From Nowhere To Somewhere: A Dialectical Lyric / [presented by] Eric Owen Moss.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Moss, Eric Owen, 1943- narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architectural design--United States.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (26 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Summary:

Eric Owen Moss, born in New York, is a Californian at heart. He trained as an architect at UCLA, Berkeley and Harvard and opened his own office in Los Angeles in 1976. His work has won many awards, and he is internationally recognised as one of the mainstays of the avant garde. Moss is no ordinary architect. Not for him contexturalism or conservation. From 1987 he has worked with an equally un-ordinary client, the developer Frederick Samitaur-Smith and his wife Laurie Samitaur-Smith, and together they have changed the face of a run-down industrial area of Los Angeles, Culver City, transforming it into a place that tempts self-respecting corporations away from up-market districts like Century City. Moss expresses enormous admiration for the vision and tenacity of the Smiths and shows, among other projects, a number of innovative buildings they have conceived together. He ponders the perennial question "What is truth?" and concludes that possibly it is the tension between opposing issues. Thus, in his architecture, he revels in contradiction.

Contents:

Conference Room At 8522 National Boulevard, Culver City, Los Angeles

Lawson-Westen House, Los Angeles: North East Facade

Lawson-Westen House, Los Angeles: Angled Window In Roof

Lawson-Westen House, Los Angeles: Interior Space & Stairs

Gary Group, Culver City: Corner Feature, Street Facade. Interior

Gary Group, Culver City: Interior

Gary Group, Culver City: Skylight Over Fountain

Gasometer D-1, Vienna: Sections Through Model

Gasometer D-1, Vienna: Final Scheme

Housing, Wagrammerstrasse, Vienna: Models Of Site & Both Buildings

Samitaur Offices, Culver City: Location Plan & The Building

The Box, 8520 Haydn Avenue, Culver City: The Building In Context

The Box, 8520 Haydn Avenue, Culver City: Detail

The Box, 8520 Haydn Avenue, Culver City: Interior & Stairs

Green Umbrella, Culver City

Samitaur Offices, Culver City. View From North West.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 29, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.