Westside Architecture Tour on Bike
01.31.09
... A ride along the beach to start the case study. This ride is being hosted by a group of Architecture-and-Bicycle Enthusiasts and IS NOT TO BE MISSED! Its a rare chance to see some of these places with knowledgeable Ridazz!
Hey Bikers:
Architecture Ride on Saturday, January 31st.
East Siders meet at Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, 3922 W Sunset Blvd, 8:30am , roll out at 9:00am.
West Siders meet at Clover Park in Santa Monica, 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, 9:45am, roll out at 10:15am.
We need to arrive at the Mar Vista Tract at 10:30am (corner of Palms Blvd and Beethoven).
The ride will be on the Westside, we start off with Gregory Ain's Cast Study Houses in the Mar Vista Tract and we want to end the ride with a tour of the Eames Case Study house in the Palisades.
Here's a map of the houses:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=116295945245993966246.00045ac0d25bc6641b098
From Wikipedia,
The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by John Entenza's (later David Travers') Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day, including Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig and Eero Saarinen, to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers. The Eames' CSH #8 was assembled by hand labor in about three days.
The program ran from 1945 until 1966. The first six houses were built by 1948 and attracted more than 350,000 visitors. While not all 36 designs were built, most of those that were constructed were built in Los Angeles; a few are in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one was built in Phoenix, Arizona. A number of them appear in iconic black and white photographs by architectural photographer Julius Shulman.
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