Gregory Ain: Low-Cost Modern Housing + the Construction of a Social Landscape
Saturday, Apr 4, 20159:27 AM — Sunday, Apr 26, 201511:59 PMEDT
| WUHO Gallery Los Angeles, CA
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The architect Gregory Ain (1908–1988) was a pioneer in the development of low-cost modern housing in Los Angeles. In the 1930s and 1940s, s he developed a series of controversial housing projects, many based on the cooperative model, promoting equality and racial integration, which fused his interest in radical left-wing politics, planning, and architecture. This exhibition features five of his housing projects: Dunsmuir Flats (1937), Park Planned Homes (1946), Avenel Cooperative Housing (1948), Mar Vista Housing (1948) and Community Homes Cooperative (1946-1948, unbuilt), a racially integrated community, developed in collaboration with Garrett Eckbo, Simon Eisner, and Reginald D. Johnson. These projects stand out for their innovative approach to the construction of a “social landscape” through the integration of architecture, landscape, and planning. While promoting ideas of mutual investment in the built environment, these planned neighborhoods were meant to provide “common people” with a new kind of shared urban space. In 2011 Kyungsub Shin, a Korean artist and photographer, photographed the interior and exterior of four of Ain’s housing projects. The exhibition consists of black and white photographs by Julius Shulman, depicting the houses in their original condition, and contemporary colored photographs by Kyungsub Shin. For more exhibition info, click here.
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