"Reality is a thing in which we can all repose."
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, AND REAL
McKevett School, Santa Paula, CA
A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD IN BEVERLY HILLS
Charleville Blvd. & Lasky Dr., Beverly Hills, CA.
RARE FRESCOS IN LA
The Clark Library is a rare beaux-arts masterpiece in Los Angeles, from an architect brave enough to challenge conventions that didn't exist in his time.
NOT TO YIELD
Reginald Johnson: Hale Solar Laboratory ('24), the Biltmore Hotel ('27), Good Samaritan Hospital ('27), the U.S. Post Office Santa Barbara ('37), Baldwin Hills Village ('42), and more.
a place for place makers
The success of architecture in Southern California is the success of architecture, and Southern California has been celebrating architecture for a very long time.
seriously, you must be dreaming
Please take a moment to remember and give thanks for Simeon Charles Lee. No ideal is perfect, but buildings can't be designed without them. Here are his Los Angeles, Fox, and Tower: three imperfect and wonderfully made California places.
DO BUILDINGS HAVE MEANINGS?
AN AMERICAN CITY
When good cities are designed, preference blesses and enlarges. American urbanism can be more gentle than you might think. Case in point: Santa Paula, CA.
PROGRESS, POETRY, & PLACE
Reginald Johnson is the first California architect to have received the AIA National Award for Architecture, in 1920, for Miraflores near Santa Barbara.
Like writing, drawing is a cognitive process unto itself, the place where the hand, heart, and mind collaborate in pursuit of discovery. Rest well, eat well, draw what you see.
Undwel is a place of reflection, inspiration, and discovery for creative place-makers. Within every great building, room, city, or town, there is the same spirit of life and invention that makes time and sacrifice worthwhile. Here's to the pursuit of the universal dwelling.
gaz
2007-2016