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SOM's City Design practice has made influential contributions to urban design approaches such as transit-oriented development, overbuild strategies and sustainable urbanism. In 1942, SOM was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a highly confidential project: the planning of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. By 1945, the town was home to 75,000 people.
The Neutra Office Building is a 4,800-square-foot (450 m 2) office building in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles, California. The building was owned and designed by Modernist architect Richard Neutra in 1950. It served as the studio and office for Neutra's architecture practice from 1950 until Neutra's death in 1970.
Lynch's most famous work, The Image of the City (1960), is the result of a five-year study on how observers take in information of the city. Using three American cities as examples (Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles), Lynch reported that users understood their surroundings in consistent and predictable ways, forming mental maps with five ...
Doug Suisman (born 14 March 1955) is an American urban designer and architect. [1] Suisman founded the Los Angeles-based firm, Suisman Urban Design, in 1990 [2] and has since worked on projects in a variety of cities including Los Angeles, Ramallah, and Vancouver, among others.
Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA (January 22, 1940 – February 9, 2015) was an American architect based in Venice, Los Angeles, California, founder and chairman of The Jerde Partnership, a design architecture and urban planning firm specializing in the design of shopping malls that has created a number of commercial developments around the globe.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977, one of only four office buildings in Los Angeles to be so honored. [5] It was also designated a landmark by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission [6] and is the city's oldest landmarked building. [7]
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1924 Clarence Stein – Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York; Chatham Village, Pittsburgh; Baldwin Hills Village, Los Angeles; 1925 Ernst May – city plan and housing units in Frankfurt, Germany, including Siedlung Römerstadt; 1927–1929 Patrick Geddes – Tel Aviv; 1927 Bruno Taut – Hufeisensiedlung (Horseshoe Projects), Berlin