolonizing Architecture” at REDCAT
There is a place where lines on maps are no longer ink marks, but physical entities. Where the roofs of houses morph from pitched to flat, and form community space. And where concrete military buildings transform into bird sanctuaries. The place was the gallery at REDCAT, a theater space attached to Walt Disney Concert Hall … Continue reading
[Oxy Weekly] Robert Winter: A Legendary Educator
Robert Winter, a retired Oxy professor, architecture enthusiast, and charismatic speaker, radiated excitement during a lecture given to 31 Oxy students in his own living room. Art History and Visual Arts Professor Amy Lyford has brought her “Modern Architecture” class to hear Winter talk about Arts and Crafts architecture. It was a short trip on the Bengal Bus; Oxy is only a few miles from Winter’s Pasadena home overlooking the Arroyo Seco. Like many of Pasadena’s architecturally significant dwellings, it has a name – the Batchelder House, in recognition of its architect and first resident, the esteemed tilemaker Ernest Batchelder…. Continue reading
[Oxy Weekly] The Victorian Los Angeles
A journey one hundred years back to the age of kerosene lamps and cross-country train expeditions, preserved in central Los Angeles By: Daina Beth Solomon Issue date: 11/25/08 Section: Features What is that cluster of Victorian buildings by the Arroyo Seco that drivers see from the Pasadena Freeway? A movie set? A Victorian-style theme park? … Continue reading
Lotusland Chronicles 