Rolling Hills does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. The city is one of three municipalities in Los Angeles County that are gated communities.  Located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, this residential community with extensive equestrian paths includes houses designed by master architects including Paul R. Williams.

Signal Hill does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance, though the City’s Crescent Heights Historic District Specific Plan established in 2002 provides limited protection for that neighborhood.  The City can delay demolition for up to three months for historic houses located in the district, but cannot deny issuance of a demolition permit. The City […]

In-depth knowledge of architecture and design history allows LGLA to create sensitive, appropriate gardens for historic buildings.

Ray Kappe is one of the great innovators and educators in Modern architecture. His lifelong love of nature and the environment took form in designs that remain visionary to this day...

Los Angeles, like most American cities, faced urban decay in the 1960s and 1970s. Though old neighborhoods declined, some of them became the seeds for ideas, imagery, and opportunities that led on to the next step of the region’s architectural progress. Unexpectedly, Los Angeles became a focus for intellectual discourse in the 1970s; unexpectedly, it […]

Throughout the 1980s, much of the Los Angeles basin and San Fernando Valley were being built out. Open agricultural land and undeveloped hillsides had once offered a blank slate for development; in the 1980s the emphasis of development shifted to the challenge of infill projects, additions, redevelopment for denser uses, and preservation. Yet even the […]

2017 Preservation Award Recipient About View Park  Nestled in the Baldwin Hills area of unincorporated L.A. County is the View Park Historic District. Comprising nearly 1,800 properties, View Park is one of the largest National Register historic districts in California, the largest district in the U.S. designated for its association with African American history, and […]