Marc Whipple 5/20/22 Marc Whipple 5/20/22

Iconic Movie Houses - Part I

Each of our designs is inspired by the lives of those who will work, live, and play in them. The lives that occupy the work, inspire the body of work. Architectural spaces hold the stories of our lives, and similarly, movie settings are containers for unfolding storylines.

Marc Whipple 8/28/20 Marc Whipple 8/28/20

Tour Dalí’s Home - Surreal!

The 1931 painting, The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dalí is the one most of us can identify as Surrealist. And we might remember his startling spider-leg mustache. But who knew that he also designed a sofa inspired by the red lips of 20s film star Mae West?

Marc Whipple 8/10/20 Marc Whipple 8/10/20

Alexander Calder - Living as Art

Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) changed the art world by introducing movement into sculpture.

Marc Whipple 7/29/18 Marc Whipple 7/29/18

Modernist Mies van der Rohe

All modernist architects owe a debt to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a German born American architect (1886 – 1969).

Marc Whipple 6/1/18 Marc Whipple 6/1/18

Ode to the Hills

Whipple Russell Architects has built many houses over the years in both Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills above Sunset Boulevard.

Marc Whipple 9/20/17 Marc Whipple 9/20/17

Remembering Gin D. Wong LA Architect

Though not well known to the general public, Gin Wong, who died this month at age 94, was the creative eye behind several iconic postwar Southern California buildings.

Marc Whipple 7/6/17 Marc Whipple 7/6/17

Remembering Sir Norman Foster

British architect and Pritzker Prize winner Norman Foster was born in a working class area of Manchester in 1935.

Marc Whipple 4/9/16 Marc Whipple 4/9/16

Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Concept

Earlier this year the George Sturges house in Brentwood, California, was put up for auction at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) with bidding beginning at $2.5 m.

Marc Whipple 2/10/16 Marc Whipple 2/10/16

Hawaii's Mid-Century Modernist

Hawaii may not spring to mind when considering mid-century architecture, but the islands were part of the post WWII building boom and, Honolulu particularly, is a good place to explore tropical modernism.

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Remembering Ceramicist Harrison McIntosh

Harrison McIntosh, California modernist potter and sculptor, passed away this week at the age of 102.

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Eiffel Tower Ushers in the Modern Era

The wrought iron lattice work tower located at one end of the Parc du Champ de Mars was named for Gustave Eiffel, the engineer whose company designed and built it.