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mayan aztec egyptian pereira’s transamerica building saarinen’s airports gehry’s 360 newbury street architecture elevates the soul shelters the body it is the form where the basic food clothing shelter meets the artistic, the spiritual the transcendent hank koning & julie eizenberg two australians who met as undergraduates voyaged off to the ucla graduate school of architecture operating out of santa monica ever since perhaps they started doing sro (single room occupancy) “affordable” housing only because it was work nobody else wanted even if so they have redefined the medium have demonstrated that even the humblest food clothing shelter |
designed for the lowliest most disposable citizens can contain a touch of the spiritual at places like ocean park 12 boyd hotel and simone hotel the first new sro hotel built in los angeles in thirty years they have taken small budgets and crafted spaces with dignity with a sense of place with a sense of home with a sense of style when budgets don’t allow air-conditioning cross-ventilation is designed instead of surveillance cameras open vistas enhancing security, comfort, community california modern architecture style & shelter for all the first architects designed for kings had unlimited budgets hank koning and julie eizenberg have sheltered more with less |
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