Los Angeles Municipal Airport: Two sketch elevations with other unidentified sketches

People:

Lloyd Wright (draughtsman)
Lloyd Wright (architect)

Title:

Los Angeles Municipal Airport: Two sketch elevations with other unidentified sketches

Date:

1929

Description:

- This sheet contains a number of drawings, two of which are sketch elevations for airport buildings. While the upper complex has the scale and massing of many of Wright's Los Angeles Municipal Airport drawings, the lower drawing, with its tall observation tower standing out against a low station building, seems closer to his designs for Boeing Airport, Burbank, California (see DR1987:0391), or the Lehigh Airports Competition (see DR1987:0359).

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

conceptual drawings

Technique and media:

Graphite

Dimensions:

sheet: 36.1 x 68.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1987:0385

Drawing Type:

line drawings
freehand drawings

Method of Projection:

perspective drawings
sketch elevations (drawings)
sketch plans (drawings)

Point of View:

partial views
exterior views

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, throughout: with calculations and measurements numbered - by the architect's son ? graphite, l.r.: "#61" [job number] numbered - by the dealer, in graphite, verso, l.l.: "LW87.036"

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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