Esther McCoy
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No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.—Reyner Banham.
los angeles, ca
Joined May 2013
"el legado de Esther McCoy se mantiene vivo".the legacy of Esther McCoy lives on.
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Fue una pionera de la crítica arquitectónica. La reputación internacional del modernismo de la costa californiana le debe mucho a la periodista e historiadora de arquitectura, Esther McCoy. No solo...
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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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Richard Neutra (Esther McCoy, 1960. published in Italian by il Saggiatore, designed by Anita Klinz).image courtesy spazio milano
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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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model, Archie Lamm house, Los Angeles. unbuilt (Gregory Ain, 1929).image courtesy Archives of American Art
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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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Laughlin Theater, Long Beach (Irving Gill, 1914-15; destroyed, 1933).photo: Winstead Photo, 1921.image courtesy Los Angeles Public Library
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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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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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Kirk house, Seattle (Paul Hayden Kirk, 1944).photo: Dearborn-Massar.image courtesy University of Washington Libraries
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The Bachelor's Haberdashery, Los Angeles (J.R. Davidson, 1929).photo: Will Connell.image courtesy Esther McCoy papers, AAA
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Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design.
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David and Gladys Wright House, Phoenix, AZ (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950).photo: William Clift, 2015
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Tower Motors/Lincoln Mercury Showroom, Glendale (John Lautner, 1947-48).photo: Dr. Block Color Productions
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Herman Miller showroom, Los Angeles.(Charles and Ray Eames, 1949).photo: Dr. Block Color Productions
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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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"A Country Home in Adobe Constr' for Dr. T.P. Martin, Taos, New Mexico" (R.M.Schindler, 1915)
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