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Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
Allyn E. Morris Home and Studio
Image View:
View of entry area, from southwest
Creator:
Allyn E. Morris (American architect, 1922-2009)
Location:
site: Silver Lake (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Date:
1957 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Modernist; Modern; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
studio (work space)
Work Type 2:
house
Classification:
architecture
Material:
glass; concrete; steel; brick
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; Artists' studios; domestic architecture
Description:
Morris is one of the architects included in Alan Hess' "Forgotten Modern: California Houses 1940-1970." Morris was a Pasadena-based mid-century architect inspired by R.W. Schindler, and designed some of the more structurally innovative homes in LA, including a duplex on Silverwood Terrace (Silver Lake), and the Bubeck House in Eagle Rock. Other notable Morris designs include his own 1957 studio-home in Silver Lake and the nearby 1962 Murakami house, where he used sharply defined steel frames to create bold cantilevers and complex vertical and horizontal spaces. (Source: Architects Newspaper; http://www.archpaper .com/)
Image Description:
The entry level is relatively small (and flat), at the top of a steep slope. The rest of the house is cantilevered over the slope.
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:
1A1-MAE-S-A2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Allyn E. Morris Home and Studio