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Anderson House, 1922 (New house behind facade by Fin Kappe, 1995)
390 Vance Street
Anderson, whose first name seems to have disappeared, was supposed to have been a merchant who brought treasures from all over the world to this tiny house. Most of his travels seem, however, to have been in Mexico. This house, with its magnificent tile, art glass windows, and mosaic of Mexican dancers in front of a mission arcade is a real stunner.
Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winters
Pacific Palisades, South, No. 28.
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Lederer Residence, 1995
Fin Kappe (Kappe Studios)
390 Vance St
Before committing to the study of Architecture at Sci-Arc, Finn studied philosophy, astronomy, geology and fine art at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Santa Cruz. At the age of twenty-two, he returned to Los Angeles to build the Borghei-Cookston Residence designed by, Ray Kappe FAIA, (featured in Abitare, Architecture und Vohen and AMC). He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Sci-Arc in 1982 and a Masters of Architecture in 1986. Throughout this period of academic training, he alternately worked in offices and managed construction projects.
In 1986, Finn became a Partner of Kappe Architects Planners. Between 1986 and 1990, he was the lead designer on 9 residences and project architect on 5 others. As well, he participated in the master planning of the Harris Company's Malibu Housing, Clubhouse and Restaurant.
In 1991, he opened his own office - Kappe Studio, and continued with several more residences.
Finn has been the project manager for over 15 million dollars of construction. He continues to enjoy the process of making buildings real and his experiences in the field of construction have informed his designs in every way.
Mr. Kappe has taught at the USC School of Architecture, is a frequent critic at Sci-Arc and has lectured at UCLA. His work has been published in GA Houses, Abitare, Architecture und Vohen, AMC, LA Times Magazine and Architecture. Awards include the LABC Award for new SFD and finalist for remodeled SFD. Exhibits include LA On the Move, 100:100, and New Blood 101.
Volume 5: www.volume5.com/html/finn_kappe_architect.html
Kappe Studios: www.kappestudio.com/projects/pacific_palisades/index.php?...
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
The Sci-Arc/CalTech Hanwhua Solar House, CHIP (Compact Hyper-Insulated Prototype), 2011
Exposition park
700 Exposition Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
SciArc/CalTech for the US Department of Engergy Solar Decathalon, 2011
2011 Decathalon Winner
An "Exposition Park" needs to be about emerging technologies -- not just a museum of past discoveries. CHIP carries on this tradition, and should be a permanent fixture on the campus. Tucked away behind the California Science Museum, this temporary exhibit was a delightful find. Although it's small, It's very livable. Well done!
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Architecturally, the crown jewel of Exposition Park is the 1913 Natural History Museum (renamed the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History), designed by the prominent team of Frank Hudson and William Munsell. The Natural History Museum is mostly Beaux Arts, capped by a large dome of stained glass, supported by marble pillars. The building accents are Romanesque and Spanish Plateresque.
The Sunken Garden (renamed the Rose Garden in the 1920's) is the park's other National Register site. There are more than 20,000 rose bushes, with more than 200 varieties. The Rose Garden, with the Natural History Museum in the background has been captured in numerous films and TV shows, most recently featured as the home of the "Jeffferson Institute" on the TV crime drama Bones. The park's past is checkered. Originally it was a vanue for horse, camel, dog, and later automobile racing; it also reportedly housed the city's longest bar and "one of its most stylish brothels."
Also lining the Rose Garden are other architectural treasures. The Beaux Arts/Classical Exposition Building (renamed the California Science Center) runs parallel to the garden, and opposite the Natural History Museum is the Beaux Arts/Egyptian Revival Armory Building (Now the Science Center School and Amgen Center for Science Learning. Next to the Armory Building is the 1984 Frank O Gehry and Associatiates California Aerospace Museum. Elsewhere in the park is The Museum of African-American History, designed in 1984 by Jack Haywood and Vincent J Proby. The Memorial Coliseum was designed by John and Donald Parkinson.
Exposition park holds the distinction of the only venue in the world to host two olympic summer games (X and XXIII) and two Superbowls (I and VII). During the 1990's the park's popularity decreased and it was possible to spend time in the Rose Garden and almost not see another person. Today the park has regained its popularity.
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The park is public space owned by the state of California, whose major cultural facilities mentioned above are operated by both the state and Los Angeles County. The 160-acre (0.65 km2) site served as an agricultural fairground from 1872 to 1910 (hence its original name Agricultural Park). Farmers sold their harvests on the grounds, while horses, dogs, and even camels competed along a racetrack where the rose garden now blooms.
In 1880, John Edward, Ozro Childs, and former Governor Downey persuaded the State of California to purchase 160 acres (0.65 km2) in Los Angeles to foster agriculture in the Southland. Soon after USC was built in 1880, the city's most influential families moved into the neighborhood, but did not appreciate the racing and the gambling that came with it. As a result, the rose garden replaced the racetrack, and the park became what it is now with its grand museums.
Wikipedia - Exposition Park: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Park_(Los_Angeles)
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Exterior image of the house built by students from Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology to compete in Solar Decathlon 2013 in Irvine, Calif. at the Orange County Great Park. Credit: Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Anderson House, 1922 (New house behind facade by Fin Kappe, 1995)
390 Vance Street
Anderson, whose first name seems to have disappeared, was supposed to have been a merchant who brought treasures from all over the world to this tiny house. Most of his travels seem, however, to have been in Mexico. This house, with its magnificent tile, art glass windows, and mosaic of Mexican dancers in front of a mission arcade is a real stunner.
Architecture in Los Angeles: A Compleat Guide
David Gebhard and Robert Winters
Pacific Palisades, South, No. 28.
__________
Lederer Residence, 1995
Fin Kappe (Kappe Studios)
390 Vance St
Before committing to the study of Architecture at Sci-Arc, Finn studied philosophy, astronomy, geology and fine art at U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Santa Cruz. At the age of twenty-two, he returned to Los Angeles to build the Borghei-Cookston Residence designed by, Ray Kappe FAIA, (featured in Abitare, Architecture und Vohen and AMC). He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Sci-Arc in 1982 and a Masters of Architecture in 1986. Throughout this period of academic training, he alternately worked in offices and managed construction projects.
In 1986, Finn became a Partner of Kappe Architects Planners. Between 1986 and 1990, he was the lead designer on 9 residences and project architect on 5 others. As well, he participated in the master planning of the Harris Company's Malibu Housing, Clubhouse and Restaurant.
In 1991, he opened his own office - Kappe Studio, and continued with several more residences.
Finn has been the project manager for over 15 million dollars of construction. He continues to enjoy the process of making buildings real and his experiences in the field of construction have informed his designs in every way.
Mr. Kappe has taught at the USC School of Architecture, is a frequent critic at Sci-Arc and has lectured at UCLA. His work has been published in GA Houses, Abitare, Architecture und Vohen, AMC, LA Times Magazine and Architecture. Awards include the LABC Award for new SFD and finalist for remodeled SFD. Exhibits include LA On the Move, 100:100, and New Blood 101.
Volume 5: www.volume5.com/html/finn_kappe_architect.html
Kappe Studios: www.kappestudio.com/projects/pacific_palisades/index.php?...
Interior image of the house built by students from Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology to compete in Solar Decathlon 2013 in Irvine, Calif. at the Orange County Great Park. Credit: Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
amorphica.com/networked.html
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Interior image of the house built by students from Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology to compete in Solar Decathlon 2013 in Irvine, Calif. at the Orange County Great Park. Credit: Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Interior image of the house built by students from Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology to compete in Solar Decathlon 2013 in Irvine, Calif. at the Orange County Great Park. Credit: Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Aaron + Betty from or(g)A + SPAU
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Furniture designed using all recycled materials
G_Nee Lamp
180 Pieces / 180 Degrees of light coming from 180 Small spots, one spotlight at a time. You can hang it from any ceiling light bulb header, only the bulb must be an LED one. Working on it...
187 - - Amorphica Design Research Office
Furniture designed using all recycled materials
G_Nee Lamp
180 Pieces / 180 Degrees of light coming from 180 Small spots, one spotlight at a time. You can hang it from any ceiling light bulb header, only the bulb must be an LED one. Working on it...
187 - - Amorphica Design Research Office
amorphica.com/amorphica-html/00-187.htm
Georgina Muñoz, Roberto Gutiérrez, Berenice Jiménez, Julia Cerrud, Aarón Gutiérrez Cortes
Interior image of the house built by students from Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology to compete in Solar Decathlon 2013 in Irvine, Calif. at the Orange County Great Park. Credit: Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Furniture designed using all recycled materials
G_Nee Lamp
180 Pieces / 180 Degrees of light coming from 180 Small spots, one spotlight at a time. You can hang it from any ceiling light bulb header, only the bulb must be an LED one. Working on it...
187 - - Amorphica Design Research Office
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Emergent + Sustainable Communities
[ Comunidades Emergentes + Sostenibles ]
Coming Soon
Photography: Berenice Jiménez
Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology's Solar Decathlon 2013 House Rendering. (Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon). Read more about the team here: www.solardecathlon.gov/team_sci_arc_caltech.html
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon
Katherine Kolb @ The Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University - Fall 2011
Dissertation seminar on Balzac - Kolb was the niece of Honoré de Balzac's wife.
Willow Road Mixed-Use
amorphica.com/amorphica-html/00-098.htm
Credits
Design: Evgenya Golik, Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes, Julia Cerrud, Octavio Quijada
Excecutive/Administrative/Development: Julia Cerrud, Octavio Quijada, Cairo Bermudez
Collaboration: David Lopez-Rosales
The SCI-Arc Gallery is pleased to present, Dark Side of the Moon, a new site-specific installation by Los Angeles-based firm, Michael Maltzan Architecture. This installation introduces a new threshold in the gallery, creating a space between two worlds that provokes interaction and a simultaneous experience for, and between, those who visit.
As viewers enter the gallery, a surface descends above them, arcing across the entirety of the 1400+ square foot space and gradually bending toward the gallery floor. Expanding the role that this “fifth façade” has played in the Michael Maltzan Architecture’s recent projects, the exhibition transforms the soffit of the gallery into unique space by positioning the structure above the gallery walls rather than within them.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
ThyssenKrupp Architecture Award
Amorphica Design Research Office
amorphica.com/amorphica-html/00-170.htm
Credits
Design: Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes, Julia Cerrud, Georgina Muñoz, Roberto Gutiérrez, Georgina Laborin
Excecutive/Administrative/Development: Julia Cerrud, Georgina Muñoz, Roberto Gutiérrez, Georgina Laborin, Berenice Jimenez
Nader Ardalan + Steve Caton
New Arab Urbanism: The Challenge to Sustainability and Culture in the Gulf - Seminar
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2011
Amorphica Design Research Office
Furniture designed using all recycled materials
G_Nee Lamp
180 Pieces / 180 Degrees of light coming from 180 Small spots, one spotlight at a time. You can hang it from any ceiling light bulb header, only the bulb must be an LED one. Working on it...
187 - - Amorphica Design Research Office
amorphica.com/amorphica-html/00-187.htm
Georgina Muñoz, Roberto Gutiérrez, Berenice Jiménez, Julia Cerrud, Aarón Gutiérrez Cortes
Furniture designed using all recycled materials
G_Nee Lamp
180 Pieces / 180 Degrees of light coming from 180 Small spots, one spotlight at a time. You can hang it from any ceiling light bulb header, only the bulb must be an LED one. Working on it...
187 - - Amorphica Design Research Office
amorphica.com/amorphica-html/00-187.htm
Georgina Muñoz, Roberto Gutiérrez, Berenice Jiménez, Julia Cerrud, Aarón Gutiérrez Cortes
Furniture designed using all recycled materials
G_Nee Lamp
180 Pieces / 180 Degrees of light coming from 180 Small spots, one spotlight at a time. You can hang it from any ceiling light bulb header, only the bulb must be an LED one. Working on it...
187 - - Amorphica Design Research Office
amorphica.com/amorphica-html/00-187.htm
Georgina Muñoz, Roberto Gutiérrez, Berenice Jiménez, Julia Cerrud, Aarón Gutiérrez Cortes