
Mi Oaxacan Market; Image: A+D Architecture and Design Museum>Los Angeles, Abbe Wool. © A+D Architecture and Design Museum>Los Angeles
A+D Architecture and Design Museum>Los Angeles
Windshield Perspective

Shoreline House for Orange County Home Show by Whitney Smith and Wayne Williams, Smith and Williams, 1957; Photograph of a drawing by Al Spencer mounted on board. Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. © Regents of the University of California
Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara
Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams

St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons, 1960–62; Photograph by Jason Schmidt, 2012. Courtesy Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Hammer Museum
A. Quincy Jones: Building For Better Living

Contact sheet for Pacific Coast Highway, 1974, Ed Ruscha; Gelatin silver print. Promised gift of Ed and Danna Ruscha to the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. © Ed Ruscha
J. Paul Getty Museum
In Focus: Ed Ruscha

LAX Theme Building by Pereira & Luckman, Welton Becket & Associates, and Paul R. Williams, construction completed 1961; Pencil, watercolor, and gouache drawing on board, 1958. Alan E. Leib Collection. Image courtesy of and © Luckman Salas O’Brien
J. Paul Getty Museum
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990

As He Remembered It, installation view, Secession Vienna, 2011, Stephen Prina; © Photo credit: Wolfgang Thaler, Vienna. © The artist, courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It

Aerial view of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, c. 1965; William L. Pereira and Associates, architects. Photo © 2013 Museum Associates/LACMA, photographic archives
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA

Jef Raskin, designer of Bloxes, inventor of Macintosh computer, circa 1970; Photo: David Wing. © Estate of Jef Raskin.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
Everything Loose Will Land

Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O'Herlihy, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA], 2008; © 2009 Lawrence Anderson/Esto
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California

Frankenboyz (Frederick Fisher, Robert Mangurian, Eric Owen Moss, Coy Howard, Craig Hodgetts, Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry), 1980, Ave Pildas; Digital image. Image courtesy of the artist. © 1980 Ave Pildas