a monastery (or convent) hidden in the middle of grimy hollywood
more grimy hollywood. or: grimy hollywood adjacent. i know, i go on and on about the ‘hidden in plain sight’ aspect of dirty l.a. to…
more grimy hollywood. or: grimy hollywood adjacent. i know, i go on and on about the ‘hidden in plain sight’ aspect of dirty l.a. to…
ok, a few apologies. or a couple of apologies. i was in nyc, so i couldn’t send in new oddball pictures of l.a architecture. or…
this is interesting…in 2012 fox news and the republicans are blaming obama for high gas prices. but in 2008 fox news and the republicans said…
ok, i'm cheating. i have my architecture blog, which is supposed to be exclusively about l.a architecture. but i just took a walk around my…
i’m off to nyc for a week or so. so (and yes, i use ‘so’ too often. i mean, does it even mean anything? if…
for some reason i’ve always loved utilitarian public architecture from the 20’s and 30’s. i (probably mistakenly) call it w.p.a architecture, even if a lot…
a few things: 1-have a nice weekend. 2-the other day i was driving on a side street in hollywood and i found my new favorite…
ok, i don’t really expect anyone else to understand or like these pictures. not that they resist understanding by being terribly sophisticated or subtle or…
hollywood is, as i might have mentioned a few hundred times, grimy. it's a global tourist destination, and it's been immortalized (well, by human standards)…
a few years ago my friend's lee and cindy opened a really great gallery in connecticut, the samuel-owen gallery. and on march 15th i'll be…