A Hundred Years of Architecture in Los Angeles

See Los Angeles through the eyes of our city’s most talented architects and interior designers and discover the influences that have...

Wednesday, May 20 at 7pm

A Hundred Years of Architecture in Los Angeles

Barbara Bestor, Leo Marmol, and Pamela Shamshiri

in conversation with Frances Anderton

See Los Angeles through the eyes of our city’s most talented architects and interior designers and discover the influences that have shaped this vast cityscape.

ALOUD and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles are proud to celebrate the Centennial anniversary of our Central Library with an all-star panel discussion featuring Barbara Bestor, Leo Marmol, and Pamela Shamshiri, moderated by Frances Anderton.

Over the last hundred years, Los Angeles has transformed from a sleepy coastal town to a landscape of architectural experimentation. Since the 1920s, LA has built itself up as the home to contrasting movements: From Spanish Colonial Revival to filigree and wrought iron, Modernism like Schindler and Neutra to bold Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern’s elegance in the Stahl and Eames houses to big, bold statement architecture like Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and Moneo’s Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

It is through — not despite — these contrasting influences that Los Angeles builds its civic character. Join us as we journey through the sum of LA’s architectural legacy and its parts over the last 100 years of design innovation.