Gregory Ain Mar Vista Tract
Architect Gregory Ain envisioned modern quality housing at affordable prices. He constructed a series of these houses in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles in the late 1940s after the war. There is now a neighborhood of the mid-century modern houses that are protected by the city of Los Angeles under the Historic Preservation designation.
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References:
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft6g50073x;chunk.id=d0e4565;doc.view=print
http://dogtownink.com/12/case-studie-2-gregory-ain/
http://dogtownink.com/12/case-studies-3-gregory-ain/
http://dogtownink.com/12/case-studie-1-gregory-ain/
http://fixupaddon.blogspot.com/
http://marvistatract.org/history.html
every style has it's own utopya... so and modernism, but I think it contains a lot of brilliant ideas about the rational way of life!
ReplyDeleteyes, definitely some ideas are contained within, and i like the mass production approach to reduce the cost.
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