"Reality is a thing in which we can all repose, even if it hardly seems related to anything at all." -GKC
The Clark Library by R.D. Farquhar 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 didn't just shape Southern California's urban social fabric, he helped define it.
Discover a little more of this enduring Southern California placemaker, with a selection of projects that includes Miraflores, the Jefferson Estate (1915), All Saints Episcopal Church ('23), Hale Solar Laboratory ('24), the Biltmore Hotel ('27), Good Samaritan Hospital ('27), the UCLA Chancellor's Residence ('30), the U.S. Post Office Santa Barbara ('37), and Baldwin Hills Village ('42).
a place for place makers
The success of architecture in Southern California is the success of architecture.
Discretion's value is undeniable, but too much recognition is too long overdue. Southern California has been celebrating architecture for a very long, very fashionable time.
seriously, you must be dreaming
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