Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003
Victory at Bunker Hill
By Martin Filler
Symphony: Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall
with an introduction by Frank Gehry and a preface by Deborah Borda; essays by Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt, Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Webb, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and photographs by Grant Mudford
Abrams / Los Angeles Philharmonic, 176 pp., $60.00 (To be published in November.)
Frank O. Gehry: Work in Progress
an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 7, 2003–January 26, 2004
Ever since Cecil B. DeMille filmed The Squaw Man in a barn at 1521 Vine Street in Hollywood ninety years ago, thereby shifting the nascent movie business westward from New York, Los Angeles has been a center of at least one other great American art form. For a century now, L.A. also has been a seedbed of architectural innovation, as can be seen from the original and influential houses designed by Greene & Greene, Irving Gill, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames. Much as those architects helped shape what is understood today as the California way of life, not one of them was native to L.A., let alone the state.
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