Famous Homes on the Market
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An architectural goldmine, Dennis Hopper’s Venice Beach house is listed at $6,495,000—and boasts the features to back its price. With a spacious main house by Brian Murphy and three two-story condos by Frank Gehry, the compound encompasses five parcels of land, with over 10,000 square feet of living space spread across the estate’s various buildings. And located in the heart of Venice—just blocks from the Main Street strip—this seaside gem really makes for “easy riding.” Check out the listing here. -
Horn by Guillian Graves, a student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris, France. On display at the California College of the Arts's Wattis Institute galleries April 16-24, 2010, as part of the The Way Beyond Art: Sunny Memories exhibition. Photo by Tonatiuh Ambrosetti & Daniela Droz. -
Famed Southern California residential architect Rex Lotery designed this glowing 3,779 square foot home in 1996, implementing tall cathedral ceilings, spacious living spaces and innovative window placement, accentuating the play of light as the sun moves over the hilly 1+ acre property.The bedrooms feature dramatic picture windows with mountain views of the Montecito hills. Other features include two fireplaces, a remodeled kitchen, hardwood and stone flooring, and for the creative tenants—an art studio. See the metallic mansion here -
A registered Historic-Cultural Monument, the Silver Lake How House designed by Rudolph M. Schindler in 1925 has two separate geometric parts: the upper portion is constructed of redwood and the lower portion is constructed of slab-cast concrete scored to match the pattern of the redwood portion. Renovated in 2004 by Jeff Fink, the angular abode features a garden designed by architect Richard Neutra and many built-ins and unique pieces of furniture.A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler was among the first wave of modern architects to make their names in America. Best known for his exploration of three-dimensional space, this early-20th century architect designed over 400 projects, most of which are in Southern California. Check it out. -
Influential Southern-California architects Gregory Ain and Pierre Koenig both made their mark on this funky mid-century home in Los Angeles. Priced at just below $2,000,000, this 16,850 square foot lot features a main house designed by Ain in 1952, and a recently-built Koenig-designed steel beamed guesthouse, which was incidentally one of his last projects.We love the use of sliding glass walls and clerestory windows. The icing on the cake? A bright red door against soft grey exterior hues. See more photos and the listing here. -
Texan homebuyers are in for a treat: Frank Lloyd Wright’s sole Houston home is on the market. This geometric godsend features a windowless front wall, tall panes of glass in back, and Usonian-style bricks. Wright’s 1954 original design was a parallelogram, aiming for no right angles (which was the case until a previous owner added Ionic columns).Originally 1,800 square feet, the Bunker Hill Village Usonian design has been expanded to an 8,000 plus square foot home with 6 bedrooms and 7.5 baths. The expansion was built around an outdoor center courtyard, featuring a swimming pool and plenty of outdoor living space. It has a recently-reduced price tag of $2,000,000. Interested? Check out the listing. -
Seen in The Fugitive (1993), this Chicago-Lincoln Park home features four stories of pure luxury. Featuring 5 bedrooms (3 of which are master bedroom suites with fireplaces, saunas and elevators), an attached 3-car garage, a roof deck and indoor pool, it lacks almost nothing—well, except Harrison Ford. Can’t have everything! Interested anyway? View the property here.
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Silverlake / Los Feliz Mid-Century Architecture Tour
The MAK Center will present its Architecture Tour 2009 by featuring seven mid-century residences dating from 1926 through 1964.
The list of houses on the tour include:
How House, R.M. Schindler, 1926
McAlmon House, R.M. Schindler, 1935
Avenel Homes Cooperative, Gregory Ain, 1946-48
Schrage House, Raphael Soriano, 1951
Alexander House, Harwell Harris, 1940-41
Hansen House, Harwell Harris, 1950-51
Moore House, Craig Ellwood, 1964The tour is designed to be "self-drive," but shuttle bus and lunch options are available for an additional fee.
Shuttle Bus - $60 in addition to ticket price
Lunch - $18.50 in addition to ticket and/or shuttle bus price
Urban Usonian
It might have seemed like an oxymoron to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s a reality in this Boston photographer’s flat, designed to fit into a preexisting 1,500-square-foot space.
Mak Center Architecture Tour
This architecture tour will feature six modernist residences recorded by acclaimed architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009). Homes by R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, Raphael Soriano (Shulman's longtime residence) and Carl Louis Maston will be included:
Lovell Health House (1929), Richard Neutra
Kun House (1936), Richard Neutra
Gold House (1945), R.M. Schindler
Hillside House (1948), Carl Louis Maston
Shulman House (1950), Raphael Soriano
Gantert House (1981), Pierre Koenig
The Best of Small Spaces
Small spaces have been on our mind (check out our June 2009 "Think Smaller" issue), and they’ve also been on the minds of the American Institute of Architects.
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