Los Angeles has a rich, diverse history of architectural works, having been known throughout professional architectural circles as a test bed for architecture.

1. Architecture Of Los Angeles

2. City Of Los Angeles
 Second-largest city in the United
States after New York City
 The most populous city in the U.S.
 3state of California, and the county
seat of Los Angeles County.
 Situated in Southern California, Los
Angeles is known its Mediterranean
climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling
metropolis.
 A major center of the American
entertainment industry.
 Focal point of the larger Los Angeles
metropolitan area and the Greater
Los Angeles Area region

3. Population
 2010 – 13 million and over 18
million people
 One of the most populous
metropolitan areas in the world as
well as the second-largest in the
United States.

4. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural
Monuments
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments (LAHCMs) in Downtown Los Angeles,
California are designated by the City's Cultural Heritage Commission.
 There are more than 120 LAHCMs in the downtown area.
 These includes:
 Old Plaza Historic District
 Little Tokyo
 Chinatown
 Broadway Theater District,
 Spring Street Financial District
 Fashion District

5. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Palace Theatre Los Angeles City Hall La Placita Church

6. Modern Architectural Styles
• Los Angeles has a rich, diverse history of architectural works, having been known
throughout professional architectural circles as a test bed for architecture.
• Architects such as Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Frank Lloyd Wright all
have important works in the city.
• Mission revival,
• Spanish colonial revival,
• Craftsman
• Norman French provincial
• French chateau
• English Tudor
• Beaux arts
• Art deco
• Streamline modern

7. Colonial Revival
• The Colonial Revival homes in La
Fayette Square range in their aesthetic
influences and level of detail.
• Subsets Colonial Revival Style
 American Colonial
 Georgian and Adam
• American Colonial Revival style –
Have very simple and clean exteriors
• Adam and Georgian Revival – Have
more ornate embellishments such as
quoins and dentils.

8. Craftsman
• Style dates from the early 1900s
• Is a response to the English Arts
and Crafts Movement.
• Craftsman architecture
 Stressed the importance of
simplicity
 Adapts form to function
 Relates the building to both its
designer through the
incorporation of craftsmanship,
and to the surrounding landscape

9. French Eclectic
• Popular throughout the United
States
• The style is intended to mimic the
design of small manor houses and
farmhouses of Northwest France.
• It is likely that part of the
popularity of this design is
attributable to the many American
servicemen stationed in France
during World War I.

10. International Style
• The most common characteristics of
International Style buildings are said
to be;
• Rectilinear forms
• Light, taut plane
• Open interior spaces
• A visually weightless quality
engendered by the use of cantilever
construction.
Glass and steel, in combination with
usually less visible reinforced concrete,
are the characteristic materials of the
construction

11. English Tudor Revival
Tudor style homes have many of
these features;
• Decorative half-timbering
• Steeply pitched roof
• Prominent cross gables
• Tall, narrow windows
• Small window panes
• Massive chimneys, often
topped with
decorative chimney pots

12. Modern & Famous Buildings of Los Angeles
US Bank Tower Walt Disney Concert Hall
Height: 310 m Height: 88m
Floors: 73 Floor: 13
Type: skyscraper Type: Hall

13. Important Buildings of Los Angeles
Gas Company Tower 777 Tower LA County Museum of Arts

14. Tallest buildings in Los Angeles
• Ranks skyscrapers in
the U.S. city of Los
Angeles, California by height.
• 73-story U.S. Bank Tower, which
rises 1,018 feet (310 m)
in Downtown
• Second-tallest skyscraper –
The Aon Center, which rises 858
feet (262 m).
• Seven of the ten tallest buildings
in California are located in Los
Angeles. Aon Center
Height: 856m
Floor: 63
City National Tower
Height: 699m
Floor: 56