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Magazines
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Atomic Ranch
And you thought ranch homes are boring. Check out this site and you will be amazed what you can do wiht your boring ranch or tract home. This is a great magazine which gives fantastic ideas how to turn your old ranch atomic.
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Dwell Magazine
Dwell delivers fresh, intelligent coverage of modern residential architecture
and design, communicating sophisticated concepts in a style that is engaging, .............
Architects
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Studioma
Studio Ma, a partnership between architects Christopher Alt, Dan Hoffman and Christiana Moss, AIA is an award winning, collaborative design studio based in Downtown Phoenix. The philosophy of the Studio is embodied by the concept of ‘Ma’, a Japanese term that acknowledges the dynamic relationship between objects and their surrounding environment. As with their notable institutional clients, including the Heard Museum in Phoenix and Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, their residential work finds design excellence within, and from, the requirements of both function and budget. At Studio Ma these demands are a source of inspiration, approached with creativity and rigor.
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Will Bruder
Will Bruder Architects, LTD is an internationally renowned architectural design firm based in Phoenix, Arizona. From our studio at the heart of the uban fabric, we take pride in creating dynamic architectural responses for the particular geographic, cultural, and functional requirements of each commission. Our firm specializes in the design of culturally significant buildings, including libraries and museums, and our office is organized to meet the complete range of architectural services for complex public buildings. Since its founding in 1974, Will Bruder has led the studio on a quest for architectural solutions that respond to our clients' programmatic needs with functional elegance, creating buildings of unique architectural character, sensuality, and beauty.
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Richard Neutra
Richard J. Neutra
Place Man in relationship to Nature; that's where he developed and where he feels most at home!
-- Richard Neutra
Richard Joseph Neutra is considered one of the world's most influential modern architects. His innovative and open designs express the freedom from conventions that many find in Southern California. He was born in Vienna, Austria in 1892 and died in Los Angeles in 1970. In Berlin Neutra worked with modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn, but from his student days he was drawn to the United States. The work of Frank Lloyd Wright was an early inspiration, and it wasn't long before Neutra and his wife Dione arrived in New York in 1923. While in Chicago, where he'd traveled to meet Wright, the Neutras saw a travel poster exclaiming California Calls You! It wasn't long before they were on their way West.
Neutra's first impressions of Southern California were candid. He found Angelenos of the 1920s mentally footloose with a cultural naiveté bordering everywhere on mixup. But he eventually grew to love his adopted city. With the support of friend and fellow Austrian-born Southern California architect, Rudolf Schindler, Neutra's first major commission, the Lovell House (1929), announced the arrival of an important new architectural vision. Neutra responded to the Southern California climate by creating designs where extensive use of glass allowed indoor and outdoor spaces to flow freely together. A journalist once described his work as . . . the most amiable relationship between science, technique, industrialization and good taste.
In 1932 Neutra designed a home for himself in the Silverlake hills. It also served as his office. Describing his work habits in an article available at the Neutra website( www.neutra.org ), Neutra's architect son Dion writes: Dad's best time for creative thinking was early in the morning, long before any activity had started in the office below. He often stayed in bed working with ideas and designs, even extending into appointments which had been made earlier. His one concession was to put on a tie over his night shirt when receiving visitors while still propped up in bed!
One of Neutra's most famous projects is the Kauffman House (1946) built on a remote site near Palm Springs. Another is the Moore House (1952) in Ojai, featuring a reflecting pool which also served as a fire and irrigation reservoir. As Neutra's son Dion describes it, the pool creates the illusion that the house in floating on a water garden. In addition to homes, Neutra designed many distinguished public buildings, including the Channel Heights housing project (1932) in San Pedro, the L.A. Hall of Records (1961-2), and schools, including Emerson Jr. High School (1938) in West L.A., Palos Verdes High School (1961) and the Fine Arts Building at Cal State Northridge (1961), which unfortunately was severely damaged in the 1994 earthquake and razed in 1997. Sadly, many Neutra designs have been lost, are poorly maintained, or modified beyond recognition. Racing against time, historians and architectural activists are working hard to preserve this great architect's contributions to an especially Southern California vision of urban life.
-- Contributed by Jon Wilkman, 1999
Local Artists and Galleries
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My wife's aunt Anne Coe
While some writers have considered Anne Coe to be a study in contrasts because of her disparate qualities of conservationist and capitalist, discipline and whimsy, dreamer and realist, it is such differences that make her significant as an artist today. One cannot create art with a myopic sensibility or function in society without those contrasts if one of the main reasons for the act of creation is to affect change and awareness.
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Robert J. Miley
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Robert is known in many parts of the world as an artist who uses empathy as a medium. By projecting forward and upward motion, his work inspires others to approach life with more open eyes and heart.
Robert is a founder of Release The Fear and serves on its board of directors.
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