Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Ralph Rapson, a modernist architect who designed the Greenbelt House for the 1940s Case Study House program in Los Angeles.Ralph's passing represents the end of an era, not just for Minnesota's design community, but also for American architecture.Many of the houses became architectural icons in Los Angeles, immortalized by photographer Julius Shulman.His final plan featured layers of glass panels and wood forming a screen between the lobby inside and the outside elements. But the wood construction didn't survive the test of the harsh Minnesota winters and was eventually removed. And although the entire structure was torn down a few years ago, the interior design of the theater was re-created in the new building.
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