Modern Architecture in Los Angeles In Los Angeles, the captivating buildings of different sizes and structures are an important element to the city’s identity. Common bystanders might only see buildings as structures that are useful as work, commercial, and living places. Even though architecture is an essential component to provide the best use of space, there is more than meets the eye. The architecture of buildings exposes to us a time, a style, and a story that speak an abundant amount of the downtown Los Angeles community. Los Angeles played a key role in modernism’s development and influences. Modernism in downtown Los Angeles moved the communities into a new nontraditional style. As we explore the buildings of Los Angeles we see how
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Mapping the buildings that express this architectural style of modernism is important because it identifies Los Angeles move towards modern styles that represent the community’s development.
The formal definition in the dictionary of Modernism is a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms. As the definition states, modern architecture in downtown Los Angeles strayed away from traditional and classical style. As Candance Jones’ article Rebels with a Cause: Formation, Contestation, and Expansion of the Novo Category “Modern Architecture” states, “These architects enacted different artifacts codes for a building based on institutional logics associated with their specific mix of clients. ‘Modern architects’ fought over what logic and artifact could should guide ‘modern architecture’”. In other words, modern architecture is a rebellious art form that strives to depict a new vision that is personal to the architect or the people of the buildings community. Modern architecture is about incorporating new ideas with mixtures of …show more content…
If you have seen the Walt Disney Concert Hall, it is safe to say that the iconic building was worth the wait when it was finally opened in 2003 (Sokol). The project to create a Disney Hall was handed to Frank Gehry, who put his style into this project. The Architectural Digest calls Frank Gehry the most important architect of our age because of his awe-inspiring structures all over the world, Architectural Digest states that “Throughout his long career, Gehry has designed striking, awe-inspiring structures that have become must-visit destinations”. One of his must visit destinations is the Walt Disney Hall, it is a complex postmodern styled building with a stainless-steel exterior. Gehry’s proposal to build the concert hall was largely oriented toward the public. As expressed in the article Ad Classics: Walt Disney Concert Hall/ Frank Gehry, the postmodern characteristics are the metal panels that are allowed for more adventurous curves and glass fissures in the façade that bring light into the lobby and pre-concert room, that leads as a grand entryway through the otherwise opaque façade (Jones). The sleek curves of the exterior and the intricate structural patterns are incomparable to any other concert halls. This architectural design is depicted to be refusing the principles of traditional architecture. The article, AD Classics: Walt Disney Concert Hall/Frank Gehry
Mapping the buildings that express this architectural style of modernism is important because it identifies Los Angeles move towards modern styles that represent the community’s development.
The formal definition in the dictionary of Modernism is a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms. As the definition states, modern architecture in downtown Los Angeles strayed away from traditional and classical style. As Candance Jones’ article Rebels with a Cause: Formation, Contestation, and Expansion of the Novo Category “Modern Architecture” states, “These architects enacted different artifacts codes for a building based on institutional logics associated with their specific mix of clients. ‘Modern architects’ fought over what logic and artifact could should guide ‘modern architecture’”. In other words, modern architecture is a rebellious art form that strives to depict a new vision that is personal to the architect or the people of the buildings community. Modern architecture is about incorporating new ideas with mixtures of …show more content…
If you have seen the Walt Disney Concert Hall, it is safe to say that the iconic building was worth the wait when it was finally opened in 2003 (Sokol). The project to create a Disney Hall was handed to Frank Gehry, who put his style into this project. The Architectural Digest calls Frank Gehry the most important architect of our age because of his awe-inspiring structures all over the world, Architectural Digest states that “Throughout his long career, Gehry has designed striking, awe-inspiring structures that have become must-visit destinations”. One of his must visit destinations is the Walt Disney Hall, it is a complex postmodern styled building with a stainless-steel exterior. Gehry’s proposal to build the concert hall was largely oriented toward the public. As expressed in the article Ad Classics: Walt Disney Concert Hall/ Frank Gehry, the postmodern characteristics are the metal panels that are allowed for more adventurous curves and glass fissures in the façade that bring light into the lobby and pre-concert room, that leads as a grand entryway through the otherwise opaque façade (Jones). The sleek curves of the exterior and the intricate structural patterns are incomparable to any other concert halls. This architectural design is depicted to be refusing the principles of traditional architecture. The article, AD Classics: Walt Disney Concert Hall/Frank Gehry