Los Angeles Municipal Airport: Thumbnail site plans, conceptual elevations and perspectives with some elevations, possibly for the Hollywood Bowl shell

People:

Lloyd Wright (draughtsman)
Lloyd Wright (architect)

Title:

Los Angeles Municipal Airport: Thumbnail site plans, conceptual elevations and perspectives with some elevations, possibly for the Hollywood Bowl shell

Date:

1929

Description:

- These sketches are mostly drawings for runway designs within the square site plan of the Los Angeles Municipal Airport project, with an elevation showing the massing of forms for the airport buildings. There are also at least three sketches for a segmentally-arched structure, possibly elevations for Lloyd Wright's second project for a shell for the Hollywood Bowl. This second project was commissioned in 1928; it was to be an elliptical shell, quarter-circular in elevation.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

conceptual drawings

Technique and media:

Graphite with black pencil

Dimensions:

sheet: 36.4 x 56.4 cm

Reference number:

DR1987:0400

Drawing Type:

line drawings
freehand drawings
thumbnail sketches

Method of Projection:

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

Point of View:

exterior views

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite and black pencil, throughout: with calculations numbered - by the architect's son ? graphite, l.r.: "#61" [job number] numbered - by the dealer, in graphite, verso, l.l.: "LW87.049"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

shell structure

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

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