Modernist Life

"In Los Angeles, where the 1950s and '60s were periods of infrastructural investment, optimism and intense growth, we are literally surrounded with architecture from the era, much of it executed at a high level. That means both that we may be lulled into a false sense of security about preserving its best buildings--because we have so many in reserve--and also that battles over their fate are emerging fast and furiously."

Christopher Hawthorne in the Los Angeles Times ponders post-war architecture as the Los Angeles Conservancy kicks off its The Sixties Turn 50 campaign.