Mid-Century Modern | Los Angeles Conservancy

Mid-Century Modern

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Gainsburg House

Lloyd Wright
In the foothills below the Angeles National Forest lies a geometrical wonder.
General Motors Training Center
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General Motors Training Center

Earl Heitschmidt
Behind the walls of a low-slung, unassuming Modern building on Riverside Drive in Burbank lies a state-of-the-art training facility for GM mechanics and salesmen.
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General Panel Residence

Konrad Wachsmann
Walter Gropius
Rudy Wolf
The only complete prefab building system created in the immediate postwar period featured an innovative framing system based on the "wedge connector," an X-shaped, cast-steel mechanism within wood-framed panels.
Gibbs & Gibbs Office Building
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Gibbs & Gibbs Office Building

Gibbs and Gibbs
Created as an advertisement as well as a building demonstrating the firm's prowess and design sensibility, the building still stands as a great example of the Long Beach firm's rich architectural legacy.
Glazier House
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Glazier House

Richard Dorman
One of Encino's loveliest Mid-Century Modern designs can be found in the Glazier House, perched above its curving hillside street.
Photo by Tom Davies

Glendale County Building

Arthur Wolfe
The 1959 building's modern design has long been recognized as an important example of mid-century office design and incorporates contrasting materials and forms as well as significant interior elements
Glendale Federal Savings
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Glendale Federal Savings, Glendale

W. A. Sarmiento
Peruvian-born architect W. A. Sarmiento designed hundreds of Modern-style bank buildings all over the country, but one of the most renowned and best-loved is right in Glendale.

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