LA - Daly Street Lofts Viewing (05.17.08, 05.18.08, 05.24.08, 05.25.08)

Please Join Joseph Giovannini for a Viewing of Daly Street Lofts:
Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18 and 24-25, Noon to 6:00 pm

Designer Walk-Through: 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm, All Four Days

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture L.A. at the Schindler House, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and the Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, and are sponsoring a public showing of the Daly Street Lofts in Lincoln Heights. Designed by contemporary New York-based critic and architect Joseph Giovannini, these lofts will be open for two weekends, May 17-18 and 24-25 from noon to 6 pm. This is a rare opportunity for the public to view an example of contemporary architectural praxis before the lofts are rented and occupied.

Noted architectural critic Joseph Giovannini has written extensively on contemporary architecture and design. His project, Daly Street Lofts, is an adaptive re-use of an existing 23,000 square foot telephone trucking garage as live-work lofts. The existing 1930s building was a column-free shell, bow-truss concrete structure. Giovannini employed drawing techniques such as forced perspective and axonometric projection together with anamorphic projections to bring complexity to the spaces and engage the interplay of two and three dimensions.

The original building had a Spanish Revival façade and an industrial interior. Six massive wood trusses subdivided the interior into seven equal bays. The serial nature of the bays, however, belied a differentiation that existed throughout the building. Instead of playing to the uniformity by designing identical lofts, Giovannini cultivated the differences that existed in the original structure. Each loft, bounded by walls parallel to the trusses, is cellular in nature and responds differently to the highly variable conditions of the environment, the program and building codes.

The Daly Street Lofts are located at 2450 Daly Street, between North Broadway and Pasadena Avenue, in Lincoln Heights. Hours are May 17-18 and 24-25 from 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Admission is $2.00

MAK Center for Art and Architecture
at the Schindler House
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
323 651 1510 phone
323 651 2340 fax
visit: www.MAKcenter.org
contact: office@makcenter.org