The LA City Council has granted preservation status to a tract of mid-century Eichler houses in Granada Hills according to the LA Times. You can see a gallery of photos here, and read more about the Eichler homes here.
UCSB’s ADC, known for its archival holdings of Southern California-based architects, recently celebrated a new acquisition: the archive of architect Rex Lotery (1930-2007). The archive contains objects from Lotery as well as from the firm Kahn, Kappe, Lotery & Boccato. Architectural historian and guest curator Nicholas Olsberg announced that selections from the archive will be…
The Magnum Photos library of more than 180,000 press prints, recently purchased by Michael S. Dell (of Dell Inc.), has moved from New York City to its new home at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin. The sale of the archive will help fund to scan the archive digitally and the move to the Ransom…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through the Thomas J. Watson Library, has announced a new exhibition history resource: a chronological list (PDF) of all special exhibitions held at the Museum from its founding in 1870 to the present. Please note that this is a working document that will be updated periodically. If you have any…
The Guardian is reporting that a UK National Trust land agent has traced the actual location for John Constable’s painting Stour Valley and Dedham Church. The agent, speaking here in this brief video, compares the group of trees on the right side of the painting to those in the valley.
For a breathtaking look at one filmmaker’s visual dialogue with the built environment, check out the short film The Third & and The Seventh, a “FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art [sic] across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.” Among…