Vintage photos of mid-century architecture are now viewable online
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibraryCBS headquarters (designed by William Lescaze), Hollywood, California
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibraryFrey residence (designed by John Porter Clark and Albert Frey), Palm Springs, California
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibrarySturges residence (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), Brentwood, California
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibraryPalm Springs High School (designed by Emerson Stewart Williams), Palm Springs, California
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibraryPalm Springs High School (designed by Emerson Stewart Williams), Palm Springs, California
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibraryReunion house (designed by Richard Neutra), Silver Lake, California
Photography: Fritz Block; image via USC Digital LibraryRollé residence (designed by Pierre Koenig), Brentwood, California
Photography: Pierre Koenig; image via USC Digital LibrarySquire residence (designed by Pierre Koenig), Glendale, California
Photography: Pierre Koenig; image via USC Digital LibraryStahl residence (designed by Pierre Koenig), Hollywood, California
Photography: Pierre Koenig; image via USC Digital LibraryKoenig residence (designed by Pierre Koenig), Brentwood, California
Photography: Pierre Koenig; image via USC Digital Library1 of 11
More than 1,000 vintage photos of American mid-century architecture are now available to view online in all their Modernist glory.
The University of South California (USC) has digitised collections of images taken by architect Pierre Koenig and Fritz Block, owner of a colour slide company as well as an architect in his own right.
Photographs include shots of buildings designed by leading architects of the Modernist movement, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Pierre Koenig himself.
The Sturges residence by Wright, the old CBS headquarters in Hollywood – now a NeueHouse – and Koenig’s own California home are just some of the structures captured.
See the full selection in the USC Digital Library.
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