No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.—Reyner Banham.
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17 Mar 2025
"el legado de Esther McCoy se mantiene vivo"
the legacy of Esther McCoy lives on
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10 Mar 2025
vestibulo, Casa Barragan (Luis Barragan, 1947-48)
Luis Barragan 9 March 1902 - 2 November 1988
image courtesy Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán A. C.
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10 Mar 2025
Richard Neutra (Esther McCoy, 1960. published in Italian by il Saggiatore, designed by Anita Klinz)
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6 Mar 2025
from Box 47, McCoy papers, AAA: Free and Equal Blues," (1 sound disc) 1946
Josh White, vocal & guitar. Free and Equal Blues (Robinson-Harburg, unreleased) recorded from radio transcription, acetate on aluminum
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31 Jan 2025
model, Archie Lamm house, Los Angeles. unbuilt (Gregory Ain, 1929)
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31 Jan 2025
quoting McCoy, 1965:
“During the war many architects and engineers in the aircraft plant... were preparing plans for a future house that was to be brilliantly engineered, furnished with gadgets and clothed in pastoral garb – a marriage between Walden Pond and Douglas Aircraft.”
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27 Jan 2025
Laughlin Theater, Long Beach (Irving Gill, 1914-15; destroyed, 1933)
photo: Winstead Photo, 1921
image courtesy Los Angeles Public Library
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25 Jan 2025
Irving Gill (Esther McCoy, Los Angeles County Museum in collaboration with The Art Center in La Jolla, 1958. catalogue designed by Louis Danziger)
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25 Jan 2025
jewelry display at Paul Flato shop, 8637 Sunset Boulevard (interior designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbing)
photo: Maynard L. Parker, 1938
image courtesy Huntington Library
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24 Jan 2025
Kirk house, Seattle (Paul Hayden Kirk, 1944)
photo: Dearborn-Massar
image courtesy University of Washington Libraries
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Esther McCoy retweeted
21 Jan 2025
[1976] Interior view of the Bradbury Building. (William Reagh Collection) buff.ly/4g1wYKo
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22 Jan 2025
The Bachelor's Haberdashery, Los Angeles (J.R. Davidson, 1929)
photo: Will Connell
image courtesy Esther McCoy papers, AAA
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22 Jan 2025
Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design
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19 Dec 2024
David and Gladys Wright House, Phoenix, AZ (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950)
photo: William Clift, 2015
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12 Dec 2024
Tower Motors/Lincoln Mercury Showroom, Glendale (John Lautner, 1947-48)
photo: Dr. Block Color Productions
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5 Dec 2024
Herman Miller showroom, Los Angeles
(Charles and Ray Eames, 1949)
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5 Dec 2024
the Cellarette, "a concept for a pullout bar on wheels" (J.R. Davidson, undated/ c. 1933)
image courtesy AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara
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4 Dec 2024
"A Country Home in Adobe Constr' for Dr. T.P. Martin, Taos, New Mexico" (R.M.Schindler, 1915)
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