Title & Author:

From Nowhere To Somewhere : A Dialectical Lyric / [presented by] Eric Owen Moss.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Conference Room At 8522 National Boulevard, Culver City, Los Angeles -- Lawson-Westen House, Los Angeles: North East Facade -- Lawson-Westen House, Los Angeles: Angled Window In Roof -- Lawson-Westen House, Los Angeles: Interior Space & Stairs -- Gary Group, Culver City: Corner Feature, Street Facade. Interior -- Gary Group, Culver City: Interior -- Gary Group, Culver City: Skylight Over Fountain -- Gasometer D-1, Vienna: Sections Through Model -- Gasometer D-1, Vienna: Final Scheme -- Housing, Wagrammerstrasse, Vienna: Models Of Site & Both Buildings -- Samitaur Offices, Culver City: Location Plan & The Building -- The Box, 8520 Haydn Avenue, Culver City: The Building In Context -- The Box, 8520 Haydn Avenue, Culver City: Detail -- The Box, 8520 Haydn Avenue, Culver City: Interior & Stairs -- Green Umbrella, Culver City -- Samitaur Offices, Culver City. View From North West.

Summary:

Eric Owen Moss, born in New York, is a Californian at heart. He trained as an architect at UCLA, Berkeley and Harvard and opened his own office in Los Angeles in 1976. His work has won many awards, and he is internationally recognised as one of the mainstays of the avant garde. Moss is no ordinary architect. Not for him contexturalism or conservation. From 1987 he has worked with an equally un-ordinary client, the developer Frederick Samitaur-Smith and his wife Laurie Samitaur-Smith, and together they have changed the face of a run-down industrial area of Los Angeles, Culver City, transforming it into a place that tempts self-respecting corporations away from up-market districts like Century City. Moss expresses enormous admiration for the vision and tenacity of the Smiths and shows, among other projects, a number of innovative buildings they have conceived together. He ponders the perennial question "What is truth?" and concludes that possibly it is the tension between opposing issues. Thus, in his architecture, he revels in contradiction.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design United States.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Design architectural États-Unis.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
United States.

Added entries:

Moss, Eric Owen, 1943- narrator.