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when i moved to l.a i vowed to explore the weird and beautiful areas around l.a. and top of my list, was mt baldy

May 14, 2013
when i moved to l.a i vowed to explore the weird and beautiful areas around l.a. and top of my list, was mt baldy

May 14, 2013
i'm not sure where my love of abandoned buildings comes from

April 27, 2013
just got back from coachella

April 14, 2013
just got back from coachella

April 14, 2013
looking across the canyon

April 11, 2013
this building is beautiful and i love it and i wish the owners would invite me over to drink tea

April 2, 2013
ok, graffiti.

March 28, 2013
cohesion is for sissies

March 23, 2013
here's a quick one.

March 14, 2013
update about the bridge

March 13, 2013
here's architecture and a bird

March 11, 2013
i'm going to state a sad and self-evident truth. which is: there are a lot of crappy houses in l.a.

March 5, 2013
thanks to palm springs modernism week for organizing a whole bunch of great events last week

February 26, 2013
happy academy awards

February 25, 2013
happy academy awards

February 25, 2013
houses that look kind of like grounded ocean liners

February 18, 2013
gigantic clouds bearing down on relatively tiny l.a.

February 13, 2013
gigantic clouds bearing down on relatively tiny l.a.

February 13, 2013
the iconic and legendary capitol records building

February 10, 2013
the iconic and legendary capitol records building

February 10, 2013
space, along with light and nature, is the most precious urban commodity

February 7, 2013
john lautner's sheats-goldstein house

January 26, 2013
the world’s most beautiful airport as designed by my favorite 20th century architect

January 22, 2013
ok, i'm hoping that your delicate sensibilities are not frayed by today's random architectural update

January 17, 2013
another beautiful old theater downtown

January 16, 2013
hidden in plain sight cabin

January 7, 2013
today we have the beautiful and neglected and dilapidated 'los angeles' theater

January 3, 2013
the tropicana inn motel...

December 28, 2012
ok, here's clifton's cafeteria

December 24, 2012
my john lautner guest house

December 17, 2012
i was in san francisco for a few days...

December 13, 2012
while driving through home (or home adjacent) i stumbled upon this giant orthodox church cathedral

December 5, 2012
i love this odd angkor wat-y vine covered crazy house, sitting on a random side street in hollywood

November 29, 2012
ok, simply: i really like factories

November 28, 2012
amidst the at times unrelenting sea of beige you find odd little gems like this odd little gem

November 21, 2012
the burbank league of justice. with cartoony ceramic fish.

November 13, 2012
ok, you know, possibly, that i love old l.a motels

November 10, 2012
ok, now i'm really going to stretch any idea of what could be considered architecture

November 3, 2012
ok, now i'm really going to stretch any idea of what could be considered architecture

November 3, 2012
ok, i'm considering this super fast jet plane as architecture

October 30, 2012
yesterday was a good day for architecture here in good old los angeles. well, for me, selfishly, at least.

October 24, 2012
a stone tower in the middle of the sea of suburban beige

October 22, 2012
i'm trying to think of something insightful and/or smart and/or germane about this oddball building

October 12, 2012
a generic and generally unremarkable hollywood apartment house

October 9, 2012
pictures of a futuristic building at the top of a mountain in colorado

October 4, 2012
who thinks it's a good idea to demolish a frank lloyd wright masterpiece?

October 3, 2012
a perfect little mid century house

October 3, 2012
so, on saturday i had a near-perfect l.a 14 hours.

October 1, 2012
i was driving to topanga and i saw a very oddball house/church/something-or-other building structure place

September 23, 2012
these are vasquez rocks, named after an outlaw who used to hide out in the then unnamed rocks to evade the law.

September 20, 2012
it takes a lot of moxie to say 'i want an orange house. and not just an orange house, but a very bright orange house

September 13, 2012
when i first moved to l.a a few years ago i rented a house in hollywood right in the shadow of yamashiro

September 11, 2012
a beautiful, dark, odd, pawn shop in the middle of hollywood

September 4, 2012
today's update is sort of about the absence of architecture. which sounds pretentious.

August 31, 2012
today's house is banal. but: it's surrounded by a white picket fence.

August 28, 2012
i was walking down a random twisty winding side street in hollywood and i found this fantastic little moorish castle

August 22, 2012
i was walking down a random twisty winding side street in hollywood and i found this fantastic little moorish castle

August 22, 2012
ok, i'll be honest, i don't expect anyone to either like today's pictures or understand why i've put them up here

August 17, 2012
today's pictures are of a generic strip mall that most likely at one point was a mosque

August 13, 2012
exceptional house. unexceptional pictures. mea culpa. self-flagellation. etc

August 8, 2012
i'm surprised there aren't more examples of moorish inspired architecture in l.a

August 6, 2012
one thing i've learned: it's kind of hard to take good architectural pictures when you're looking up at a house on a hill

August 3, 2012
today's box of a building has a really satisfying sense of desolation, contrast, and space

July 28, 2012
ok, so to be clear: my including buildings in my oddball architecture blog is in no way an endorsement of what the building's current use or utility might be

July 23, 2012
i was walking down a side street in hollywood and i came upon this, uh, house. at least i think it's a house

July 20, 2012
ok, truth be told i'm a little embarrassed by today's architectural blog entry

July 17, 2012
i've decided to invent a new term. or, if it's already been invented, co-op a new term. here's the new term: mid century gothic.

July 12, 2012
l.a is still a relatively cheap and easy place in which to build a house

July 10, 2012
ok, this architectural update is comprised of a lot of pictures. because today i went to the best place in l.a: mt wilson observatory.

July 4, 2012
in the early 80’s my friends and i spent a lot of time in washington sq park: sitting by the fountain, watching girls, listening to the patter of the drug dealers

June 22, 2012
here are some pictures of what is arguably one of the most historic and iconic and remarkable houses in l.a, the schindler house

May 22, 2012
i'm including this house simply because it was big and impressive and intimidating

May 17, 2012
i was heading home from real food daily yesterday and out of the corner of my eye i saw this perfect little mid-century (or earlier) house.

May 14, 2012
all things considered, this is my favorite place in l.a.

May 12, 2012
it’s late, so i’m not going to write much. but here. are. randomly: 4 pictures of...

May 5, 2012
here's conversation i had with guy horton for archdaily

May 3, 2012
i harbor a hope that tim burton will buy this and turn it into something, maybe a new place for edward scissorhands to live

May 1, 2012
last week i was driving to our nbc tonight show rehearsal and i drove by what looked like the scene of a brutal alien attack

April 30, 2012
so, sunday i was driving home and i happened to pass by a castle for sale

April 25, 2012
i assume that this house is quasi-abandoned, which would explain why it looks like a mini version of norma desmond's house in 'sunset blvd'

April 23, 2012
so, every now and then i like to back away from the strangeness of l.a and take pictures of houses and things that are just simple and nice. like this house

April 23, 2012
in the sort of almost middle of hollywood is the magic castle

April 18, 2012
it would be odd to have a fully functioning public pool in the middle of a big city

April 11, 2012
the granddaddy (or grandmommy) of the craftsmen houses in l.a, the gamble house

April 10, 2012
one of the absolute best things about hollywood is the ubiquity of run-down old motels and hotels

April 8, 2012
nice architecture, nice and odd mosaics, and a 3 year waiting list to get married

April 4, 2012
a rare oscar neimeyer designed round spaceship building

April 1, 2012
'alexander: ruler of the world' apartment house

March 30, 2012
there's an old cliche that in l.a you can go skiing in the morning and surfing in the afternoon

March 28, 2012
today's house is a simple little jewel box of a mid century house

March 26, 2012
a monastery (or convent) hidden in the middle of grimy hollywood

March 23, 2012
i love this house because it makes no sense to me whatsoever

March 21, 2012
any photographer who tries to take a picture of nyc better than edward steichen's flatiron building picture is almost certainly delusional

March 16, 2012
i'm off to nyc for a week or so

March 12, 2012
today's pictures are of a wpa dam (that probably pre-dated the wpa, i just like pretending it was built by well intentioned and out of work lefties)

March 11, 2012
the other day i was driving on a side street in hollywood and i found my new favorite building in l.a

March 9, 2012
ok, i don't really expect anyone else to understand or like these pictures

March 8, 2012
hollywood is, as i might have mentioned a few hundred times, grimy

March 7, 2012
a few pictures of an iconic and hidden frank lloyd wright house

March 5, 2012

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