An Architect’s Work to Preserve L.A.’s Modernist Crestwood Hills Enclave Starts With Her Own Home

In the 1940s, the Mutual Housing Association created California’s only successful postwar cooperative community. Cory Buckner has restored many of its midcentury masterpieces, including her house by A. Quincy Jones.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s September 2004 issue.

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Sam Grawe
Sam Grawe served as the Editor-in-Chief of Dwell from 2006 to 2011.

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