The Architecture of Los Angeles
1800s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s
1800s
San Gabriel Mission, Father Antonio Cruzado, (1794-1805)
Avila Adobe, Francisco Avila (1818)
Phineas Banning House, Phineas Banning (1863)
Pico House, Ezra F. Kysor (1869)
Point Fermin Lighthouse, Paul J. Pelz (1874)
Saint Vibiana’s, Ezra F. Kysor (1876)
Heim House, 1320 Carroll Avenue, architect unknown (1887)
Libby House, 724 East Edgeware Road, architect unknown (1887)
Hale House, Heritage Square Museum, George W. Morgan (1887)
Sessions House, 1330 Carroll Avenue, Joseph Cather Newsom (1889)
Boyle Hotel, W.R. Norton (1889)
Stimson House, Carroll H. Brown (1891)
Bradbury Building, Sumner P. Hunt and George H. Wyman (1893)
1900s
Powers House, Arthur L. Haley (1904)
Farmers and Merchants Bank, Morgan & Walls (1905)
Gamble House, Greene and Greene (1908)
Magic Castle, Lyman Farwell and Oliver Dennis (1909)
1910s
El Alisal, Charles Lummis (1910)
Beverly Hills Hotel, Elmer Grey (1912)
Natural History Museum, Frank Hudson and William A.D. Munsell (1913)
Yamashiro, Franklin Small (1914)
Harold-Examiner Building, Julia Morgan (1914)
Horatio West Court, Irving Gill (1919)
1920s
Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright (1921)
Spadena House, Harry Oliver (1921)
Schindler House, Rudolf Schindler (1922)
Biltmore Hotel, Schultze and Weaver (1923)
Samuel Freeman House, Frank Lloyd Wright (1923)
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, John and Donald Parkinson (1923)
Aztec Hotel, Robert Stacy-Judd (1924)
Ennis House, Frank Lloyd Wright (1925)
Angelus Temple, Brook Hawkins (1925)
Nishi Hongwanji Buddist Temple (1925)
Los Angeles Central Library, Bertram Grosvenor Goohue (1926)
Sowden House, Lloyd Wright (1926)
The Andalusia, Arthur and Nina Zwebell (1926)
Hollywood Roosevelt, Fisher, Lake & Traver (1926)
United Artists Building (aka Ace Hotel), C. Howard Crane, Walker & Eisen (1927)
Pasadena City Hall, John Bakewell and Arthur Brown, Jr. (1927)
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (aka TCL Chinese Theater), Raymond Kennedy at Meyer & Holler (1927)
Chateau Mormont, Arnold A. Weitzman (1927)
Los Angeles City Hall, John Parkinson and John C. Austin (1928)
Oviatt Building, Walker & Eisen (1928)
Hollywood Bowl, Elliott, Bowen and Walz (1929)
Bullocks Wilshire, John and Donald B. Parkinson (1929)
Lovell House, Richard Neutra (1929)
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, S. Tilden Norton, A.M. Adelman, and David C. Allison (1929)
Chapman Plaza, Morgan, Walls, and Clements (1929)
Adamson House, Stiles O. Clements (1929)
Chateau Marmont, William Douglas Lee (1929)
1930s
Pantages Theater, B. Marcus Priteca (1930)
Eastern Columbia Building, Claud Beelman (1930)
Sunset Tower, Leland A. Bryant (1931)
Los Angeles Theater, S. Charles Lee (1931)
Walter Theater and Pellissier Building, Morgan, Walls, and Clements (1931)
Santa Anita Park, Gordon B. Kaufman (1934)
Los Angeles Times Building (1935)
Griffith Observatory, John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley (1935)
Crossroads of the World, Robert V. Derrah (1936)
Academy Theater, S. Charles Lee (1939)
Coca-Cola Building, Robert V. Derrah (1939)
Union Station, John and Donald Parkinson (1939)
1940s
May Company Department Store, Albert C. Martin (1939-1940)
Beverly Hills Hotel Expansion, Paul R. Williams (1949)
Eames House, Charles and Ray Eames (1949)
Burbank Bob’s Big Boy, Wayne McAllister (1949)
1950s
Wayfarer’s Chapel, Lloyd Wright (1951)
CBS Television City, Gin Wong of Pereira & Luckman (1952)
Randy’s Donuts, Henry Goodwin (1953)
Downey McDonald’s, Stanley Clark Meston (1953)
Watts Towers, Simon Rodia (1921-1954)
Parker Center (demolished?), Welton Becket (1955)
The Hauser, Wilson Construction Co. (1955)
Los Angeles California Temple, Edward O. Anderson (1956)
Capitol Records, Welton Becket (1956)
Covina Bowl, Powers, Daly, & DeRosa (1956)
Norms La Cienega, Armet & Davis and Helen Fong (interior) (1957)
The Silvertop House, John Lautner (1957)
Pann’s, Armet & Davis and Helen Fong (interior) (1958)
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Welton Becket (1958)
Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig (1959)
1960s
Stahl House, John and Donald Parkinson (1960)
Sinai Temple, Sidney Eisenshtat (1960)
Chemosphere, John Lautner (1960)
LAX Theme Building, Paul Williams, William Pereira, and Welton Becket (1961)
Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Millard Sheets (1961)
Hollywood Adventist Church, Robert Burman (1962)
Dodger Stadium, Emil Praeger of Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury (1962)
Sheats Goldstein Residence, John Lautner (1963)
Cinerama Dome, Welton Becket (1963)
Beckman Auditorium at Caltech, Edward Durell Stone (1963)
Frances and Armand Hammer Building (formerly The Lytton Gallery), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Pereira (1965, demolished 2020)
Hanna-Barbera Building (aka LA Fitness), Arthur Froelich (1963)
Neutra VDL Research House, Richard and Dion Neutra (1964)
Ahamanson Building, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Pereira (1965, demolished 2020)
The Bing Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Pereira (1965, demolished 2020)
Department of Water and Power Building, A.C. Martin (1965)
Union 76 Station, Gin Wong of William L. Pereira & Associates (1965)
Eichler Homes (Thousand Oaks, Granada Hills, Orange), Jones & Emmons (?), 1949-1966
The Forum, Charles Luckman Associates (1967)
Kappe House, Ray Kappe (1967)
Bumbershoot Café (formerly Brolly Hut), Victor Miller (1968)
Saint Basil Catholic Church, A.C. Martin (1969)
1970s
Westin Bonaventure, John C. Portman, Jr. (1976)
Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus, Craig Ellwood Associates (1976)
Compton City Hall and Civic Center, Harold L. Williams (1977)
1980s
Art of the Americas Building (formerly Robert O. Anderson Building), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer (1986)
Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bruce Goff (1988)
US Bank Tower, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (1989)
1990s
Walt Disney Studios, Michael Graves (1990)
Binoculars Building, Frank Gehry (1991)
Getty Center, Richard Meier (1997)
2000s
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, José Rafael Moneo (2002)
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry (2003)
Hollywood Bowl Renovation, Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates (2003)
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters, Morphosis (2004)
Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Renzo Piano (2008)
BP Grand Entrance, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Renzo Piano (2008)
2010s
Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Renzo Piano (2010)
Pacific Design Center, Cesar Pelli (2013)
Emerson College, Morphosis (2014)
Pterodactyl, Eric Owen Moss (2014)
Star Apartments, Michael Maltzan (2014)
The Broad, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (2015)
The Peterson Automotive Museum Renovation (2015)
Wilshire Grand, A.C. Martin (2014-2017)
2020s
May Company Department Store Renovations (aka Saban Building), The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Renzo Piano (2020)
Zumthor Redesign, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Peter Zumthor and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (expected 2024)